The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators. Explore the colorful and controversial world of drag!

The Drag Queen Anthology:The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance & the people who live it. This provocative collection of original essays explores the possibilities, limitations, ironies, and controversies surrounding men who perform as women to an audience who knows the truth but celebrates the illusion.

The book's contributors call on extensive backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, theater, literature - even millitary studies - and use a variety of approaches to address common themes and genres of presentation, performance, and style in a wide range of historical settings and cultures.

"INDISPENSABLE...For more than a decade, Steven P. Schacht has been one of social science's most reliable guides to the world of drag queens and female impersonators...This book assembles an impressive cast of scholars who are as theoretically astute, methologically careful, and conceptually playful as the drag queens themselves." - Michael Kimmel, Author of The Genered Society; Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stong Brook

"TRULY CUTTING EDGE...A MUST-READ FOR SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS of the social construction of gender and gendered deviance. A long-overdue book that should stand as a centrepiece in the study and discussion of what it means to construct, perform, and experience gender. Will challenge our contemporary understandings about drag and female impersonation and also clarify the numerous myths long associated with drag and female impersonation...Draws together a wide array of voices, some well-known and widely respected, others fresh and new, to look at what drag and female impersonation mean as individual and group experiences nad often over-looked building blocks for communitiesand social institutions." - Richard Teksbury. PhD, Professor of Justice Administration, University of Louisville