title: Kinging in Hungarian lesbian culture.
abstract: This article looks at the position of the drag king in Hungarian lesbian culture. It focuses on Bandage, Socks and Facial Hair (2006), a documentary about a drag king workshop. The film documents the historical moment when the Hungarian workshop participants encounter the drag king as a lesbian tool for parodying and repoliticizing mainstream masculinity. I examine the ways in which the participants interpret their performances of masculinity and the film negotiates heteronormativity. I argue that the political merits of the film can be spelled out by reading the participants' (trans)gender politics from the perspective of the cultural specificities of post-socialist Hungary.
authors.affiliation: Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary. andrea.pbalogh@gmail.com
authors.forename: Andrea P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Balogh
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D057228:Masculinity; D009040:Motion Pictures; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012919:Social Behavior