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Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life
Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life is an assemblage of fragments that collectively tell stories about a diverse group of artists and activists for whom drag serves as inspiration, method, object, and aim.
Methodologically grounded in ethnography, Dragging incorporates auto-theoretical material that lays bare the intimacies of research, teaching, and loving, as well as their painful failures. Drag is more than gender impersonation, and it is more than resistance to norms. It is productively messy and ambivalent, and in these and other ways can serve to attune us to political and aesthetic alternatives to the increasingly widespread desire to be led.
One of very few books about drag by an anthropologist, and using a uniquely personal approach, Dragging is an ethnography of artists and activists.
Methodologically grounded in ethnography, Dragging incorporates auto-theoretical material that lays bare the intimacies of research, teaching, and loving, as well as their painful failures. Drag is more than gender impersonation, and it is more than resistance to norms. It is productively messy and ambivalent, and in these and other ways can serve to attune us to political and aesthetic alternatives to the increasingly widespread desire to be led.
One of very few books about drag by an anthropologist, and using a uniquely personal approach, Dragging is an ethnography of artists and activists.
256 pages, Paperback
Published September 3, 2020
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March 30, 2024
4.5!!
This is probably my favourite ethnography that I've read so far (though I haven't read many). The portaits McGlotten paints are beautiful, detailed, but still left me wanting more (in a good way). Those, pepper with bits of their auto-ethnography really connected with me. I would definitely recommend this to my friends!!
This is probably my favourite ethnography that I've read so far (though I haven't read many). The portaits McGlotten paints are beautiful, detailed, but still left me wanting more (in a good way). Those, pepper with bits of their auto-ethnography really connected with me. I would definitely recommend this to my friends!!
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