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Vested interests : cross-dressing and cultural anxiety
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Title
Vested interests : cross-dressing and cultural anxiety / Marjorie Garber.
ISBN
0060975245
9780060975241
Edition
1st HarperPerennial ed.
Published
New York : HarperPerennial, 1993.
Physical Description
xiii, 443 pages, [40] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Bailey 687: Number line on title page verso indicates 1st printing: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1." Paperbound. Price labels affixed to front and back covers. From the library of Laura Bailey.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 20, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-425) and index.
Contents
Inroduction: 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: Transvestitism 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 Colour Line
The Chic of Araby: Transvestitism 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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