Drag Performance

• Drag : A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts / Roger Baker. NYU Press, 1995. 

• The Drag Queen Anthology : The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators / edited by Steven P. Schacht and Lisa Underwood.
• This is currently available as an ebook through ProQuest's Ebook Central, but it was
• also co-published simultaneously in the Journal of Homosexuality as Vol. 46, Issue 3-4 (2004), and you may prefer that platform for downloading PDFs of chapters.

• Gender Trouble : Feminism and the Subversion of Identity / Judith Butler. 1990, 1999.
• Available here to borrow in print and
• also to read online as an ebook and download passages as PDF.
  (The "Search Within" mention will allow you to find mentions of the word drag.)

The principal discussion of drag appears in part 3, section 4, "Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions," as well as somewhat in the prefaces.

• Bodies That Matter : On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" / Judith Butler. 1993. [print]

Addresses drag more than Butler's earlier Gender Trouble and is both a clarification of the earlier work and a response to criticism of it.

• Antitheatricality and the Body Public / Lisa A. Freeman. U of Penn Press, 2016. [ebook]

Explores the political stakes of battles over the theater.

• Preface to the Drag Queen Anthology (2004) by Judith Lorber
  (Two-page piece considering questions,"What are its core elements?...What is the joke in drag?")

• West, Candace, and Don H. Zimmerman. “Doing Gender.” Gender and Society 1, no. 2 (1987): 125–51.
  This 1987 article advancing "a new understanding of gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction" has since been cited at least 19,806 times.

• Sullivan-Blum, Constance R. "Balancing Acts : Drag Queens, Gender and Faith." Journal of Homosexuality 46, no. 3-4 (2004): 195-209.
  Also included in the aforementioned Drag Queen Anthology, this study focuses on four Christian "drag queens [who] insist on maintaining their identity as Christians despite the hegemonic discourse that renders faith and LGBT identities mutually exclusive [and have] developed innovative approaches to reconciling their gender and sexual identities with their spirituality [which] are potentially liberating not just for them personally, but for LGBT people generally because they challenge Christianity's rigid dichotomies of gender and sexuality."