Unsettling assumptions : tradition, gender, drag / edited by Pauline Greenhill, Diane Tye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenhill, Pauline, editor.

Tye, Diane, 1957- editor.

University of Winnepeg, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity.

Sex role.

Gender expression.

Queer theory.

Manners and customs.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Utah State University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Unsettling Assumptions, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye link gender studies with traditional and popular culture studies to examine how tradition and gender can intersect to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study.Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expressive culture and sex/gender systems by challenging their conventional constructions, using sex/gender as a lens to question, investigate, or upset concepts like family, ethics, and authenticity. Individual essays consider myriad topics such as Thanksgiving turkeys, rockabilly and bar fights, Chinese tales of female ghosts, selkie stories, a noisy Mennonite New Year's celebration, the Distaff Gospels, Kentucky tobacco farmers, international adoptions, and more.In Unsettling Assumptions, expressive culture emerges as fundamental both to our sense of belonging to a family, an occupation, or friendship group and, most notably, to identity performativity. Within larger contexts, these works offer a better understanding of cultural attitudes like misogyny, homophobia, and racism as well as the construction and negotiation of power"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Thematic Clusters; Acknowledgments; Introduction / Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye; Chapter 1. Three Dark-Brown Maidens and the Brommtopp: (De)Constructing Masculinities in Southern Manitoba Mennonite Mumming / Marcie Fehr and Pauline Greenhill; Chapter 2. Cutting a Thousand Sticks of Tobacco Makes a Boy a Man: Traditionalized Performances of Masculinity in Occupational Contexts / Ann K. Ferrell; Chapter 3. "If Thou Be Woman, Be Now Man!" "The Shift of Sex" as Transsexual Imagination / Pauline Greenhill and Emilie Anderson-Grégoire

Chapter 4. From Peeping Swans to Little Cinderellas: The Queer Tradition of the Brothers Grimm in American Cinema / Kendra Magnus-JohnstonChapter 5. Global Flows in Coastal Contact Zones: Selkie Lore in Neil Jordan's Ondine and Solveig Eggerz's Seal Woman / Kirsten Møllegaard; Chapter 6. "Let's All Get Dixie Fried": Rockabilly, Masculinity, and Homosociality / Patrick B. Mullen; Chapter 7. Man to Man: Placing Masculinity in a Legend Performed for Jean-François Bladé / William G. Pooley

Chapter 8. Sexing the Turkey: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality at Thanksgiving / LuAnne RothChapter 9. Listening to Stories, Negotiating Responsibility: Exploring the Ethics of International Adoption through Narrative Analysis / Patricia Sawin; Chapter 10. "What's under the Kilt?" Intersections of Ethnic and Gender Performativity / Diane Tye; Chapter 11. "Composed for the Honor and Glory of the Ladies": Folklore and Medieval Women's Sexuality in The Distaff Gospels / Theresa A. Vaughan

Chapter 12. "Just Like Coming to a Foreign Country:" Dutch Drag on a Danish Island / Anne B. WallenChapter 13. Encountering Ghost Princesses in Sou shen ji: Rereading Classical Chinese Ghost Wife Zhiguai Tales / Wenjuan Xie; Bibliography; Filmography; About the Authors; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9781492012511

1492012513

9780874218985

0874218985

OCLC:

891404319