Unsettling Assumptions Tradition, Gender, Drag.
Greenhill, Pauline.
Unsettling Assumptions Tradition, Gender, Drag. - Logan : Utah State University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (321 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
In Unsettling Assumptions, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye examine how tradition and gender come together to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study.Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expressive culture and sex/gender systems 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 adopti.
9780874218985
Folklore.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Manners and customs.
Queer theory.
Sex role.
Gender identity.
Sex role.
Gender expression.
Queer theory.
Manners and customs.
Folklore.
Electronic Books.
HQ1075 / .U574 2014
Unsettling Assumptions Tradition, Gender, Drag. - Logan : Utah State University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (321 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
In Unsettling Assumptions, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye examine how tradition and gender come together to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study.Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expressive culture and sex/gender systems 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 adopti.
9780874218985
Folklore.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Manners and customs.
Queer theory.
Sex role.
Gender identity.
Sex role.
Gender expression.
Queer theory.
Manners and customs.
Folklore.
Electronic Books.
HQ1075 / .U574 2014