Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures: The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene

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Kerryn Drysdale

Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures

The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene

Kerryn Drysdale

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
04 June 2019

Gender studies, gender groups; Lesbian studies; Sociology

This book takes the globally recognised phenomenon of drag king performances as an opportunity for critical inquiry into the rise and fall of an urban scene for lesbian and queer women in Sydney, Australia (circa 1999-2012). Exploring how a series of weekly events provided the site for intimate encounters, Drysdale reveals the investments made by participants that worked to sustain the sense of a small world and anchor the expansive imaginary of lesbian cultural life. But what happens when scenes fade, as they invariably do? Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures is unique in capturing the perspective of a scene at the moment of its decline, revealing the process by which a contemporary movement becomes layered with historical significance. Bringing together the theoretical tradition of scene studies with recent work on the affective potentialities of the everyday and the mobile urban spaces they inhabit, this book has appeal to scholars working across gender, sexuality and culture.

By: Kerryn Drysdale
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2019 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9783030157760
ISBN 10: 3030157768
Pages: 203
Publication Date: 04 June 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Scene Thinking.- 2. Drag King Cultures.- 3. Small Worlds.- 4. Social Imaginaries.- 5. Scene Stories.- 6. Everyday Archives.- 7. Conclusion.

Kerryn Drysdale is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney, Australia.

Reviews for Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures: The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene

This book is a much needed and timely contribution to queer and performance studies as well as to feminist geography. ... Drysdale's book is much more than just an entertaining account of one of Sydney's subcultures as she offers a theoretically nuanced expansion of concepts of scene and scene thinking. ... this book is a much-welcomed contribution to its field as other scholars can draw on Drysdale's work to fill the gaps the present case study was unable to cover. (Maryna Shevtsova, Gender, Place & Culture, October 15, 2019)