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Why Transvestites Make Other People Nervous

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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
zs25x871q
Collection
Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
Institution
Digital Transgender Archive
Creator(s)
Kakutani, Michiko
Publisher
The New York Times
Date Issued
Jan. 24, 1992
Genre
Clippings
Subject(s)
Abbé de Choisy
Cultural Anxiety
Henry David Hwang
M. Butterfly
Marjorie Garber
Shi Pei Pu
Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
Topic(s)
Androgyny
Crossdressing
Drag
Gender ambiguity
Gender bending
LGBTQ+ books
Race relations
Transvestites
Resource Type
Text
Language
English
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