Marjorie Garber

Vested Interests

Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 180mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1086g
• ISBN-13: 9780415919517
• ISBN-10: 0415919517
• Artikelnr.: 21106623

Autorenporträt

Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Tranvestite Logics
Chapter 1 Dress Codes, or the Theatricality of Difference
Chapter 2 Cross-Dress for Success
Chapter 3 The Transvestite¿s Progress
Chapter 4 Spare Parts
Chapter 5 Fetish Envy
Chapter 6 Breaking the Code
Part 2 Transvestite Effects
Chapter 7 Fear of Flying, or Why is Peter Pan a Woman?
Chapter 8 Cherchez La Femme
Chapter 9 Religious Habits
Chapter 10 Phantoms of the Opera
Chapter 11 Black and White TV
Chapter 12 The Chic of Araby
Chapter 13 The Transvestite Continuum Liberace-Valentino-Elvis
Chapter 14 Conclusion A Tergo