RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture

Chapter 1 Drag Culture, Global Participation and RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 2 The “RuPaulitics” of Subjectification in RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 3 Contradictions Between the Subversive and the Mainstream: Drag Cultures and RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 4 “Pick up a book and go read”: Art and Legitimacy in RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 5 North American Universalism in RuPaul’s Drag Race: Stereotypes, Linguicism, and the Construction of “Puerto Rican Queens”

Chapter 6 Spicy. Exotic. Creature. Representations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities on RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 7 The Werk That Remains: Drag and the Mining of the Idealized Female Form

Chapter 8 Big-Girls Don’t Cry: Portrayals of the Fat Body in RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 9 “I Am the Drag Whisperer”: Notes from the Front Line of a Cultural Phenomenon

Chapter 10 Sissy That Performance Script! The Queer Pedagogy of RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 11 Super Troopers: The Homonormative Regime of Visibility in RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 12 “Please Come to Brazil!” The Practices of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Brazilian Fandom

Chapter 13 Reception of Queer Content and Stereotypes Among Young People in Monterrey, Mexico: RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 14 Mainstreaming the Transgressive: Greek Audiences’ Readings of Drag Culture Through the Consumption of RuPaul’s Drag Race

Chapter 16 Digital Extensions, Experiential Extensions and Hair Extensions: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the New Media Environment

Chapter 17 What Can Drag Do for Me? The Multifaceted Influences of RuPaul’s Drag Race on the Perth Drag Scene

Chapter 18 “If You Can’t Love Yourself, How in the Hell You Gonna Love Somebody Else?” Drag TV and Self-Love Discourse

Chapter 19 “We’re All Born Naked and the Rest Is Drag”: The Performativity of Bodies Constructed in Digital Networks