Makeup of RuPaul's Drag Race

Jim Daems’ work focuses primarily on 16th and 17th century English representations of Ireland and on queer theory. He has published books and articles on Canadian multi-media artist and poet Bill Bissett, Harry Potter, Hank Williams, and Chuck Berry.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: RuPaul’s Ambivalent Appropriation of Pop Culture (Jim Daems)Representing Gender, Race and Realness: The Television World of America’s Next Drag Superstars (Mary Marcel) Of Fish and Feminists: Homonormative Misogyny and the Trans*Queen (Laurie Norris)Dragging with an Accent: Linguistic Stereotypes, Language Barriers and Translingualism (Libby Anthony)Policing the Proper Queer Subject: RuPaul’s Drag Race in the Neoliberal “Post” Moment (Kai Kohlsdorf)“For your next drag challenge,” You Must Do Something: Playfulness Without Rules (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns)Cover, Girl: Branding Puerto Rican Drag in 21st-Century U.S. Popular Culture (R. Gabriel Mayora)“Draguating” to Normal: Camp and Homonormative Politics (Josh Morrison)Of Women and Queens: Gendered Realities and ­Re-Education in RuPaul’s Drag Empire (Carolyn Chernoff)The Prime of Miss RuPaul Charles: Allusion, Betrayal and Charismatic Pedagogy (David J. Fine and Emily Shreve)About the ContributorsBibliographyIndex