The Drag Queen Anthology: the Absolutely Fabulous But Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators

New York: Harrington Park Press, 2004. Octavo in black and white wrapprs (white spine); 240 pages: illustrations (some color); 22 cm.; faintest signs of wear to wrappers; o/w wrappers are clean and bright; pages are clean, crisp, bright, and free of marks and creases; edges of leaves are clean; binding is tight and square; a well-cared-for copy. Very good(+) to near fine copy. . Paperback. ISBN: 1560232854

In English. Series: Journal of homosexuality Volume 46, numbers 3/4, 2004.Contents: The Absolutely fabulous but flawlessly customary world of drag queens and female impersonators / Steven P. Schacht, Lisa Underwood -- A lovely war: male to female cross-dressing and Canadian military entertainment in World War II / Laurel Halladay -- Wigs, laughter, and subversion: Charles Busch and strategies of drag performance / Richard Niles -- The Beauty and the beast: reflections about the socio-historical and subcultural context of drag queens and "Tunten" in Berlin / Carsten Balzer -- Moffies, artists, and queens: race and the production of South African gay male drag / Amanda Lock Swarr -- Ad/dressing the nation: drag and authenticity in postapartheid South Africa / Jennifer Spruill -- Chicks with dicks, men in dresses: what it means to be a drag queen / Verta Taylor, Leila J. Rupp -- "Let the drag race begin:" The rewards of becoming a queen / Steven J. Hopkins -- Transformance: reading the gospel in drag / Jeffrey Q. McCune -- Kind of a drag: gender, race, and ambivalence in "The Birdcage" and "To Wong Foo, thanks for everything! Julie Newmar" / Mary Kirk -- Racializing white drag / Ragan Rhyne -- Balancing acts: drag queens, gender and faith / Constance R. Sullivan-Blum -- A Comparative analysis of hijras and drag queens: The subversive possibilities and limits of parading effeminacy and negotiating masculinity / Sandeep Bakshi -- Beyond the boundaries of the classroom: teaching about gender and sexuality at a drag show / Steven P. Schacht.