Transvestophilia and gynemimesis: Performative strategies and feminist theory

Cultural Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 483-497

  Fensham, Rachel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Burlesque; Gender; Incomplete performance; Performance theory; Stereotypes; Transvestism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009071029     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502389600490291     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Bordo, Susan (1993) Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body, Berkeley: University of California Press.
2. Butler, Judith (1990a) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, New York: Routledge.
3. _ (1990b) 'Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory', in Sue Ellen Case (ed.), Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
4. _ (1993) Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex', New York: Routledge.
5. Davy, Kate (1989) 'Reading past the heterosexual imperative: dress suits to hire', TDK, 33(1), (T121) Spring: 153-70.
6. Dolan, Jill (1985) 'Gender impersonation onstage: destroying or maintaining the mirror of gender roles?', Women and Performance, 2(2)#4: 5-11.
7. Ellis, Havelock (1936) Studies in the Psychology of Sex, New York: Random House.
8. Fantasia, Josephine (forthcoming) 'Pantomimes and empires: J.C. Williamson's presentation of pantomimes 1883-1914', Ph.D. dissertation, Sydney University.
9. Ferris, Lesley (1993) Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross-Dressing, London: Routledge.
10. Fletcher, Nadia (1995) 'Reg Livermore: a laugh in the wilderness', Australasian Drama Studies, 29, April: 4-21.
11. Freedman, Barbara (1991) Staging the Gaze: Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis and Shakespearean Comedy, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
12. Freud, Sigmund (1991) 'Psychoanalytical notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia' (1911), trans. James Strachey, in Angela Richard (ed.), Case Histories 2, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
13. Garber, Marjorie (1992) Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, London: Routledge.
14. Gilbert, Sandra and Gubar, Susan (1988) 'Cross and re-dressing: transvestism as metaphor', in No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Vol. 2: Sexchanges, New Haven: Yale University Press.
15. Irigaray, Luce (1985) This Sex Which is Not One, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
16. Kaite, Berkeley (1988) 'The pornographic body double: transgression is the law', in Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (eds), Body Invaders: Sexuality and the Postmodern Condition, New York: Macmillan.
17. Kenna, Peter (1977) Drag Show: featuring Peter Kenna's 'Mates' and Steve J. Spears' 'The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin', Woollahra, New South Wales: Currency Press.
18. Lahr, John (1984) Automatic Vaudeville, London: Heinemann.
19. Moi, Toril (1985) Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, London: Routledge.
20. Money, John (1988) Gay, Straight and Inbetween: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation, New York: Oxford University Press.
21. Phelan, Peggy (1993) Unmarked: The Politics of Performance, New York: Routledge.
22. Riviere, Joan (1986) 'Womanliness as a masquerade', in Victor Burgin et al. (eds), Formations of Fantasy, London: Methuen (originally published in 1929).
23. Rubin, Gayle (1975) 'The traffic in women: notes on the "political economy" of sex', in Rayna Reiter (ed.), Towards an Anthropology of Women, New York and London: Monthly Review Press.
24. Showalter, Elaine (1987) 'Critical cross dressing; male feminists and the woman of the year', in Alice Jardine and Paul Smith (eds), Men in Feminism, New York: Methuen.
25. Weston, Kath (1993) 'Do clothes make the woman?: gender, performance theory, and lesbian eroticism', Genders, 17: 1-21.
26. Wittig, Monique (1976) The Leshian Body, trans. Peter Owen, New York: Avon.
27. _ (1992) 'One is not born a woman', in her The Straight Mind and Other Essays, Boston: Beacon Press.
28. Wright, Elizabeth (1989) Postmodern Brecht: A Re-Presentation, London: Routledge.
29. Zeig, Sande (1985) 'The actor as activator: deconstructing gender through gesture', Women and Performance, 2(4): 12-17.
30. Zeitlin, Froma (1981) 'Travesties of gender and genre in Aristophanes' "Thesmophoriazousae"', Critical Inquiry, 8: 301-27.
31. On Becoming (1993) Director Teresa Rizzo. Murdoch University and Film and Television Institute (Western Australia).
32. Paris is Burning (1990) Director Jennie Livingstone. Off White Productions, dist. Miramax.
33. Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Danztheater (1986) Director Chantal Akerman. A2-BRT-INA-RTBf-RMArts.
34. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) Director Stephen Elliot. Latent Image/Specific Films Production, dist. Polygram Filmed Entertainment.