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Cross-Dressing and Transgender
2006In December 1954, Vincent (Violet) Jones and Joan Lee were each fined £25 at the local magistrates court, following their church wedding three months earlier in Catford, an ordinary working-class district of south London. Vincent’s cross-dressing as a man followed a long Western tradition of ‘female husbands’, but what marked it as peculiarly 1950s was
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1994
The two parts of The Honest Whore dramatise the formal and ideological compromises made in Dekker’s attempt to conflate the genres of city comedy and domestic melodrama. The representation of women, the theatrical tension between their exemplary function in a moral schema and their roles as the focus of sympathetic identification, was at the heart of ...
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The two parts of The Honest Whore dramatise the formal and ideological compromises made in Dekker’s attempt to conflate the genres of city comedy and domestic melodrama. The representation of women, the theatrical tension between their exemplary function in a moral schema and their roles as the focus of sympathetic identification, was at the heart of ...
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2020
This chapter focuses on M&W’s use of drag, analysing their appropriations of Antony and Cleopatra, which comically trouble both gender and sexual politics in the supposedly ‘permissive’ 1960s. Refusing to replicate simplistic caricatures and homophobic representations, the Boys embrace the many comic possibilities of ‘dragging up.’
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This chapter focuses on M&W’s use of drag, analysing their appropriations of Antony and Cleopatra, which comically trouble both gender and sexual politics in the supposedly ‘permissive’ 1960s. Refusing to replicate simplistic caricatures and homophobic representations, the Boys embrace the many comic possibilities of ‘dragging up.’
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2018
Directed by Peter Gill, the Royal Shakespeare Company's Twelfth Night of 1974 deserves much credit for popularising our widespread contemporary sense that the seaside dukedom of Illyria is ‘a land where human beings are all mirrors to each other, casting back reflections – whether identical, reversed, or absurdly distorted – that most fail to ...
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Directed by Peter Gill, the Royal Shakespeare Company's Twelfth Night of 1974 deserves much credit for popularising our widespread contemporary sense that the seaside dukedom of Illyria is ‘a land where human beings are all mirrors to each other, casting back reflections – whether identical, reversed, or absurdly distorted – that most fail to ...
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The Meanings of Cross-Dressing
1985In order to better understand the many sexual anomalies that involve the wearing of or at least the use of women’s attire by men, it is instructive to examine what clothes mean to the average person. Anthropologists long have recognized that throughout history almost all societies have a division of labor that is based on age and on sex.
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The Spectrum of Cross Dressing
1988We begin this chapter with a review of five heterosexual behavior patterns involving cross dressing: fetishism, fetishistic transvestism, marginal transvestism, transgenderism, and secondary transsexualism (TV type). The latter part of this chapter will describe four homosexual behavior patterns involving cross dressing: primary transsexualism ...
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