Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415900727 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 498 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Photos. She states that "there can be no culture without the transvestite," who, she argues, calls attention to cultural, social or aesthetic dissonances. The weight of her thesis is carried by such figures as Liberace, Divine, Oscar Wilde and David Bowie, yet her witty, consistently provocative study demonstrates effectively how cross-dressing is wrapped up with recognition of the power of women, androgyny, responses to gay identity and anxiety over economic or cultural dislocations. From Publishers Weekly From the "transvestite theatre" of Shakespearean England and Japan's kabuki to Peter Pan, Boy George and female Elvis impersonators, cross-dressing is a pervasive social phenomenon, claims Garber, director of Harvard's Center of Literary and Cultural Studies. . Garber also looks at transsexuals, drag performances, plays and movies. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc
A Customer said crossdressing & acadamic insight. first off, i can't say i would recommend this book to someone who doesn't have a more academic background, flitting as it does from foucault to freud & back again, but i have to say that it's critique & thesis are well-reasoned, well-argued, & definitely well-referenced! it's like a cross dressing field guide in some ways i found myself making up a list of movies/books to check out. even moreso, it's a great book for anyone wanting to study gender construction in general as it gets at that shadowy figure inbetween the genders, who belies/affirms all the constructsthank you marjorie garber!. Accumulating Dust, But Some Parts Still Worth More Than Just 3 Stars Bonam Pak I read the original 1992 hardcover edition. Which means, this book is dated. Definitely missing yet is for example the concept of metrosexuality. The newest films analyzed are Tootsie (1982) and Yentl (1983), already a decade old when this book was published.Marjorie Garber uses a very rich vocabulary, some of which I was even able to stump internet dictionaries with. On the other hand, she uses unintended racist vocabulary. She may have known better in 1992.Many parts of the 390-paged book (+ 35 pages of footnotes and 38 picture pages, some of which are in color) are very interesting to read. Usually. CROSS-DRESSING AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Marjorie GarberVested Interests:Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety(New York: Routledge, 1992) CROSS-DRESSING AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON James L. Park Marjorie GarberVested Interests:Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety(New York: Routledge, 1992) 443 pages(ISBN: 0-415-90072-7; hardcover)(Library of Congress call number: HQ77.G37 1991) A wide-ranging book on the public manifestationsof wearing the clothes and adopting the manners of the other sex,especially as seen in the mass media--television, movies, magazines.Cross-dressing for the following reasons:entertainment in the theatre and movies;respect in the workplace;to express the other-gender side of one's personality;for personal sexual interest, arousal, & orgasm;as an element of one's homosexual . CROSS-DRESSING AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON James L. Park Marjorie GarberVested Interests:Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety(New York: Routledge, 1992) 443 pages(ISBN: 0-415-90072-7; hardcover)(Library of Congress call number: HQ77.G37 1991) A wide-ranging book on the public manifestationsof wearing the clothes and adopting the manners of the other sex,especially as seen in the mass media--television, movies, magazines.Cross-dressing for the following reasons:entertainment in the theatre and movies;respect in the workplace;to express the other-gender side of one's personality;for personal sexual interest, arousal, & orgasm;as an element of one's homosexual . 3 pages(ISBN: 0-CROSS-DRESSING AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON James L. Park Marjorie GarberVested Interests:Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety(New York: Routledge, 1992) 443 pages(ISBN: 0-415-90072-7; hardcover)(Library of Congress call number: HQ77.G37 1991) A wide-ranging book on the public manifestationsof wearing the clothes and adopting the manners of the other sex,especially as seen in the mass media--television, movies, magazines.Cross-dressing for the following reasons:entertainment in the theatre and movies;respect in the workplace;to express the other-gender side of one's personality;for personal sexual interest, arousal, & orgasm;as an element of one's homosexual . 15-90072-7; hardcover)(Library of Congress call number: HQ77.G37 1991) A wide-ranging book on the public manifestationsof wearing the clothes and adopting the manners of the other sex,especially as seen in the mass media--television, movies, magazines.Cross-dressing for the following reasons:entertainment in the theatre and movies;respect in the workplace;to express the other-gender side of one's personality;for personal sexual interest, arousal, & orgasm;as an element of one's homosexual
Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with it. Rich in anecdote and insight, Vested Interests offers a provocative and entertaining view of our ongoing obsession with dressing up--and with the power of clothes.