Reframing Drag: Beyond Subversion and the Status Quo

ISBN-13: 9781032085081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str.

Kayte Stokoe

Opis

Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American, queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Drag: How Queer?  2. Performing Femininity, Performing Feminism: Anglo-American Feminist Responses to Drag Performance  3. French Feminism and the Beauvoirian Concept of ‘Masculine Protest’  4. Exploring Gender Non-Conformity and Proto-Queer Parodic Strategies in the Work of Rachilde, Virginia Woolf, and Monique Wittig  Conclusion: Reframing Drag – Beyond Binaries

O autorze

Kayte Stokoe is Teaching Assistant in French Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.