num_pages: 346
description: Dispels the myth that drag kings are simply women doing drag, presenting enlightening essays that address gender, sexuality, and feminism. Offers cultural and political insights on the international growth and development of drag king troupes and communities. Co- published as Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 43, nos 3/4 2002.Contents:Grease cowboy fever: or, the making of Johnny T. / K. Bradford --Me boy / Neeve "Amy" Neevel --"I am the man!": performing gender and other incongruities / Jay Sennett and Sarah Bay-Cheng --Making kings / Colleen Ayoup and Julie Podmore --Lesbian drag kings and the feminine embodiment of the masculine / Steven P. Schacht --Capital drag: kinging in Washington, DC / Jennifer Lyn Patterson --Kinging in the heartland: or, the power of marginality / Thomas Piontek --Walk like a man: enactments and embodiments of masculinity and the potential for multiple genders / Sheila "Dragon Fly" Koenig --Drag kings in the new wave: gender performance and participation / Kim Surkan --A voice from the audience / Ann Tweedy --One body, some genders: drag performances and technologies / Alana Kumbier --Drag king magic: performing/becoming the other / Kathryn Rosenfeld --Erotic arguments and persuasive acts: discourses of desire and the rhetoric of female-to-male drag / Tara Pauliny --Seeing double, thinking twice: the Toronto drag kings and (re- )articulations of masculinity / Jean Bobby Noble --Whose drag is it anyway?: drag kings and monarchy in the UK / Annabelle Willox --Drag kings "down under": an archive and introspective of a few Aussie blokes / Vicki Crowley --Personae / Pierre Dalpé --Eugene does his nails / Stephanie Rogerson --Autoportrait / Aaron Kimberly --Drag king workshop advertisement / Tania Hammidi --Performing masculinities / Melinda Hubman.
language: English
title: The Drag King Anthology
titlecomplete: The Drag King Anthology
genres: Queer
ratings_count: 14
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Transgender/Genderqueer
publisher: Harrington Park Pr