RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy : Sissy That Thought.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kempt, Hendrik.

Contributor:

Volpert, Megan.

Bornstein, Kate.

Series:

Popular Culture and Philosophy Series

Popular culture and philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drag shows.

Television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Open Court, 2019.

Summary:

As RuPaul has said, this is the Golden Age of Drag and that's chiefly the achievement of RuPaul's Drag Race, which in its eleventh year is more popular than ever, and has now become fully mainstream in its appeal. The show has an irresistible allure for folks of all persuasions and proclivities. Yet serious or philosophical discussion of its exponential success has been rare. Now at last we have RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy, shining the light on all dimensions of this amazing phenomenon: theories of gender construction and identity, interpretations of RuPaul's famous quotes and phrases, the paradoxes of reality shows, the phenomenology of the drag queen, and how the fake becomes the truly authentic.

Contents:

Foreword / Kate Bornstein

On philosophers and drag queens / Hendrik Kempt and Megan Volpert

Part One. Category Is . . . Speak, Think, Read, Werk : 1. RuPaul is a better Warhol / Megan Volpert

2. Reading is fundamental / Lucy McDonald

3. What should a queen do? / Marta Szajder

4. Is it immoral to read someone to filth? / Rutger Birnie

Part Two. Category Is . . . The Reality of It All : 5. RuPaul versus Zarathustra / Alice and Julie Van der Wielen

6. Looking for Realness / Dawn R. Gilpin and Peter Nagy

7. The sublime sabotage of the inner saboteur / Sandra Ryan

8. Playing with glitter / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Mariana Zarate and Leonardo Acosta Lando

Part Three. Category Is . . . 'Drag Race' Family Values : 9. Another wig underneath / Anneliese Cooper

10. And the rest is drag? / Oliver Norman

11. Lip sync for your life / Guilel Treiber

12. The importance of being fabulous / Holly Onclin

Part Three. Category Is . . . Learning from the Queens : 13. The origins of self-love / Anna Marie Fennell

14. And you want some privacy? You better work / Alice Fox

15. Fire WERK with me / Carolina Are

16. Death becomes her / Hendrik Kempt

Bibliography

Trading cards : Philosophers as drag queens.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8126-9482-1