Drag

Drag

A British History

Bloomfield, Jacob

University of California Press

10/2024

272

Mole

9780520409651

15 a 20 dias

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Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Old Mother Riley and the Modern Dame
2 Splinters: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen on the Interwar Stage
3 Danny La Rue: Conservative Drag in the "Permissive Society"
4 Skirting the Censor: Drag and the Censorship of the British Theater, 1939-1968

Epilogue: How Queer Is Drag?

Notes
Bibliography
Index
British history of drag performance;male cross dressing in England;theater studies;modern Britain;female impersonation;impersonators;humor;entertainment;gender and sexuality;subculture;censorship;social and cultural attitudes;gender variance