Contents

Thematic Clusters

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye

1 Three Dark-Brown Maidens and the Brommtopp: (De)Constructing Masculinities in Southern Manitoba Mennonite Mumming

Marcie Fehr and Pauline Greenhill

2 Cutting a Thousand Sticks of Tobacco Makes a Boy a Man: Traditionalized Performances of Masculinity in Occupational Contexts

Ann K. Ferrell

3 “If Thou Be Woman, Be Now Man!” “The Shift of Sex” as Transsexual Imagination

Pauline Greenhill and Emilie Anderson-Grégoire

4 From Peeping Swans to Little Cinderellas: The Queer Tradition of the Brothers Grimm in American Cinema

Kendra Magnus-Johnston

5 Global Flows in Coastal Contact Zones: Selkie Lore in Neil Jordan’s Ondine and Solveig Eggerz’s Seal Woman

Kirsten Møllegaard

6 “Let’s All Get Dixie Fried”: Rockabilly, Masculinity, and Homosociality

Patrick B. Mullen

7 Man to Man: Placing Masculinity in a Legend Performed for Jean-François Bladé

William G. Pooley

8 Sexing the Turkey: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality at Thanksgiving

LuAnne Roth

9 Listening to Stories, Negotiating Responsibility: Exploring the Ethics of International Adoption through Narrative Analysis

Patricia Sawin

10 “What’s under the Kilt?” Intersections of Ethnic and Gender Performativity

Diane Tye

11 “Composed for the Honor and Glory of the Ladies”: Folklore and Medieval Women’s Sexuality in The Distaff Gospels

Theresa A. Vaughan

12 “Just Like Coming to a Foreign Country:” Dutch Drag on a Danish Island

Anne B. Wallen

13 Encountering Ghost Princesses in Sou shen ji: Rereading Classical Chinese Ghost Wife Zhiguai Tales

Wenjuan Xie

Bibliography

Filmography

About the Authors

Index