The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781560232841)

The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomenon of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative collection of original essays explores the possibilities, limitations, ironies, and controversies surrounding men who perform as women to an audience that knows the truth but celebrates the illusion. The book's contributors call on extensive backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, theater, literature--even military studies--and use a variety of approaches to address common themes and genres of presentation, performance, and style in a wide range of historical settings and cultures.

Author: Lisa Underwood
ISBN-10: 1560232846
ISBN-13: 9781560232841
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2004
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.42w x 0.94d