An edition of Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
(1979)
Dressing up, transvestism and drag
the history of an obsession
First edition
by Peter Ackroyd
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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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Dressing up, transvestism and drag: the history of an obsession
1979, Simon and Schuster
Hardcover
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Dressing up: transvestism and drag, the history of an obsession
1979, Thames & Hudson
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Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
1979, Thames & Hudson
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Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
1979, Thames & Hudson
Paperback
in /languages/eng
0500271690 9780500271698
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Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
1979, Thames and Hudson, Simon and Schuster
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0500012156 9780500012154
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Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
Publish date unknown, Thames and Hudson Ltd
Hardcover
0500012156 9780500012154
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Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
Publish date unknown, Thames and Hudson
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