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Dressing UpPeter Ackroyd
Historical

Dressing Up

160 pagesFirst published 19793 editions
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Dressing Up explores the fascinating and complex phenomena of Transvestism (cross dressing by heterosexuals who admire and identify with the opposite sex) and Drag (cross dressing by male homosexuals who adorn themselves in the highly exaggerated dress and makeup of the vamp in an expression of parody and misogyny). It is an examination of the profound psychological significance underlying most cross dressing: as erotic experience; as the expression of longing for identification with women while maintaining one's maleness; and as fetishistic impulse. —book jacket

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionThames and Hudson19791609780500012154
PaperbackThames & Hudson19791609780500271698
HardcoverSimon and Schuster19791609780671250911
Transgender peopletransgenderqueertransvestismdraghomosexualitysociologyqueer history