Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion, and Abjection
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2008
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University of Hawai'i Press
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
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Male to female cross-dressing and performing have a long indigenous history
in the Cook Islands. In recent years, Western-style drag shows have also been
included in the Cook Islands cross-dressing repertoire. This article takes the
highly cosmopolitan vehicle of the drag show and uses it to track the relationship
between local and global models of gender and sexuality. It examines ways in
which the iconography of domesticity and motherhood has been used to signify
an uneasy relationship between local and global ideas of sexuality and gender
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globalization, gender, sexuality, performance, Cook Islands, Oceania -- Periodicals.
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Alexeyeff, K. 2008. Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion, and Abjection. Special issue, The Contemporary Pacific 20 (1): 143-61.
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