title: Kind of a drag: gender, race, and ambivalence in The Birdcage and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.
abstract: This paper examines the ways in which two Hollywood films featuring drag queens, Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and The Birdcage, offer a kind of "both/and" look at the complexities of gender, sexuality, race, and culture, simultaneously challenging some institutionalized attitudes (especially heterosexism) while reinforcing others (especially sexism and racism)--making the use of drag as a locus of discovery in both films, at best, ambivalent.
authors.affiliation: Educational Philosophy and Planning Department, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN 55106, USA. mary.kirk@metrostate.edu
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kirk
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009040:Motion Pictures; D011287:Prejudice; D044469:Racial Groups; D014190:Transvestism