Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance
This research explores the cultural implications of cis-women performing as drag queens; focusing on straight-identified performers.The exegesis and creative production examine intersections between heterosexual and queer identities, and whether straight-identified faux queens may be queered by perf...
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Curtin University
2015
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| author | Coull, Jamie Lee |
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| description | This research explores the cultural implications of cis-women performing as drag queens; focusing on straight-identified performers.The exegesis and creative production examine intersections between heterosexual and queer identities, and whether straight-identified faux queens may be queered by performance practice. Drawing on practice-led research, autoethnography and in-depth interviews, the thesis explores challenges in negotiating cis-gender iterations of drag and discusses ways that faux queen performances maintain the challenge of queer and resist reincorporation. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-21172017-02-20T06:37:43Z Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance Coull, Jamie Lee This research explores the cultural implications of cis-women performing as drag queens; focusing on straight-identified performers.The exegesis and creative production examine intersections between heterosexual and queer identities, and whether straight-identified faux queens may be queered by performance practice. Drawing on practice-led research, autoethnography and in-depth interviews, the thesis explores challenges in negotiating cis-gender iterations of drag and discusses ways that faux queen performances maintain the challenge of queer and resist reincorporation. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2117 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Coull, Jamie Lee Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance |
| title | Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance |
| title_full | Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance |
| title_fullStr | Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance |
| title_short | Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance |
| title_sort | faux queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2117 |