Routledge - Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life Book

Explore the complex world of queer identity and performance with Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life by Routledge. This book offers an assemblage of fragments that tell the stories of a diverse group of artists and activists. For these individuals, drag serves as an inspiration, a method, an object, and a primary aim. Methodologically grounded in ethnography, this work incorporates auto-theoretical material to reveal the realities of research, teaching, and loving. It examines the painful failures and the deep intimacies found within these experiences. Rather than viewing drag as mere gender impersonation or simple resistance to norms, this text presents it as something productively messy and ambivalent. This book provides a unique perspective on how drag can attune us to political and aesthetic dimensions of life. It is an essential read for those interested in performing arts, queer studies, and the intersection of activism and art.