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... of incipient homosexuality nor a feminist move; rather, it is good old-fashioned patriarchy dressed up in drag. I conclude by offering a symptomatic reading of the popularity of the thesis that Nietzsche was gay, arguing that this reflects our own twenty-first-century tendency to read gender deviance as only...

..., demonstrating the continued need for camp spectatorship precisely in the attempt to banish it. © 2017 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2017 Caitlyn Jenner I Am Cait camp transgender drag disidentification reality television One night in 2015...

... an action that will signal the performance has started. The artist, Xandra Ibarra, emerges nearly naked, wearing only a plastic flesh-colored breast plate and a pair of yellow high heels. She drags behind her a giant nylon bag filled with the accoutrements of white womanhood: a pair of pink ballet slippers...

... influential account of drag in her books Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter. In the latter, the gender-bending performances documented in Jennie Livingston’s film Paris Is Burning are cited as evidence that drag reveals the inherent fiction of gender. 2 In his counterreading of the film, Bersani...

...” have restricted feminist understandings of gender and sexuality. Using the cross-dressing performance of drag as her example, she develops the concept of gender performativity to address the ways the rules of gender...

...Carole-Anne Tyler Copyright © 1989 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1989 Works Cited Ackroyd Peter . Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession . New York : Simon , 1979 . Badinter Elisabeth . L'Un est...

..., socially expressed in Wilde's incarceration, becomes a life/death break in his writing - the wound that decapitates the natural and delivers it into the hands of the queer who desires it. Now, in the nineteenth century, this queer compound led by inverted brides and Oscar Wilde in drag as a dancing girl...

... Queer Theory and Performance: Rewriting Shame through Irony, Parody, and Drag Bush v. Gore is surely not the Court’s fi rst time and almost certainly not its last. It may...

... plans. We first meet Stella when one day, while Barbara is working at the rural pediatric clinic to which she has been banished, she is rushed into the clinic, almost dragged in by two policemen. We see the group from behind, the cops dragging a crumpled Stella down a tract of hallway. Stella seems...

... : Manchester UP , 1990 . 46 – 65 . Merritt Henry . “ Biographical Note .” Notes and Queries 28 ( 1981 ): 305 – 06 . Miller Nancy K. “ The ‘I's' in Drag: The Sex of Recollection .” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 22 ( 1981 ): 47 – 57 . Nash Stanley...

... and scatter it. It would multiply not judgments but signs of existence; it would summon them, drag them from their sleep. Perhaps it would invent them sometimes—all the better. [. . .] It would bear the lightning of possible storms. (qtd. in Mad 117 ) 6 The importance of Foucaultian projects...

..., Masquerade Gay male masquerade, then, would be a mode of appropriating and articulating the gap between masculinity understood in heterosexist terms-as being bounded by heterosexual object-choice - and masculinity understood differently. In this, gay masquerade would appear to pair itself with drag, or more...

... in sex, inducing Tony and Daniel, for example, to displace their masculinity by claiming the feminine position - a displacement which involved using gendered subject positions to enact a homosexual appropriation of heterosexuality. Here we see two friends who worked the streets together as drag queen...

..., that it took, among other things, a film sequence in a kitchen to bring Deleuze to produce the concept of the time-image: I am referring to that sequence in Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D . in which the young maid wakes up in the morning and drags herself into the kitchen to begin her daily chores, a sequence...

... that a kind of feminist theorizing eschews (because the drag of race pulls feminism’s objective force off course) and perhaps fears; she presents a constant problem for feminist thought. It is apparent, at this juncture in her essay, that Hammonds has two concerns. The first is to access lesbian/gay...

...: The Politics of Gay Drag.” Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories . Ed. Diana Fuss. New York: Routledge, 1991 . 32 –70. Warner, Michael. The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics,and the Ethics of Queer Life . New York: The Free Press, 1999 . Weed, Elizabeth. “The More Things Change.” Weed...

... offers the following distinction between transvestite and transsexual and drag queen: A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball, and that’s the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag. I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up...

... as one of Robinson’s case studies] drives colleagues and loved ones crazy with his nit-picking and his inability to let things go because to him nothing ever feels finished. Colleagues complain that savoring workaholics drag their feet because they have to dot every “i” and cross every “t.” When others...

... and psychological masculinity that affirms the proximity of the two authors to Judith Butler rather than to Bersani: the muscles of the gay man as a form of drag. But mad identification is something other than parody. 1 The enhancement and excess, to which the term mad refers here, do not involve...

... that has no fixed content, but which operates as a drag on the wish to have or be everything, as well as on illusions of mastery, knowledge, and control. It exerts its own pressures, always in some relation to what the organism-psyche is in the process of integrating and abjecting. Unmasking gender...