Performing sexualities in an Irish pub

Male Horror: On David Cronenberg

“…Wendt calls his list "The TPQ Top 10 List of Phenomena It Has Canonized as Performance." Three of the 10 items are related to gay male issues (Johnson, 1995;Meyer, 1995;Corey, 1996a). The list suggests that describing a phenomenon as performance has a canonizing effect, a suggestion not in keeping with the broader, egalitarian, quotidian conception of performance, including performance in everyday life, that funds the essays in question.…”

Disciplinary Violation as Gender Violation: The Stigmatized Masculine Voice of Performance Studies

“…Three of the 10 items are related to gay male issues (Johnson, 1995;Meyer, 1995;Corey, 1996a). Wendt calls his list "The TPQ Top 10 List of Phenomena It Has Canonized as Performance."…”

Doing whiteness: On the performative dimensions of race in the classroom

“…This study locates performances of racial identity and deconstructs them with the intention of undermining their social power. Performance is, as Corey (1996) reminds us, a powerful tool for understanding the social construction of difference.…”

“…In this site, students enact mundane performances of whiteness, while also interacting in a context where culture is commonly a topic of educational conversation. In order for me to locate everyday enactments of racial identity in the classroom, ethnography served as a critical and powerful method for uncovering and examining how participants communicatively construct identity (Braithwaite, 1997;Conquergood, 1994;Corey, 1996;Hartigan, 1997).…”