Laurie A. Greene Livres

The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local the Miss’d America drag pageant. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens  presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now that  Rupaul’s Drag Race  has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss’d America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways.  Drag Queens and Beauty Queens  deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss’d America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.

Exploring the evolution of yoga in modern contexts, this book delves into the principles and practices that define contemporary yoga teaching. It emphasizes the importance of inclusivity, adaptability, and the integration of diverse traditions. The authors provide practical guidance for instructors, addressing common challenges and offering strategies to enhance the teaching experience. With insights on creating supportive environments and fostering student engagement, this resource is invaluable for both new and seasoned yoga teachers seeking to enrich their practice and pedagogy.

In New Orleans and the boroughs of New York City, varieties of Belizean Creole are spoken within immigrant communities. This text provides a grammatical description and comparison of these two expatriate varieties of the Caribbean Creole language, Belizean Creole. The grammar is unusual in that it incorporates cultural and social variables in the formal grammatical analysis, describing linguistic «performance» as well as communal «competence.» Two appendices are included containing an abridged Belizean Creole-English dictionary and a group of sample dialogues that have been phonetically transcribed and translated.