Research Catalog

Title

RuPaul's drag race and philosophy : sissy that thought / edited by Hendrik Kempt and Megan Volpert ; with a foreword by Kate Bornstein.

Publication

• Chicago : Open Court, [2020]
• ©2020

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Kempt, Hendrik
• Volpert, Megan A.

Description

xiii, 239 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

As RuPaul has said, this is the Golden Age of Drag and that's chiefly the achievement of RuPaul's Drag Race, which in its eleventh year is more popular than ever, and has now become fully mainstream in its appeal. The show has an irresistible allure for folks of all persuasions and proclivities. Yet serious or philosophical discussion of its exponential success has been rare. Now at last we have RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy, shining the light on all dimensions of this amazing phenomenon: theories of gender construction and identity, interpretations of RuPaul's famous quotes and phrases, the paradoxes of reality shows, the phenomenology of the drag queen, and how the fake becomes the truly authentic.

Series Statement

Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 129

Uniform Title

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 129.

Alternative Title

RuPaul's drag race & philosophy

Subjects

• RuPaul, 1960-
• Television programs > Philosophy
• RuPaul's drag race (Television program : 2009- )
• Drag shows > Philosophy

Note

• "This book has not been prepared, authorized, or endorsed by the creators or producers of RuPaul's drag race"--Front cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Kate Bornstein -- On philosophers and drag queens / Hendrik Kempt and Megan Volpert -- Part One. Category Is . . . Speak, Think, Read, Werk : 1. RuPaul is a better Warhol / Megan Volpert -- 2. Reading is fundamental / Lucy McDonald -- 3. What should a queen do? / Marta Sznajder -- 4. Is it immoral to read someone to filth? / Rutger Birnie -- Part Two. Category Is . . . The Reality of It All : 5. RuPaul versus Zarathustra / Alice and Julie Van der Wielen -- 6. Looking for Realness / Dawn R. Gilpin and Peter Nagy -- 7. The sublime sabotage of the inner saboteur / Sandra Ryan -- 8. Playing with glitter / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Mariana Zarate and Leonardo Acosta Lando -- Part Three. Category Is . . . 'Drag Race' Family Values : 9. Another wig underneath / Anneliese Cooper -- 10. And the rest is drag? / Oliver Norman -- 11. Lip sync for your life / Guilel Treiber -- 12. The importance of being fabulous / Holly Onclin -- Part Three. Category Is . . . Learning from the Queens : 13. The origins of self-love / Anna Marie Fennell -- 14. And you want some privacy? You better work / Alice Fox -- 15. Fire WERK with me / Carolina Are -- 16. Death becomes her / Hendrik Kempt -- Bibliography -- Trading cards : Philosophers as drag queens.

Call Number

Sc E 20-639

ISBN

• 9780812694789
• 0812694783

LCCN

2019950428

OCLC

1090475544

Title

RuPaul's drag race and philosophy : sissy that thought / edited by Hendrik Kempt and Megan Volpert ; with a foreword by Kate Bornstein.

Publisher

Chicago : Open Court, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 129

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 129.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.

Added Author

Kempt, Hendrik, editor.

Volpert, Megan A., editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-639