Efrat Tseëlon

Masquerade and Identities (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides provocative and nuanced ways of thinking about masking and masquerade and shows that there is no such things as a single or 'true' identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134530700
• Artikelnr.: 42635915

Autorenporträt

Efrat Tseëlon; Susan Kaiser

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
List of contributors
Foreword by Susan B. Kaiser
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: masquerade and identities
1. Reflections on mask and carnival
2. Stigma
uncertain identity and skill in disguise
3. Lesbian masks: beauty and other negotiations
4. Fashion
fetish
fantasy
5. Is womanliness nothing but a masquerade? An analysis of The Crying Game
6. The scarf and the toothache: cross-dressing in the Jewish folk theatre
7. The metamorphosis of the mask in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London
8. Masked and unmasked at the opera balls: Parisian women celebrate carnival
9. On women and clothes and carnival fools
Index