Sunday 19 June 2011

Gender Performance

Womanliness as masquerade 1929

'Women with masculine ambition had to hide behind a façade of femininity so as to avoid retribution by men: Womanliness therefore can be assumed and worn as a mask both to hide the possession of masculinity and to avert the repercussions espected if she was found to possess it

J Entwistle, The Fashioned Body, Fashion and Gender p179

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