Mother Camp - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mother Camp write by Esther Newton. This book was released on 1979-05-15. Mother Camp available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For two years Ester 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 drag queens, interviewing informants whose trust she had earned and compiling a lively, first-hand ethnographic account of the culture of female impersonators. Mother Camp explores the distinctions that drag queens make among themselves as performers, the various kinds of night clubs and acts they depend on for a living, and the social organization of their work. A major part of the book deals with the symbolic geography of male and female styles, as enacted in the homosexual concept of "drag" (sex role transformation) and "camp," an important humor system cultivated by the drag queens themselves. "Newton's fascinating book shows how study of the extraordinary can brilliantly illuminate the ordinary—that social-sexual division of personality, appearance, and activity we usually take for granted."—Jonathan Katz, author of Gay American History "A trenchant statement of the social force and arbitrary nature of gender roles."—Martin S. Weinberg, Contemporary Sociology
Female Impersonation
Female Impersonation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Impersonation write by Carol-Anne Tyler. This book was released on 2013-05-24. Female Impersonation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A feminist and psychoanalytic investigation of the contemporary fascination with impersonation. The questions raised by female impersonations in a wide range of contemporary media are considered.
Drag
Drag - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drag write by Roger Baker. This book was released on 1995. Drag available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise history of the drag tradition—from 13th century to today Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of transvestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan. In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens. Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelling appearances in underground John Waters films. Music, too, has been profoundly influenced by drag sensibility, from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Rocky Horror Picture Show to Boy George and RuPaul (the self-proclaimed Supermodel of the World). Tracing drag tradition from the Golden Age of stage transvestism during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in England to the current quasi-drag inclinations of American grunge bands, Drag is an entertaining overview of this popular and complex medium.
The Female-impersonators
The Female-impersonators - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Female-impersonators write by Ralph Werther. This book was released on 1922. The Female-impersonators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Female Impersonation
Female Impersonation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Impersonation write by Carol-Anne Tyler. This book was released on 2013-05-24. Female Impersonation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A feminist and psychoanalytic investigation of the contemporary fascination with impersonation. The questions raised by female impersonations in a wide range of contemporary media are considered.
