Reviews for Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America

The average rating for Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-04-17 00:00:00 Wm Essex I mean, social anthropology is always problematic, but a book about female impersonators/drag queens in the mid sixties, which was published in 1972, fuckin come on. AWESOME. I'm pretty invested in trans history and what being trans looks like now vs. what it looked like seventy-five, fifty, twenty five years ago, so I was mainly invested in what this book had to say about shaping trans identities- like the roots of my movement, basically. And some if it was in there, which was awesome to read. It's weird how- like lots of other movements- gay boys and girls and gender variant folks used to be oppressed as hell all over the place, so they hung out and got drunk together all the time- and how, now, subidentity groups have splintered off into their own tiny little interest/identity groups. Grr. I have a lot to say about this. I want to read more on trans history, but it doesn't seem to be too out there.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-21 00:00:00 Omed Ahim An incredibly important ethnography, Newton offers a fascinating insight into the culture of female impersonators in the late 1960s. Packed with interviews and observations, it really made me want an updated version, perhaps comparing the current culture to the past culture. Great read, critical piece of historiography.