This work compares transvestism across cultures, in particular it compares transvestites in Britain with the Hijras of India. It considers how emotion, mythology, imagery, and beliefs influence ideas about sex and gender. The author challenges the straightforward binary divide t…
How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West so often seen as deviant or perverse, while they are accepted in other societies? What are the implications for the categories of male and female when consideri ng transvestism? Transvestis…
The changing room: Sex, drag and theatre
"Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American, queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive ass…
"Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American, queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive ass…
"Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American, queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive ass…
"Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American, queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive ass…
"Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American, queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive ass…
"Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American, queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive ass…
Jenny Nordberg a enquêté sur une pratique culturelle ancestrale, datant d'avant les talibans, ignorée en Europe, qui est celle des "bacha posh". Cette coutume est inconnue de la plupart des étrangers, même encore aujourd'hui, y compris chez les plus fins connaisseurs de ce pays.…
Jenny Nordberg a enquêté sur une pratique culturelle ancestrale, datant d'avant les talibans, ignorée en Europe, qui est celle des "bacha posh". Cette coutume est inconnue de la plupart des étrangers, même encore aujourd'hui, y compris chez les plus fins connaisseurs de ce pays.…
Casa Susanna is a fun and fabulous collection of found photography, shot some four decades ago, of a "safe haven" of weekend cross-dressers in the early 60s. While at a New York flea market, inveterate collectors Michel Hurst and Robert Swope discovered a large body of snapshots…
