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Is she he? Drag discourse and drag logic in online media reports of gender variance
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Heller, Meredith |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Journal: Feminist Media Studies This article investigates online entertainment news, magazine, and gossip reports that use canonical terms and ideas attached to theatrical gender-bending—“drag discourses”—to identify gender variant bodies and expressions. Drag discourse pervades the coverage of female-identified menswear models Elliott Sailors and Casey Legler, and female-identified pop stars Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Knowles. I first investigate why media texts use drag as descriptor, especially when it rarely aligns with public figures' own expressions of identity or intentionality. I then investigate what I term “drag logic,” or how publics engage with drag discourse to inform or support their interpretations of embodied “realness.” I argue that drag logic is an open-ended analytic: a method of meaning making that is unpredictable and subject to individual processes. While drag logic has led to some reductive conclusions about gender variant people, I suggest the pervasive online rumor that Gaga is male-bodied demonstrates the creative potential of this analytic. Drawing on the concept of radical queerness, I conclude by proposing that drag logic is a semiotic with the potential to dismantle the ideological stability of the “real” body. |
| Related Links | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14680777.2015.1114004?needAccess=true |
| Ending Page | 459 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| Starting Page | 445 |
| ISSN | 14680777 |
| e-ISSN | 14715902 |
| DOI | 10.1080/14680777.2015.1114004 |
| Journal | Feminist Media Studies |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 16 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2015-11-30 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Feminist Media Studies Cultural Studies Online Media Gender Variance |
| Content Type | Text |
| Subject | Gender Studies Visual Arts and Performing Arts Communication |
