Masquerade and Identities Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality

Name: Masquerade and Identities Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality
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ISBN: 9780415251051

ISBN-10: 0415251052

ISBN-13: 9780415251051

Edition: 2001

Authors: Efrat Tseï¿½lon, Efrat Tseï¿½lon

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Masquerade is now a central topic in many disciplines. This text explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing, or representing marginalised identities.

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/26/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Ana Marta Gonzï¿½lez is professor of moral philosophy at the University of Navarra, Spain. Efrat Tselonis editor in chief of the journalCritical Studies in Fashion and Beautyandthe author ofThe Masque of FemininityandMasquerade & Identities.



List of plates


List of contributors


Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction: masquerade and identities




Reflections on mask and carnival




Stigma, uncertain identity and skill in disguise




Lesbian masks: beauty and other negotiations




Fashion, fetish, fantasy




Is womanliness nothing but a masquerade? An analysis of The Crying Game




The scraf and the toothache: cross-dressing in the Jewish folk theatre




The metamorphosis of the mask in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century London




Masked and unmasked at the opera balls: Parisian women celebrate carnival




On women and clothes and carnival fools



Index