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Titel
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Sexuality and Masquerade.
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Erscheinungsjahr
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1996
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Verlagsort
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Sawtry
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Seitenanzahl
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274
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ISBN
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978-1-873982-07-5
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Sprache
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en
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Inhaltsangabe
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Secrecy and disclosure, desire and revelation, erotic performance and the pleasures of instability are the themes of Sexuality and Masquerade. Make up, masks, and masquerade, costume, cross dressing, erotic role-playing and fantasy all play in this carnivalesque cavalcade of radically unnatural gender acts and joyful celebration of the artifice of sexuality.Sexuality and Masquerade unfolds a historical repertoire of roles diverse enough to compass androgynous Romantic heroes and cross-dressing heroines, hermaphrodites and transvestites, lesbians in the nightwood of modernism, contemporary gender benders and postmodern creators of queer culture.In a seminal essay, The Masked Ball, Emma Wilson looks at the diversity of sexual identities. Her am is to trouble the boundaries between masculine and feminine, gay and straight, exploring the allure of the ambiguous and the tantalizing pleasure of gender trouble.The texts each enact a gender performance, leading the reaser through a drams whose central players range from Abertine to Orlando, La Zambinella to Tiresias. These performers of erotic acts emerge from texts by authors as diverse as Balzac, Angel Carter, Barthes, Gauthier, Genet, Georges Sand, Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin, Radchilde, Tournier, Wilde.The Dedalus Book of Sexual Ambiguity is, above all, a celebration of beauty, decadence and impossible desire.
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