Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America

For two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens--homosexual men who make...
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Author: Esther Newton
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Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America by Newton, Esther

Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America

$102.58

Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America

$102.58
Author: Esther Newton
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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: Esther Newton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/15/1979
Pages: 158
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.03w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780226577609

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