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Masquerade and Identities: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality

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Author(s): Efrat TseA«lon
Edition: 1
Year: 2001

Language: English
Pages: 208

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of plates......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 12
Foreword by Susan B. Kaiser......Page 14
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgements......Page 20
Introduction: masquerade and identities......Page 22
Reflections on mask and carnival......Page 39
Stigma, uncertain identity and skill in disguise......Page 59
Lesbian masks: beauty and other negotiations......Page 75
Fashion, fetish, fantasy......Page 94
Is womanliness nothing but a masquerade? An analysis of The Crying Game......Page 104
The scarf and the toothache: cross-dressing in the Jewish folk theatre......Page 122
The metamorphosis of the mask in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century London......Page 135
Masked and unmasked at the opera balls: Parisian women celebrate carnival......Page 156
On women and clothes and carnival fools......Page 174
Index......Page 196