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The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre

The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre

Senelick, Laurence

Hardcover

Series: Gender in Performance

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyTheater History

ISBN10: 041510078X
ISBN13: 9780415100786
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 22 2000
Pages: 560
Weight: 3.76
Height: 1.51 Width: 7.75 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room, which traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. It examines: * tribal rituals and shamanic practices in the Balkans and Chinese-Tibet * the gender-bending elements of Greek and early Christian religion * the homosexual appeal of the boy actor on the traditional stage of China, Japan and England * the origins of the dame comedian, the principal boy, the glamour drag artiste and the male impersonator * artists such as David Bowie, Boy George, Charles Ludlam, Dame Edna Everage, Lily Savage, Candy Darling, Julian Clary and the New York Dolls. Lavishly illustrated with unusual and rare pictures, this is the first ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism. It is a must for anyone interested in cross-dressing, theatre, and gender.

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