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Description

1. 221 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. "An Archaeology of Posing compiles previous and new writing on gay culture by one of the field's most provocative critics. Diverging from the text-based premise of most LGBTQ theories, Meyer utilizes performance studies and interpretive anthropology to examine camp and drag performances in the spaces in which they appear. He explores a variety of topics - from transsexual striptease and Harlem drag balls to the death of camp-- within the genre of gay and gendered performance. This collection of essays, with his celebration of the effeminate gay male body, presents a fresh interpretation of established art forms. From the pre-Stonewall era to the present day, Meyer redefines how we understand the phenomena of camp and drag."--Page 4 of cover.

Subject

1. Drag performance
2. Drag queens
3. Homosexuality
4. Camp (Style)
5. Drag shows
6. Female impersonators
7. Homosexualité
8. Camp (Esthétique)
9. Acteurs travestis
10. Spectacles de drags
11. Drag queens
12. homosexuality
13. camp (cultural movement)
14. Lichaamscultuur
15. Homoseksualiteit
16. Performances
17. Seksualiteit
18. Gay men > Sexuality

Genre/Form

1. Essay
2. essays.
3. Essays
4. Essais.

Contents

1. Unveiling the word : science and narrative in transsexual striptease -- Reclaiming the discourse of camp -- The signifying invert : camp and the performance of nineteenth-century sexology -- Top camp/bottom camp -- Rethinking Paris is burning : performing social geography in Harlem drag balls -- Celebrity Jack : the Internet and the death of camp -- In defense of gay/performance / by Thomas A. King and Moe Meyer.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain