Mother Camp Female Impersonators in America

Name: Mother Camp Female Impersonators in America
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ISBN: 9780226577609

ISBN-10: 0226577600

ISBN-13: 9780226577609

Edition: 1979

Authors: Esther Newton

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For two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens—homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton spent time in the noisy bars, the chaotic dressing rooms, and the cheap apartments and hotels that make up the lives of drag queens, interviewing informants whose trust she had earned and compiling a lively, first-hand ethnographic account of the culture of female impersonators. Mother Camp explores the distinctions that drag queens make among themselves as performers, the various kinds of night clubs and acts they depend on for a living, and the social organization of their work. A major part of the book deals with the symbolic geography of male and female…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.94" wide x 11.57" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface to the Phoenix Edition


Preface


Acknowledgments


Note to the Reader



On the Job



The ""Queens""



Types of Acts



Two Shows



Role Models



""The Fast Fuck and the Quick Buck""


Appendix Field Methods