Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion, and Abjection

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dc.contributor.authorAlexeyeff, Kalissa
dc.date.accessioned2009-12-01T23:39:29Z
dc.date.available2009-12-01T23:39:29Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractMale 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
dc.identifier.citationAlexeyeff, K. 2008. Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion, and Abjection. Special issue, The Contemporary Pacific 20 (1): 143-61.
dc.identifier.issn1043-898X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/14058
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
dc.publisherCenter for Pacific Islands Studies
dc.subjectglobalization
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectsexuality
dc.subjectperformance
dc.subjectCook Islands
dc.subject.lcshOceania -- Periodicals.
dc.titleGlobalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion, and Abjection
dc.typeArticle
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