Title: Masquerade and identities : essays on gender, sexuality, and marginality /
Authors: Tseëlon, Efrat.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Masks Symbolic aspects; Masks Psychological aspects.; Masquerades.; Disguises.; Sex role; Marginality, Social.
Contents: Reflections on mask and carnival / Efrat Tseëlon -- Stigma, uncertain identity and skill in disguise / Christie Davies -- Lesbian masks : beauty and other negotiations / Halla Beloff -- Fashion, fetish, fantasy / Valerie Steele -- Is womanliness nothing but a masquerade? An analysis of The crying game / Alkeline van Lenning, Saskia Maas and Wendy Leeks -- The scarf and the toothache : cross-dressing in the Jewish folk theatre / Ahuva Belkin -- The metamorphosis of the mask in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London / Christoph Heyl -- Masked and unamsked at the opera balls : Parisian women celebrate carnival / Ann Ilan-Alter -- On women and clothes and carnival fools / Efrat Tseëlon.