Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Penny Arcade
Preface Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier


1. Dragging up the Past - Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier
2. 'Once upon a time, there was a tavern': metadrag and other uses of the past at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern - Ben Walters
3. Camp and Drag in the Mainstream: A Critical Study of the Phenomenon of Drag performance in the Northern British Fun Pubs, 1973-1993 - Chris D'Dray
4. Soldiers in Skirts: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen, Sexuality, and Censorship in Post-War Britain - Jacob Bloomfield
5. Kinging the Stage: Male impersonators and drag kings, exploring shared historical narratives - Stephen Farrier
6. A Kiss that Breaks the Spell: Japanese "Drag Kings" and the Homosocial Culture of the Takarazuka Revue - Isabelle coy-dibley
7. Camp can be such a drag: Approaches to understanding camp and drag - Simon Dodi
8. Vonni Diva: Showgirl - Rosslyn Prosser
9. FagHag Drag: Penny Arcade's Archive of Otherness - Joseph Mercier with Penny Arcade
10. Nobody's Trash: Holly Woodlawn's Puerto Rican Drag and the Subversion of Authorship - Gabriel Mayora
11. Bibi is a Sissy: Drag, Death by Silence and the Journey to Self-Determination - Nando Messias
12. Mother Sally and The Fig Leaf: Re/Productions of A Carnival Character in Barbados - Nick Ishmael-Perkins
13. The Buttcracker: Dragging Ballet into Queer Places - Mark Edward and Helen Newall
14. Oh wow! He's queer! Queering Panto in Belfast: An Interview with Ross Anderson-Doherty - Alyson Campbell and Trish McTighe
15. Wicked Queens of Pantoland - Simon Sladen

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