Unsettling Assumptions

Tradition, Gender, Drag

322 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 adoptions, and more.

In Unsettling Assumptions, folkloric forms express but also counteract negative aspects of culture like misogyny, homophobia, and racism. But expressive culture also emerges as fundamental to our sense of belonging to a family, an occupation, or friendship group and, most notably, to identity performativity and the construction and negotiation of power.

• Reihe: Utah State University Press
• ISBN: 9780874218978
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2014
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado
• Herausgegeben von: Pauline Greenhill, Diane Tye