Drag Queens And Beauty Queens
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Drag Queens And Beauty Queens
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Author : Laurie Greene
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-18
Drag Queens And Beauty Queens written by Laurie Greene and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-18 with Social Science categories.
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.
Beauty Queens On The Global Stage
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Author : Colleen Ballerion Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Beauty Queens On The Global Stage written by Colleen Ballerion Cohen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Education categories.
Modern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in the 20th century pageants and contests have spread across the entire world from Nepal to Tierra Del Fuego. Why are women (and sometimes men in drag) parading on stage such a universally appealing spectacle, attracting an audience in the billions? This book is the first global comparison of pageants from different parts of the world, at the ways each contest is both intensely local and unique, and simultaneously global and remarkable repetitious. The authors use the latest tools of feminist, ethnographic, and literary scholarship to unpack and interpret one of the greatest and most universal spectacles of modern times.
Diary Of A Drag Queen
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Author : Crystal Rasmussen
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-02-07
Diary Of A Drag Queen written by Crystal Rasmussen and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020 Life's a drag... Why not be a queen? 'Stories like the one where you shagged a 79-year-old builder and knocked over his sister's ashes while feeding him a Viagra. Or the time you crashed your car because you were giving a hand job in barely moving traffic and took your eye off the car in front. That's the kind of dinner-party ice-breaker I'm talking about.' Northern, working-class and shagging men three times her age, Crystal writes candidly about her search for 'the one'; sleeping with a VIP in an attempt to become a world famous journalist; getting hired and fired by a well-known fashion magazine; being torn between losing weight and gorging on KFC; and her need for constant sexual satisfaction (and where that takes her). Charting her day-to-day adventures over the course of a year, we encounter tucks, twists and sucks, heinous overspending and endless nights spent sprinting from problem to problem in a full face of make-up. This is a place where the previously unspeakable becomes the commendable - a unique portrayal of the queer experience. (c) 2019, Crystal Rasmussen (P) 2019 Penguin Audio
The Makeup Of Rupaul S Drag Race
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Author : Jim Daems
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-10-13
The Makeup Of Rupaul S Drag Race written by Jim Daems and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Start your engines--for the fun, controversy and life lessons of RuPaul's Drag Race and its spinoff, RuPaul's DragU. This international collection of original essays critically examines the shows' representation of drag within the contexts of the reality TV genre and LGBTQ issues. Contributors focus on the structure of the two programs, the subversive nature of drag itself, the treatment of trans contestants, the issues of race, the language and the shows' handling of LGBTQ political issues. A comprehensive discussion is provided of the shows' premise, the host and the contestants through six seasons of Drag Race and the three seasons of DragU.
Bookended By Beauty Queens
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Author : Victoria Marshal
language : en
Publisher: Before the Fall Books
Release Date : 2012-02
Bookended By Beauty Queens written by Victoria Marshal and has been published by Before the Fall Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with Fiction categories.
Angie Palmer likes her life just the way it is-private. She has no desire to entangle herself in complex friendships, and her relationship with her two beauty queen sisters is safely distant. When disaster strikes Angie takes her Grandmother into her home. Life with Grandma comes with a world of changes, and new friends, including Val, a drag queen with hopes of being the next US-Gay Beauty Queen. Angie is determined to keep Val at a distance but Val has an instinct for knowing Angie's heart. Just as Angie gets comfortable with Grandma living with her, a budding friendship with Val, and a new romantic interest, everything takes an unexpected turn. Val is the victim of a violent crime and ends up in a coma. Angie begins a struggle against Val's family who wants to remove their son from life support. Suddenly Angie's private life becomes very public, and her world becomes a media circus. She is caught in a clash between religious beliefs and gay rights. Through many twists and turns, Angie discovers a new appreciation for family, friends, and love. In the end, Angie learns that a life filled with people to care about is never too crowded.
Beauty Queens
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Author : Candace Sherk Savage
language : en
Publisher: New York : Abbeville Press Publishers
Release Date : 1998
Beauty Queens written by Candace Sherk Savage and has been published by New York : Abbeville Press Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Beauty contests categories.
Beauty pageants have been a distinctive aspect of pop culture throughout the twentieth century. This affectionate and witty chronicle of beauty contests over the decades offers the combined pleasures of an engaging text and a wealth of photographs depicting beauty queens past and present in all their glittering glamour. Candace Savage traces the evolution of the beauty pageant from its early days as a slightly scandalous display of feminine self-confidence to a much mocked sexist spectacle to its recent international popularity, particularly in the Third World. In 1996 the annual Miss Universe telecast was seen by an estimated 600 million people in sixty countries around the world. How did this quirky custom manage to become such a major cultural institution? When and where did the idea originate? (P.T. Barnum seems at least partly responsible). And why have so many women eagerly participated as both spectators and contestants? Emphasizing the glory years between 1920 and 1970, Beauty Queens offers entertaining - and sometimes startling - answers to these and other questions while exploring every aspect of the beauty contest's curious history. Anyone who has ever sniffled as the winner wept tears of joy will savour this lighthearted tribute. AUTHOR: Candace Savage is the author of numerous internationally acclaimed books, including Wolves, Cowgirls, Mother Nature, Aurora, and Bird Brains. Her work has been honoured by both the American and Canadian Library Associations as well as by the Canadian Science Writers Association and the Rachel Carson Institute. 100 illustrations, 20 in color, 90 in quadtone.
The Queen
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language : en
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The Queen written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Documentary films categories.
More than 40 years before *RuPaul's Drag Race*, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. The film takes us backstage to kiki with the contestants as they rehearse, throw shade, and transform into their drag personas in the lead-up to the big event. Organized by LGBTQ icon and activist Flawless Sabrina, the competition boasted a star-studded panel of judges including Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, and Terry Southern...But perhaps most memorable is an epic diatribe calling out the pageant's bias delivered by Crystal LaBeija, who would go on to form the influential House of LaBeija, heavily featured in *Paris Is Burning* (1990). A vibrant piece of queer history, THE QUEEN can now be seen in full resplendence thanks to a new restoration from the original camera negative. *"[A] fantastic time capsule from 1968...This documentary is a fascinating piece of history, captured in a style that is very much of-and ahead of-its time." - Gary M. Kramer, **San Francisco Bay Times***
Legends Of Drag
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Author : Harry James Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2022-06-21
Legends Of Drag written by Harry James Hanson and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-21 with Photography categories.
A tribute to the groundbreaking drag icons who helped pave the way for the queens of today Drag has officially transcended the underground and exploded into the mainstream. Queens have more visibility than ever, and it’s been hard won through decades of perseverance, imagination, and intergenerational support within local drag communities. It’s time to honor the queens who paved the way for the new generation of drag and are still carrying out their work today. To create Legends of Drag, a photo book and archive of living drag history, authors Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus traveled coast to coast, visiting 16 cities to meet 80 legendary entertainers who shared boundless wisdom and powerful anecdotes from their lives. These queens are featured in stunning portraits shot on location and styled with unique floral elements.
Rupaul S Drag Race And The Shifting Visibility Of Drag Culture
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Author : Niall Brennan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-25
Rupaul S Drag Race And The Shifting Visibility Of Drag Culture written by Niall Brennan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-25 with Performing Arts categories.
This book identifies and analyzes the ways in which RuPaul’s Drag Race has reshaped the visibility of drag culture in the US and internationally, as well as how the program has changed understandings of reality TV. This edited volume illustrates how drag has become a significant aspect of LGBTQ experience and identity globally through RuPaul’s Drag Race, and how the show has reformed a media landscape in which competition and reality itself are understood as given. Taking on lenses addressing race, ethnicity, geographical origin, cultural identity, physicality and body image, and participation in drag culture across the globe, this volume offers critical, non-traditional, and first-hand perspectives on drag culture.
Beauty Queens
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Author : Libba Bray
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2011-05-24
Beauty Queens written by Libba Bray and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-24 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.