„Fantazje o kobiecości” i „queerowanie dragu”. Ciało w narracjach i występach polskich drag queens
“Fantasies about femininity” and the “queering of drag”: The body in the narrations and performances of Polish drag queens

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on etnographic research of the Polish drag scene. It focuses on the performers’ bodies as the crucial tools used in the performance to create a specific model of femininity. The masculine body is modeled, and often oppressed, to create the perfect illusion, which has to be completed in a performative act with the use of gesture, movement and style. The body itself is not only the canvas, on which an image of a woman is painted, but also a plane, where different models of gender cross paths. Increasingly, performers purposefully collide somatic styles and codes of masculinity and femininity on their own bodies in a subversive way – posing questions regarding the boundaries of sex and gender, of artificiality and artlessness and exploring the possibility of building one’s identity outside of the cultural system of significance.

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