Drag Queens and Beauty Queens compares two events that take place every year in Atlantic City: the Miss America pageant and the Miss’d America drag pageant. Examining how femininity is performed at each, it also describes Miss’d America’s ongoing importance to the local gay community from the AIDS crisis to the Rupaul’s Drag Race era.
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens compares two events that take place every year in Atlantic City: the Miss America pageant and the Miss’d America drag pageant. Examining how femininity is performed at each, it also describes Miss’d America’s ongoing importance to the local gay community from the AIDS crisis to the Rupaul’s Drag Race era.
LAURIE GREENE is an associate professor of anthropology at Stockton University in New Jersey, where she has taught since 1986. She is the founder and chair of the LGBTQ Youth Safe Space Initiative at Stockton University and an advocate for the local LGBTQ community.
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Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Doing AC Chapter 1: Pageants and Pageantry Chapter 2: Atlantic City, Drag Culture, and a Community of Practice Chapter 3: New York Avenue: Where the Party Began Chapter 4: Camp and The Queering of Miss America Chapter 5: Show Us your Shoes, Not your Midriffs Conclusion: Drag Queens and Beauty Queens
Appendix I: Winners of the Miss’d America Pageant Appendix II: Drag Queens Interviewed in Fieldnotes With Dates Appendix III: Original Miss’d America Theme Song Bibliography
Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Doing AC Chapter 1: Pageants and Pageantry Chapter 2: Atlantic City, Drag Culture, and a Community of Practice Chapter 3: New York Avenue: Where the Party Began Chapter 4: Camp and The Queering of Miss America Chapter 5: Show Us your Shoes, Not your Midriffs Conclusion: Drag Queens and Beauty Queens
Appendix I: Winners of the Miss’d America Pageant Appendix II: Drag Queens Interviewed in Fieldnotes With Dates Appendix III: Original Miss’d America Theme Song Bibliography
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