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For two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton spent time in the noisy bars, the chaotic dressing rooms, and the cheap apartments and hotels that make up the lives of drag queens, interviewing informants whose trust she had earned and compiling a lively, first-hand ethnographic account of the culture of female impersonators. Mother Camp explores the distinctions that drag queens make among themselves as performers, the various kinds of night clubs and acts they depend on for a living, and the social organization of their work. A major part of the book deals with the symbolic geography of male and female styles, as enacted in the homosexual concept of "drag" (sex role transformation) and "camp" an important humor system cultivated by the drag queens themselves. "Newton's fascinating book shows how study of the extraordinary can brilliantly illuminate the ordinary that social-sexual division of personality, appearance, and activity we usually take for granted" Jonathan Katz, author of Gay American History "A trenchant statement of the social force and arbitrary nature of gender roles" Martin S. Weinberg, Contemporary Sociology
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- PublisherPrentice Hall
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0136028543
- ISBN 13 9780136028543
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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Mother Camp - Female Impersonators In America [Jill Johnston's copy]
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Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
(1972)
ISBN 10: 0136028543
ISBN 13: 9780136028543
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First. Violet cloth boards, 8vo, 136 pages w/ dustjacket. Condition issues: book is Very Good + but for some fading to covers, and top edge somewhat darkened. The DJ is considerably worn with chips and closed tears & tiny pieces missing from top edge; sunning to spine as well as to a lesser extent front and rear covers; in all Good+. This all said this copy hails from the library of the late great Jill Johnston (1929-2010), critic, radical lesbian feminist and champion of the avant-garde, and it bears her distinctive stamp in blue ink on title page which reads "Write first. then live." J.J. / Johnston has also written her name -- quite unusual -- on the front free endpaper. Newton at time of publication was Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Purchase. Seller Inventory # 2540
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