Strippers, Drag Queens, and Beauty Pageants

Author: Shannon Taylor
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595448807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
We've all had our moments of discontent with beauty procedures. As women, we've learned secrets from our girlfriends, mothers and sisters. On occasion, we've experimented on our own to learn the tricks to beauty success. I'm sure every woman has funny stories to share about their trials and tribulations with beauty. I've learned secrets from beauty pageant contestants, strippers and drag queens. I've enveloped myself in duct tape, argued with my father over jewelry and plucked more hair on my body than anyone should ever pluck. Each beauty tip has a humorous story that will make you laugh and you might just learn something new.

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens

Author: Laurie Greene
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978813880
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss’d America drag pageant. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now that Rupaul’s Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss’d America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss’d America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.

From Drag Queens to Leathermen

Author: Rusty Barrett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190675578
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
This book examines gendered language use in six gay male subcultures: drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys, barebackers, and leathermen. Within each subculture, unique patterns of language use challenge normative assumptions about gender and sexual identity. Rusty Barrett's analyses of these subcultures emphasize the ways in which gay male constructions of gender are intimately linked to other forms of social difference. In From Drag Queens to Leathermen, Barrett presents an extension of his earlier work among African American drag queens in the 1990s, emphasizing the intersections of race and class in the construction of gender. An analysis of sacred music among radical faeries considers the ways in which expressions of gender are embedded in a broader neo-pagan religious identity. The formation of bear as an identity category (for heavyset and hairy men) in the late 1980s involves the appropriation of linguistic stereotypes of rural Southern masculinity. Among regular attendees of circuit parties, language serves to differentiate gay and straight forms of masculinity. In the early 2000s, barebackers (gay men who eschew condoms) used language to position themselves as rational risk takers with an innate desire for semen. For participants in the International Mr. Leather contest, a disciplined, militaristic masculinity links expressions of patriotism with BDSM sexual practice. In all of these groups, the construction of gendered identity involves combining linguistic forms that would usually not co-occur. These unexpected combinations serve as the foundation for the emergence of unique subcultural expressions of gay male identity, explicated at length in this book.

Striptease

Author: Rachel Shteir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422392089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Book Description
Brings to life striptease¿s Golden Age, the years between the Jazz Age and the Sexual Revolution, when strippers performed around the country, in burlesque theaters, nightclubs, vaudeville houses, carnivals, and on Broadway. Introduces us to a diverse cast of characters, from political reformers and impresarios, to drag queens, shimmy girls, cootch dancers, tit serenaders, and girls next door, lured into the profession by big-city aspirations. Includes profiles of famed performers: Gypsy Rose Lee, ¿the Literary Stripper¿; Lili St. Cyr, the 1950s mistress of exotic striptease; and Blaze Starr, the ¿human heat wave,¿ who literally set the stage on fire. ¿An entertaining portrait of an art form at once reviled and embraced by the American public.¿ Photos.

Neo-Burlesque

Author: Lynn Sally
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978828101
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. Performance studies scholar and acclaimed burlesque artist Lynn Sally offers an inside look at the history, culture, and philosophy of New York’s neo-burlesque scene. Revealing how twenty-first century neo-burlesque is in constant dialogue with the classic burlesque of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, she considers how today’s performers use camp to comment on preconceived notions of femininity. She also explores how the striptease performer directs the audience’s gaze, putting on layers of meaning while taking off layers of clothing. Through detailed profiles of iconic neo-burlesque performers such as Dita Von Teese, Dirty Martini, Julie Atlas Muz, and World Famous *BOB*, this book makes the case for understanding neo-burlesque as a new sexual revolution. Yet it also examines the broader community of “Pro-Am” performers who use neo-burlesque as a liberating vehicle for self-expression. Raising important questions about what feminism looks like, Neo-Burlesque celebrates a revolutionary performing art and participatory culture whose acts have political reverberations, both onstage and off.

Road Warrior

Author: Nick Malloy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906710521
Category : Male strippers
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
From the backstage bitchiness of drag queens, to the agents who demand 'extras' in return for a booking, this title bares all about the UK male strip scene.

Moon Puerto Vallarta

Author: Bruce Whipperman
Publisher: Moon Travel
ISBN: 1566918499
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Mexico enthusiast and veteran travel writer Bruce Whipperman knows the best way to experience Puerto Vallarta, from dining at new restaurants in De Santos and Xitomate to snorkeling in the Bay of Matanchén. Whipperman includes unique trip ideas like Eight Hours in Puerto Vallarta (a walking tour ideal for cruise travelers) and Five-Day Best of Puerto Vallarta. Packed with information on dining, transportation, and accommodations, Moon Puerto Vallarta has lots of options for a range of travel budgets. Every Moon guidebook includes recommendations for must-see sights and many regional, area, and city-centered maps. Complete with details on Puerto Vallarta's gay scene, the best beaches, shopping for Huichol crafts, and a Four Color section, Moon Puerto Vallarta gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. With expert writers, first-rate strategic advice, and an essential dose of humor, Moon guidebooks are the cure for the common trip.

Moon Puerto Vallarta

Author: Justin Henderson
Publisher: Moon Travel
ISBN: 163121232X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
divdivJoin author and longtime-resident Justin Henderson for an unforgettable experience. With unique perspective and advice you can trust, Moon Puerto Vallarta has everything you need to know to have a more personal and memorable experience. Covering a lively resort scene, an inviting coastline, and tranquil beach-town getaways, Moon Puerto Vallarta tells you what you need to know to plan the perfect trip for you. Discover the sweetest retreats, from private hideaways to jugle lodges and luxury resorts while swimming, snorkeling, or just relaxing in the sand. Along with trip ideas like “A Perfect Day for Romance” and “Highlights of Gay Puerto Vallarta”, Henderson includes tips finding the freshest, most delicious seafood, the most perfect beaches, and the top spots to see local wildlife. With expertly crafted maps and gorgeous photos, this full-color guidebook gives you the tools you need to have an immersive and unique experience. Moon Puerto Vallarta includes areas such as: Puerto Vallarta The Bay of Banderas Sayulita and the Riviera Nayarit Barra de Navidad and the Jalisco Coast Find the Moon guide that best suits your trip! Traveling in Mexico for longer? Try Moon Cancún & Cozumel, Moon Puerto Vallarta, Moon Tulum, Moon Mexico City, or Moon San Miguel de Allende./EMbrbrConsidering moving to Mexico/LI/DIV/I

The Best of Los Angeles and Southern California

Author: Alain Gayot
Publisher: Gayot
ISBN: 9781881066347
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
Visitors love L.A. for the same reasons its residents do -- fabulous year-round weather, gleaming beaches, and a staggering choice of entertainment and cultural activities. Then, of course, there's the thrill of Hollywood -- the glitz and glamour that make Los Angeles an international phenomenon. With more than 2,000 reviews of restaurants, hotels, resorts, shopping, nightlife, and recreation, The Best of Los Angeles covers it all, from Ensenada, Mexico, all the way north to Hearst Castle. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Changing Room

Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415159869
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
The Changing Room traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. This is the first-ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism.