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Title: The Drag King Book by Del LaGrace Volcano, Judith Halberstam, Judith Jack Halberstam ISBN: 1-85242-607-1 Publisher: Serpent's Tail Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Your typical queer subculture fare but otherwise entertainin
Comment: ...For most, the material may be groundbreaking and risque - and it should be - but I found it less than satisfying at times... It was more about performance art and I detect overtones of lesbian activism. Which is OK. It was more academic than racy. Which is not what I was looking for. Let's just say the artificial, cabberet-type setting of it all was... anti-climactic. And of course there are also those recurring themes about stretching the limits of the gender continuum, breaking the gender binary, coming up with new catagories to put these people in ect., etc..., But this book is not without its gems.
The photographs rank so-so in shock value but score high on "camp-itude". I think they've got an edge over their drag queen sisters who are limited to portraying 50's movie stars and "divas", very traditional, idealized caricatures of women. Drag kings can be fat, ugly, working-class, Joe Blows... One can quickly see that by just looking at the cover. Two of the models have quickly achieved pin-up status in my mind. Check out Jackie and Stafford on pp. 34-37! Aren't they darling? In one photograph, they are dressed in business suits. In the next two, they are topless and wearing matching (albeit different colored) pairs of Levi's...
I don't quite take to that Halberstam fellow. That scholarly pompitude and high-brow style she writes in is boring at times. Read "Female Masculinity" to really put you to sleep. She has reduced my fetish for butch women to a dry science. Sometimes she gets more technical than a medical journal. Fortunately, she's considerably dumbed down her writing in this book. And you get to read less from her because it's packed with more interviews with the drag performers themselves. I admit I found those a WHOLE lot more fun and informative...
Rating: 3
Summary: Your typical queer subculture fare but otherwise entertainin
Comment: I'm not really interested in the drag king "movement"... For most, the material may be groundbreaking and risque - and it should be - but I found it less than satisfying at times... It was more about performance art and I detect overtones of lesbian activism. Which is OK. It was more academic than racy. Which is not what I was looking for. Let's just say the artificial, cabberet-type setting of it all was... anti-climactic. And of course there are also those recurring themes about stretching the limits of the gender continuum, breaking the gender binary, coming up with new catagories to put these people in ect., etc.,... But this book is not without its gems.
The photographs rank so-so in shock value but score high on "camp-itude". I think they've got an edge over their drag queen sisters who are limited to portraying 50's movie stars and "divas", very traditional, idealized caricatures of women. Drag kings can be fat, ugly, working-class,... One can quickly see that by just looking at the cover. Two of the models have quickly achieved pin-up status in my mind. Check out Jackie and Stafford on pp. 34-37! Aren't they darling? In one photograph, they are dressed in business suits. In the next two, they are topless and wearing matching (albeit different colored) pairs of Levi's. ...
I don't quite take to that Halberstam fellow. That scholarly pompitude and high-brow style she writes in is boring at times. Read "Female Masculinity" to really put you to sleep. She has reduced my fetish for butch women to a dry science. Sometimes she gets more technical than a medical journal. Fortunately, she's considerably dumbed down her writing in this book. And you get to read less from her because it's packed with more interviews with the drag performers themselves. I admit I found those a WHOLE lot more fun and informative. Mo B. Dick and Dred are hilarious.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book!
Comment: Just want to let others know that this book is wonderful, and worth having on your shelf, for both the insightful commentary and the compelling photos. I'm working on a student film about drag kings in DC, and the book's great photographs have really enhanced the film. I highly recommend it.
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Title: Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam ISBN: 0822322439 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.15 |
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Title: Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Taste This (Performance Group), Ivan Coyote, Zoe Eakle, Lyndell Montgomery, Anna Camilleri, Taste This ISBN: 0889740860 Publisher: Press Gang Publishers Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Sublime Mutations by Del Lagrace Volcano ISBN: 4887691351 Publisher: Janssen Verlag Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Transmen and Ftms: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities by Jason Cromwell ISBN: 0252068254 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron ISBN: 1573440620 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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