ISBN:
9780415251051
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (201 p.)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Masquerade and Identities : Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; List of contributors; Foreword by Susan B. Kaiser; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: masquerade and identities; Reflections on mask and carnival; Stigma, uncertain identity and skill in disguise; Lesbian masks: beauty and other negotiations; Fashion, fetish, fantasy; Is womanliness nothing but a masquerade? An analysis of The Crying Game; The scarf and the toothache: cross-dressing in the Jewish folk theatre; The metamorphosis of the mask in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century London
Description / Table of Contents:
Masked and unmasked at the opera balls: Parisian women celebrate carnivalOn women and clothes and carnival fools; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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