Drag kings in Cape Town: The performance of gendered subjectivities online
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Date
2015
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University of the Westen Cape
Abstract
The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely been overlooked. Research by scholars like Judith Halberstam (1997, 1998) on female masculinity and the drag king performer has attempted to address this imbalance, but the phenomenon has yet to receive any attention from sociolinguists.
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Entextualisation, Drag king, Gender, South Africa, Multimodality
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Shaikjee , M. (2015). Drag kings in Cape Town: The performance of gendered subjectivities online.Multilingual Margins , 2(2):38-54