For two years (1965-1966) anthropologist Newton did field research in the world of drag queens--homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton spent time in the noisy bars, the chaotic dressing rooms, and the cheap apartments and hotels that make up the lives of dr…
by Kulick, Don
fromWorlds of desire
This study seeks to locate an emergent tradition of queer feminist camp within two novels of Sapphic modernism. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) and Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) both dramatize their own contingency upon exclusionary cultural categories and aesthetic norms, high…
This dissertation is about the cultural work that musicians and dancers do through gendered dance performance to produce place-specific senses of identity. Focusing on performers—musicians and dancers--in Malang, a provincial section in the region of east Java, Indonesia, I argu…
