Pink tornados and volcanic desire: Lois weaver’s resistant ‘femme(nini)tease’ in “faith and dancing: Mapping femininity and other natural disasters

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 317-333

  Shoemaker, Deanna ^a  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drag; Femininity; Femme; Lois Weaver; Queer; Split Britches

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878808191     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930701573303     Document Type: Article

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