Wzorce ról [przeł. Przemysław Czapliński]

The author examines in depth the meaning of ‘drag’, claiming that the drag questions in toto the “natural” organisation of the system of gender roles. The performance of drag, reflects upon the performance of gender as fluid, being able to pass back and forth the roles of male and female; these roles are not inherited by worked out. If drag queens find gender roles easy to cross in the way they dress, act and perform, then sex roles are more than just genital sex. Newton writes that gay people know the possession of one type of genital equipment by no means guarantees the natural behaviour. Newton’s book by stressing the constructiveness and performativity of gender roles, became a crucial point of reference for scholars such as Judith Butler and Gayle Rubin.