Vested interests : cross-dressing and cultural anxiety /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garber, Marjorie B., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • TRANSVESTITE LOGICS Dress codes, or the theatricality of difference. Cross-dress for sucess. The transvestite's progress. Spare parts: the surgical construction of gender. Fetish envy. Breaking the code: transvestism and gay identity.
  • TRANSVESTITE EFFECTS Fear the flying, or why is Peter Pan a woman? Cherchez la femme: cross-dressing in detective fiction. Religious habits. Phantoms of the opera: actor, diplomat, transvestite, spy Blach and white TV: cross-dressing the color line. The chic of Araby: transvestism and the erotics of cultural appropriation. The transvestite continuum: Liberace-Valentino-Elvis. Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in bed.