Vested Interests Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety

Name: Vested Interests Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
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ISBN: 9780415919517

ISBN-10: 0415919517

ISBN-13: 9780415919517

Edition: 1992

Authors: Marjorie Garber

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Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with it. Vested Interests is a tour de force of cultural criticism: its investigations range across history, literature, film, photography, and popular and mass culture, from Shakespeare to Mark Twain, from Oscar Wilde to Peter Pan, from transsexual surgery and transvestite "sororities" to Madonna, Flip Wilson, Rudolph Valentino and Elvis Presley. What, Garber asks, does clothing have to do with sexuality? How do dress codes contribute to the organization of society? How is passing as a man or a…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/25/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 498
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Introduction List of Plates



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



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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