The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators Book

Preface (Judith Lorber)

Acknowledgments

The Absolutely Fabulous But Flawlessly Customary World of Drag Queens and

Female Impersonators (Steven P. Schacht and 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 the 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 Post-Apartheid South

Africa (Jennifer Spruill)

Chicks with Dicks, Men in Dresses: What it Means to be a Drag Queen (Verta

Taylor and 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, Jr.)

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)

Index

Reference Notes Included