Unsettling assumptions : tradition, gender, drag /

"In Unsettling Assumptions, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye link gender studies with traditional and popular culture studies to examine how tradition and gender can intersect to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study. Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expre...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Tye, Diane, 1957- (Editor), Greenhill, Pauline (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, 2014
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Table of Contents:
  • Three Dark-Brown Maidens and the Brommtopp: (De)Constructing Masculinities in Southern Manitoba Mennonite Mumming / Marcie Fehr and Pauline Greenhill
  • Cutting a Thousand Sticks of Tobacco Makes a Boy a Man: Traditionalized Performances of Masculinity in Occupational Contexts / Ann K. Ferrell
  • "If Thou Be Woman, Be Now Man!" "The Shift of Sex" as Transsexual Imagination / Pauline Greenhill and Emilie Anderson-Gregoire
  • From Peeping Swans to Little Cinderellas: The Queer Tradition of the Brothers Grimm in American Cinema / Kendra Magnus-Johnston
  • Global Flows in Coastal Contact Zones: Selkie Lore in Neil Jordan's Ondine and Solveig Eggerz's Seal Woman / Kirsten Mollegaard
  • "Let's All Get Dixie Fried": Rockabilly, Masculinity, and Homosociality / Patrick B. Mullen
  • Man to Man: Placing Masculinity in a Legend Performed for Jean-Francois Blade / William G. Pooley
  • Sexing the Turkey: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality at Thanksgiving / LuAnne Roth
  • Listening to Stories, Negotiating Responsibility: Exploring the Ethics of International Adoption through Narrative Analysis / Patricia Sawin
  • "What's under the Kilt?" Intersections of Ethnic and Gender Performativity / Diane Tye
  • "Composed for the Honor and Glory of the Ladies": Folklore and Medieval Women's Sexuality in The Distaff Gospels / Theresa A. Vaughan
  • "Just Like Coming to a Foreign Country:" Dutch Drag on a Danish Island / Anne B. Wallen
  • Encountering Ghost Princesses in Sou shen ji: Rereading Classical Chinese Ghost Wife Zhiguai Tales / Wenjuan Xie.