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Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature

CHESS, SIMONE
TAYLOR & FRANCIS
01 / 2019
9780367210472
978-03-6721-047-2
Inglês
Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Estudios literarios: general
Ingles
Inglaterra

Sinopse

This book examines male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender-that crossdressers' genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. These relational representations show that the crossdresser often benefits financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation. The book makes a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied, and queer-feminine representations in conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.