Sex, Drag, and Male Roles : Investigating Gender as Performance
Notes
This title offers the gender-bending performances of Dlane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops. This book documents and contextualizes the development of Torr’s internationally celebrated workshops, as well as her own ongoing experiments in performing gender-play in theaters, galleries, and clubs.
Artist / Author | Diane Torr |
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Editor | Stephen Bottoms |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
ISBN | 978-0-472-07102-9 |
Reference | P4221 |
Date | 2024 |
Type | Publication |
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