Unsettling Assumptions : Tradition, Gender, Drag.

Contents -- Thematic Clusters -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye -- Chapter 1. Three Dark-Brown Maidens and the Brommtopp: (De)Constructing Masculinities in Southern Manitoba Mennonite Mumming / Marcie Fehr and Pauline Greenhill -- Chapter 2. Cutting a Thousand Sticks of Tobacco Makes a Boy a Man: Traditionalized Performances of Masculinity in Occupational Contexts / Ann K. Ferrell -- Chapter 3. "If Thou Be Woman, Be Now Man!" "The Shift of Sex" as Transsexual Imagination / Pauline Greenhill and Emilie Anderson-Grégoire -- Chapter 4. From Peeping Swans to Little Cinderellas: The Queer Tradition of the Brothers Grimm in American Cinema / Kendra Magnus-Johnston -- Chapter 5. Global Flows in Coastal Contact Zones: Selkie Lore in Neil Jordan's Ondine and Solveig Eggerz's Seal Woman / Kirsten Møllegaard -- Chapter 6. "Let's All Get Dixie Fried": Rockabilly, Masculinity, and Homosociality / Patrick B. Mullen -- Chapter 7. Man to Man: Placing Masculinity in a Legend Performed for Jean-François Bladé / William G. Pooley -- Chapter 8. Sexing the Turkey: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality at Thanksgiving / LuAnne Roth -- Chapter 9. Listening to Stories, Negotiating Responsibility: Exploring the Ethics of International Adoption through Narrative Analysis / Patricia Sawin -- Chapter 10. "What's under the Kilt?" Intersections of Ethnic and Gender Performativity / Diane Tye -- Chapter 11. "Composed for the Honor and Glory of the Ladies": Folklore and Medieval Women's Sexuality in The Distaff Gospels / Theresa A. Vaughan -- Chapter 12. "Just Like Coming to a Foreign Country:" Dutch Drag on a Danish Island / Anne B. Wallen -- Chapter 13. Encountering Ghost Princesses in Sou shen ji: Rereading Classical Chinese Ghost Wife Zhiguai Tales / Wenjuan Xie -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- About the Authors -- Index.