Mother camp
female impersonators in America
by Esther Newton
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For two years (1965-1966) anthropologist 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 styles, as enacted in the homosexual concept of "drag" (sex role transformation) and "camp," an important humor system cultivated by the drag queens themselves.--From publisher description.
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Mother camp: female impersonators in America
1979, University of Chicago Press
in English
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0226577600 9780226577609
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Mother Camp (Anthropology of Modern Societies)
January 1973, Prentice Hall
in English
0136028543 9780136028543
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Mother Camp (Anthropology of Modern Societies)
January 1973, Prentice Hall
Hardcover
in English
0136028543 9780136028543
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Mother camp: female impersonators in America.
1972, Prentice-Hall
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Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint, with a new pref., of the 1972 ed. published by Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., in series: Anthropology of modern societies series.
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