Dragging

Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-43952-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life is an assemblage of fragments that collectively tell stories about a diverse group of artists and activists for whom drag serves as inspiration, method, object, and aim.

Methodologically grounded in ethnography, Dragging incorporates auto-theoretical material that lays bare the intimacies of research, teaching, and loving, as well as their painful failures. Drag is more than gender impersonation, and it is more than resistance to norms. It is productively messy and ambivalent, and in these and other ways can serve to attune us to political and aesthetic alternatives to the increasingly widespread desire to be led.

One of very few books about drag by an anthropologist, and using a uniquely personal approach, Dragging is an ethnography of artists and activists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGlotten, Shaka

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Preface I don’t know how to finish this book Chicago/Chica Rose A first note on dragging "The Master’s Tool": Mysti Seriou Sly What had happened was I (the subbasement) The Bride of Palestine: Raafat Hattab In the drag of queer life What had happened was II (on not getting started) Siegessäule drag show Patsy l’Amour laLove and Luxuria Rosenberg Warbear Displacements: Liad Hussein Kantorowicz What had happened was III (sick and sauna) Sissy Svetlana Pall Mall Trash Deluxe: Kay P. Rinha "The Most Hated Woman in Israel": Natali Cohen Vaxberg Galina Port Des Bras/Gil Dinner with Ms. Davis: Vaginal Davis Maxxx Pleasure Nico’s manifesto What had happened was IV (heartbroken) Just off Whatsapp The drag class: In Esther’s wake Remember the Time: Jed(i)mmanence X Afterword Notes Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY. They are the author of Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality and dozens of chapters and articles. Their work has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation, and Data & Society.