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Byxbegär

Rosenberg, Tiina LU (2000)
Abstract
This book is a study of the construction of gender and desire in trouser roles in both spoken theatre and opera.The long-term presence of cross-dressing in Western theatre history and its specific articulations in performanings arts have been an important part of the discourse in Gender Studies since the 1980's. The trouser role, a woman en travesti, literally in male drag, sings and looks like (in theory at least)a man, but sounds like and in fact, is, a woman. This act of cross-dressing makes same-sex desire visible and leads to a number of questions, which many have contemplated upon but few have cared (or dared) to answer.
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alternative title
Desiring Pants
publishing date
type
Book/Report
publication status
published
subject
keywords
trouser roles, cross-dressing, opera, theatre, queer, lesbian, voice, vocality, mezzosoprano
pages
202 pages
publisher
Anamma förlag
ISBN
91-87894-92-0
language
Swedish
LU publication?
no
id
a236b898-fad7-4f13-b961-653a8183bed9 (old id 1393843)
date added to LUP
2016-04-04 10:59:35
date last changed
2018-11-21 21:02:00
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