TRANSVESTOPHILIA AND GYNEMIMESIS - PERFORMATIVE STRATEGIES AND FEMINIST THEORY

Authors
FENSHAM R
Citation
R. Fensham, TRANSVESTOPHILIA AND GYNEMIMESIS - PERFORMATIVE STRATEGIES AND FEMINIST THEORY, Cultural studies, 10(3), 1996, pp. 483-497
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Communication,"Art & Humanities General
Journal title
Cultural studies → ACNP
ISSN journal
09502386
Volume
10
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
483 - 497
Database
ISI
SICI code
0950-2386(1996)10:3<483:TAG-PS>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
This article considers cross-dressing within feminist and cultural the ory from the perspective of performance. It offers a close reading of the materiality of particular examples of transvestism, mostly drawn f rom the Australian context. The specificity of these performances reve als that bodies can both reproduce and fail to comply with discursive regimes of gender.