Female Impersonation

Author : Carol-Anne Tyler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135245401
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Impersonation written by Carol-Anne Tyler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Esther Newton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226577600
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother Camp written by Esther Newton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1979-05-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Roger Baker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814712541
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drag written by Roger Baker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Roger Baker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814712533
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drag written by Roger Baker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lisa Underwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1560232846
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drag Queen Anthology written by Lisa Underwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, literatureeven military studiesand 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 : Ralph Werther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female-impersonators written by Ralph Werther and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Earl Lind
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 151329847X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Female-Impersonators written by Earl Lind and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female-Impersonators (1922) is an autobiography by Earl Lind. Accompanied by an introduction by Dr. Alfred W. Herzog, Lind’s autobiography―intended for a clinical audience―has been recognized as a pioneering work in the history of transgender literature. Throughout his life, Lind was forced to justify and defend his existence from puritanical authorities who refused to even recognize the reality of his identity as an androgyne. In this third installment of his autobiographical trilogy, he focuses on the community of androgynes or “female-impersonators” he joined when he moved from Connecticut to New York City. “I was predestined to an unusual role in the great drama we call ‘life.’ I was brought into the world as one of the rare humans who possess a strong claim, on anatomic grounds as well as psychic, to membership in both the recognized sexes. I was foreordained to live part of my life as man and part as woman.” Situating his own identity within the history of transgender oppression, Lind makes the case for recognizing the presence of androgynes in all human societies. Ever since he was a child, Lind identified as feminine and was keenly aware of his homosexual desires, gaining a reputation among the local boys and soon turning to girls for friendship and understanding. In a world that saw androgynes as both corrupt and willfully different, Lind sought to increase understanding and to explain through scientific, historical, and personal evidence why his identity was congenital, and therefore natural. In this final installment of his trilogy of autobiographical works, Lind focuses on the community of androgynes he joined at New York’s Columbia Hall, a well-known brothel and gay bar on the Bowery. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Earl Lind’s The Female-Impersonators is a classic work of transgender literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : F. Michael Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drag! written by F. Michael Moore and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews male and female impersonation from Elizabethan theater to modern movies, focusing on the performers and their characters. Considers such aspects as the British tradition, Peter Pan, American vaudeville, drag as comedy, male impersonators of female movie stars. Highly illustrated in black and

Author : Esther Newton
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326120
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead Made Me Gay written by Esther Newton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of essays by a pioneering queer anthropologist./div

Author : Clare Sears
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376199
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arresting Dress written by Clare Sears and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating over one hundred arrests before the century’s end. Over forty U.S. cities passed similar laws during this time, yet little is known about their emergence, operations, or effects. Grounded in a wealth of archival material, Arresting Dress traces the career of anti-cross-dressing laws from municipal courtrooms and codebooks to newspaper scandals, vaudevillian theater, freak-show performances, and commercial “slumming tours.” It shows that the law did not simply police normative gender but actively produced it by creating new definitions of gender normality and abnormality. It also tells the story of the tenacity of those who defied the law, spoke out when sentenced, and articulated different gender possibilities.