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Vested interests : cross-dressing & cultural anxiety / Marjorie Garber.
- Title
- Vested interests : cross-dressing & cultural anxiety / Marjorie Garber.
- Author
- Garber, Marjorie B.
- Publication
- New York : HarperPerennial, 1993.
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- Description
- xiii, 443 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Vested interests : cross-dressing and cultural anxiety
- Subject
- Note
- Hardcover ed. published: New York : Routledge, 1992.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-425) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0060975245 (pbk.) :
- LCCN
- ^^^92053405^
- OCLC
- 26314267
- SCSB-10243323
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library