Unsettling Assumptions Tradition, Gender, Drag.

By:

Greenhill, Pauline [Author]

Contributor(s):

Tye, Diane

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780874218985

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HQ1075 .U574 2014

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Contents:

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

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

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

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

Subject: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HQ1075 .567 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn890983532

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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.

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