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The Body And The Bedroom: Life And Death At The Shrines Of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Katie Berchak-Irby
The Body And The Bedroom: Life And Death At The Shrines Of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Katie Berchak-Irby
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
How do we define “sacred space”? I suggest that sacred spaces are not sacred for reasons geographers have traditionally accepted - due to connections to a religion’s creation myth, holy person, or event. Instead, places are made sacred by the negotiations of the sacred made there by visitors – mostly women – who visit scared spaces. Through ethnographic and autoethnographic research at the shrines of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in Washington Heights, New York City, New York and Cabrini High School, New Orleans, Louisiana, I explore what makes shrines sacred for the women who visit them and how they use …
Glue Sticks And Gaffs: Disassembling The Drag Queening Body, Ray Siebenkittel
Glue Sticks And Gaffs: Disassembling The Drag Queening Body, Ray Siebenkittel
LSU Master's Theses
Drag queening men, typically gay men who perform femininities for entertainment, use makeup, padding, injections and other tools to change their bodies for performance. I focus on the backstage activities of drag performers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, rather than conventional observations from the audience, to explore the negotiation, construction and implications of these bodies, both physically and discursively. Through autoethnographic accounts and participating in my own drag performance, I highlight the often unseen, less frequently discussed aspects of drag queening in order to lessen the distance between the efforts of performers and the stage. Drag queening men’s bodies are a …