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Ash Kayte Stokoe

The University of Birmingham, Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), Part-time Visiting Lecturer

University of Warwick, French Studies, Graduate Student

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Ash Kayte Stokoe is an early career academic, working in interdisciplinary gender studies. Ash's monograph 'Reframing Drag: Beyond Subversion and the Status Quo' is available with Routledge. Ash is currently working as a Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Supervisors: Oliver Davis

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Papers by Ash Kayte Stokoe

Sexological Discourses and the Self in Rachilde’s Monsieur Vénus (1884) and Radclyffe Hall’s the Well of Loneliness (1928)

Global Queer Politics, 2021

This chapter examines the mobilization of sexological discourses of ‘inversion’ in Rachilde’s Mon... more This chapter examines the mobilization of sexological discourses of ‘inversion’ in Rachilde’s Monsieur Venus and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. It argues that, given the temporal distance between these texts, their contextual specificities, and their strikingly different styles, a comparative analysis of Monsieur Venus and The Well of Loneliness can illustrate the significant shifts in medical thought toward ‘inversion’ between the 1880s and the late 1920s, while elucidating the literary uses of ‘inversion’ to explore what might now be termed sexuality and gender non-conformity. Significantly, this chapter argues that while the texts’ uses of sexological discourses appears dissimilar on the surface, both authors deftly deploy ‘inversion’ to achieve particular effects.

Are Drag Kings too Queer for London? From nineteenth-century ‘Male Impersonators’ to the Drag King of today.

Conference Presentations by Ash Kayte Stokoe

You Better Werk: Dragging Language, Imagery, and Praxis across Queer Performance Spaces in Three National Contexts’,

‘F**king the Body, Rewriting the Text: Proto-queer Gender Expression through Textual Drag in Wittig’s Le Corps Lesbien and Woolf’s Orlando’

Round table: The Work of Marie-Hélène Bourcier (influences, strategies, effects), with Marie-Hélène Sam Bourcier, Lucille Cairns (Chair), Lara Cox and Kayte Stokoe

How are we going to drag the body? Addressing Gendered Language and Corporeality in Monique Wittig's Le Corps Lesbien.

'Reframing Drag'

Publications by Ash Kayte Stokoe

‘Review of Disability in Science Fiction, ed. Kathryn Allan’ in Foundation, The International Review of Science Fiction 123, pp. 113-6.

Books by Ash Kayte Stokoe

Reframing Drag: Beyond Subversion and the Status Quo

Reframing Drag: Beyond Subversion and the Status Quo, 2019

Sexological Discourses and the Self in Rachilde’s Monsieur Vénus (1884) and Radclyffe Hall’s the Well of Loneliness (1928)

Global Queer Politics, 2021

This chapter examines the mobilization of sexological discourses of ‘inversion’ in Rachilde’s Mon... more This chapter examines the mobilization of sexological discourses of ‘inversion’ in Rachilde’s Monsieur Venus and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. It argues that, given the temporal distance between these texts, their contextual specificities, and their strikingly different styles, a comparative analysis of Monsieur Venus and The Well of Loneliness can illustrate the significant shifts in medical thought toward ‘inversion’ between the 1880s and the late 1920s, while elucidating the literary uses of ‘inversion’ to explore what might now be termed sexuality and gender non-conformity. Significantly, this chapter argues that while the texts’ uses of sexological discourses appears dissimilar on the surface, both authors deftly deploy ‘inversion’ to achieve particular effects.

Are Drag Kings too Queer for London? From nineteenth-century ‘Male Impersonators’ to the Drag King of today.

You Better Werk: Dragging Language, Imagery, and Praxis across Queer Performance Spaces in Three National Contexts’,

‘F**king the Body, Rewriting the Text: Proto-queer Gender Expression through Textual Drag in Wittig’s Le Corps Lesbien and Woolf’s Orlando’

Round table: The Work of Marie-Hélène Bourcier (influences, strategies, effects), with Marie-Hélène Sam Bourcier, Lucille Cairns (Chair), Lara Cox and Kayte Stokoe

How are we going to drag the body? Addressing Gendered Language and Corporeality in Monique Wittig's Le Corps Lesbien.

'Reframing Drag'

‘Review of Disability in Science Fiction, ed. Kathryn Allan’ in Foundation, The International Review of Science Fiction 123, pp. 113-6.

Reframing Drag: Beyond Subversion and the Status Quo

Reframing Drag: Beyond Subversion and the Status Quo, 2019