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From the late 19th to the early 21st centuries, female impersonation was a popular performance genre. Long before today's television shows, men in colleges, business, & even the military formed drag clubs & put on musicals and variety shows of all kinds with little fear of negative judgment. But no female impersonator was as famous, successful, or highly-regarded as Julian Eltinge. Eltinge, born William Dalton just outside Boston, started playing female characters & imitating women with his mother's encouragement as a child while his father shuttled his family around the Americas in search of a mining fortune that never materialized. The future drag star returned to Boston in his late teens where he quickly rose through the ranks of semi-amateur all-male musicals, then moved on to vaudeville, & eventually starred in hugely successful musical comedies such as The Fascinating Widow (1910).

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The Bodies of Others explores the politics of gender in motion. From drag ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the club mothers of modern dance, this book delves into four decades of drag dances on American stages, tracing the ways in which bodies can be imagined otherwise. Drag dances take us beyond glittery one-liners and into the spaces between gender norms. In these backstage histories, we see dancers who give their bodies over to other selves, opening up the category of realness. When realness becomes a practice, dancing can become a way of restaging the histories of bodies. The book maps out a drag politics of embodiment, connecting drag dances to queer hope, memory, and mourning. There are aging eIÌ⁰⁴́₇℗Đtoiles, midnight shows, mystical seIÌ⁰⁴́₇℗Đances, and all of the dust and velvet of divas in their dressing-rooms. But these forty years of drag dances are also a cultural history, including Mark Morris dancing the death of Dido in the shadow of AIDS, and the swans of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo sketching an antiracist vision for ballet. Drawing on queer theory, dance history, and the embodied practices of dancers themselves, The Bodies of Others examines the ways in which drag dances undertake the work of a shared queer and trans politics. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on performance, gender and sexuality, and embodiment.

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"This ethnography of drag kings and queens in Ohio reveals that these iconically queer institutions have little in common and introduces interperformance, a framework for identity formation and community building. The book uncovers rifts in the LGBT community and suggests strategies for repair. This is the story of the drag kings and queens at Bounce/Union Station, a gay bar in Cleveland, Ohio. Through an ethnography of their weekly shows, Katie Horowitz reveals that despite the shared heading of drag, radical (in)difference between these genres provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men. Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness is the first book centered on queer life in Cleveland and the first to focus simultaneously on kinging and queening. This important work argues for the legitimacy of studies that focus exclusively on a single identity, free from the intersectional compulsion to extrapolate one's claims to the rest of the queer spectrum. The book will be key reading for students and faculty in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; performance studies; American studies; cultural studies; ethnography; and rhetoric. It will be useful to graduate students and faculty interested in queer culture, gender performance, and the emerging field of transgender studies. At the same time, the clear and relatable writing style will make it accessible to undergraduates and well suited to upper-level courses in queer theory, LGBTQ identities, performance studies, and qualitative research methods"--

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