Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America Contemporary Romance and other forms of bigotry

and other forms of bigotry

it’s a narrative of survival

A New York Times Critics Top Ten Book of the Year

a five-year-old South Asian boy becomes fascinated with his mother’s bindi

Acting feminine labelled them "a sissy" and brought social isolation

Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America Contemporary Romance and other forms of bigotryFor two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton spent time in the noisy bars, the chaotic dressing rooms, and the cheap apartments and hotels that make up the lives of drag queens, interviewing informants whose trust she had earned and compiling a lively, first hand ethnographic account of the culture of female impersonators. Mother Camp explores the distinctions