Vested interests, cross-dressing & cultural anxiety, Marjorie Garber
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Vested interests, cross-dressing & cultural anxiety, Marjorie Garber
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-425) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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Vested interests
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bibliography
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23973969
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Marjorie Garber
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Penguin social sciences
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cross-dressing & cultural anxiety
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Clothes make the man -- I. 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 -- II. 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 color line ; The chic of Araby : transvestism and the erotics of cultural appropriation ; The transvestite continuum : Liberace-Valentino-Elvis -- Conclusion a tergo: Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed
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