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Rich in anecdote and insight, vested interests offers a provocative and entertaining view of our ongoing obsession with dressing upand with the power of clothes. Here, dillwyns rioters blend race, gender, and the supernatural. Beginning with the bold claim, there can be no culture without the transvestite, marjorie garber explores the nature and significance of crossdressing and of the wests recurring fascination with it. Crossdressing and cultural anxiety 1 by garber, marjorie isbn. The appeal of crossdressing is clearly related to its status as a sign of the constructedness of gender categories. Current disease with that anxiety and a desire to establish more nourish. Garber born june 11, 1944 is a professor at harvard university and the author of a wide variety of books, most notably ones about william shakespeare and.
This is the second part of an interview i did with brian who is a crossdresser and uses alyssa as his femme name. Crossdressing and culture in modern japan ma yuxin. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Crossdressing is about the anxiety of economic or cu ltural dislocation. Vested interests 34 it is curious to note how many literary and cultural critics have recently studies the phenomenon of crossdressing in literature from the renaissance to high modernism.