Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground

The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to...
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Author: Laurie Greene
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Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground by Greene, Laurie

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground

$68.99

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground

$68.99
Author: Laurie Greene
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss'd America drag pageant.

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss'd America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now that Rupaul's Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss'd America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways.

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss'd America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.

Author: Laurie Greene
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 12/18/2020
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781978813861

About the Author
LAURIE GREENE is an associate professor of anthropology at Stockton University in New Jersey, where she has taught since 1986. She is the founder and chair of the LGBTQ Youth Safe Space Initiative at Stockton University and an advocate for the local LGBTQ community.

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