Digital Transgender Archive
Why Transvestites Make Other People Nervous
This is a clipping from the New York Times that is a book review for Marjorie Garber's "Vested Interest: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety" which talks about gender variance icons in popular media at the time. Mentioned in it is the play Henry David Hwang's "M. Butterfly" which is based on the life of Shi Pei Pu.
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- Identifier
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- Collection
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Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
- Institution
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Digital Transgender Archive
- Creator(s)
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Kakutani, Michiko
- Publisher
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The New York Times
- Date Issued
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Jan. 24, 1992
- Genre
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Clippings
- Subject(s)
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Abbé de Choisy
Cultural Anxiety
Henry David Hwang
M. Butterfly
Marjorie Garber
Shi Pei Pu
Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
- Topic(s)
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Androgyny
Crossdressing
Drag
Gender ambiguity
Gender bending
LGBTQ+ books
Race relations
Transvestites
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Text
- Language
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English
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