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The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance)

The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance) Paperback - 2000

by Senelick, Laurence

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  • Title The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance)
  • Author Senelick, Laurence
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date 2000-05-22
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR010069946
  • ISBN 9780415159869 / 0415159865
  • Weight 3.33 lbs (1.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.69 x 7.49 x 1.22 in (24.61 x 19.02 x 3.10 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Gender identity, Male impersonators
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99054089
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.086

From the publisher

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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Citations

  • Library Journal, 08/01/2000, Page 108

About the author

Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University. He is the recipient of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His many publications include lovesick (1998), The Chekhov Theatre, and the Age and Stage of George L. Fox.

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