The changing room: sex, drag, and theatre
The changing room: sex, drag and theatre
The changing room: Sex, drag and theatre
The changing room: sex, drag and the theatre
In The Changing Room, Laurence Senelick takes readers on a colourful, lavishly illustrated tour of the stages and dressing-rooms of history, from tribal rituals and sacred prostitution, to contemporary musical comedy and performance art. This wide ranging survey not only covers …
The changing room: sex, drag and theatre
The changing room: sex, drag, and theatre
The Changing Room traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. This is the first-ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism.
The changing room: sex, drag, and theatre
Whether it's Ziggy Stardust or a troupe of Kabuki actors, the evocative transvestite performer offers a subliminal homoerotic fantasy and provides the lasting image of the show long after its closing night. Theater historian and critic Senelick synthesizes an array of material f…
Introduction ; To hell and back (the present) ; Gisèle d'Estoc and World War II (the 1930s) ; A storm in a teacup and a bomb in a flowerpot (the 1890s) ; An interlude (no time in particular) ; Gisèle d'Estoc when she was real (the 1870s) ; Gisèle d'Estoc and who she wasn't (the …
"Gisèle d'Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of being a bomb-planting anarchist, the cross-dressing lover of writer Guy de Maupassant, and the fighter of at least one duel with anothe…