The Beauty and the Beast: Reflections about the Socio-Historical and Subcultural Context of Drag Queens and "Tunten" in Berlin

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 55-71

  Balzer, Carsten ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autochthony; Cultural globalization; Drag queens; Gay culture in transition; Internationalization of gay identities; Transgender; Transvestites; Tunten

Indexed keywords

CLOTHING; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; GERMANY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERFORMANCE; POLITICS; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRANSVESTISM;

BEAUTY; BERLIN; CULTURE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSVESTISM; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 2342482458     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J082v46n03_04     Document Type: Review

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