The Routledge Companion to Drag
eBook - ePub

The Routledge Companion to Drag

  1. 552 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Routledge Companion to Drag

About this book

The Routledge Companion to Drag offers a comprehensive academic exploration of drag as a global, historical, and cultural phenomenon.

This volume examines drag beyond its popularised media image, tracing its diverse practices across time and geography. Chapters address key themes such as the history, herstory, and theirstory of drag, its representation on television, activism, and performance traditions from the Victorian and Elizabethan stage to contemporary contexts. With contributions that extend beyond the global North, the book foregrounds intersectional perspectives on race, ethnicity, the body, class, and sexuality, while engaging with issues such as the AIDS pandemic and cultural politics. Rejecting uniformity, it embraces the complexity and multiplicity of drag cultures worldwide.

The Routledge Companion to Drag is ideal for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, and Politics, and provides an essential resource for those seeking critical insights into modern and historical drag practices and its discourse.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781032409542
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781040714621
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. Section I The state of drag: at your own peril
  11. Section II Drag activism: changing times, changing lives
  12. Section III Histories: of kings, queens, and in-betweens
  13. Section IV Drag epistemologies: it takes one to know one
  14. Section V Bodies/post bodies: werking beyond the wig
  15. Section VI Drag and postcolonialism: Giving face
  16. Section VII Drag and media: Watching me, watching you
  17. Section VIII Drag as/and form: It’s giving
  18. Index

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