Vested interests : cross-dressing and cultural anxiety
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書誌事項
Vested interests : cross-dressing and cultural anxiety
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 1993
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-425) and index
Originally published: New York ; London : Routledge, 1992
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"Vested Interests" focuses on the relationship between the aesthetic and the existential, from Shakespeare to Peter Pan and "M. Butterfly", from transsexual surgery and societies for transvestites and transsexuals, to Madonna, Michael Jackson, and even Elvis. Garber establishes that transvestism, far from being a marginal and socially deviant practice, in fact makes culture possible by marking the entrance to the symbolic. Citing the recurrence of transvestite theatre throughout different eras and cultures, Garber views the transvestite as a reiteration of the theatre's underlying problem of representation, because the transvestite acknowledges that every figure on stage is an "impersonator". By examining transvestism's varied social manifestations, the book addresses issues of gender, sexuality, race and class. The argument is illustrated with examples: the sumptuary laws of medieval and early modern Europe, the little-known "transvestite tales" of Mark Twain and the public furore over an art student's portrayal of late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington wearing women's lingerie. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics.
目次
- Part 1 Transvestite logics: dress codes, or the theatricality of difference
- cross-dress for success
- the transvestite's progress
- spare parts - the surgical construction of gender
- fetish envy
- breaking the code - transvestism and gay identity. Part 2 Transvestite effects: fear of 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
- black and white TV - cross-dressing the colour line
- the chic of araby - transvestitism and the erotics of cultural appropriation
- the transvestite continuum - Liberace-Valentino-Elvis.
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