DISCUSSION UNIT # 1:

SEXUAL DIFFERENCE: GENDER BENDING THROUGH COSTUME: DANDIES, CROSS-DRESSING, AND THE ANDROGYNE.                 Strategies FOR CHALLENGING GENDER

Problem of gender: How do we define gender, who defines it?

Historical time... vs. spaces of femininity

Artists:             Rosa Bonheur                    Romaine Brooks

                            Georgia O'Keeffe              Florine Stettheimer 

                           Frida Kahlo                        Meret Oppenheim

  READING ASSIGNMENTS:

##         Elliot and Wallace, Chapter 2, "Fleurs du Mal or Second-Hand Roses? Natalie Barney, Romanine                          Brooks, and the 'Originality of the Avant-Garde,' " 31-55 in Women Artists and Writers,

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  ##         Fillin-Yeh, Susan, "Dandies, Marginality and Modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp

                      and Other Cross-Dressers," Oxford Art Journal, v.18, no.2, 1995, 33-44.

                        [XEROXED COPY IN LIBRARY]

  ##          Garber, Marjorie (1992) Vested Interests: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety, New York: Harper

                      Perennial. [Elliot and Wallace B]

                  Introduction, "Clothes Make the Man," 1-17.

                        [LIBRARY: HQ 77 .G37 1992]   [XEROXED COPY IN LIBRARY]

  ##         Gubar, Susan. "Blessings in Disguise: Cross-Dressing as Re-Dressing for Female Modernists."

                         Massachusetts Review 22 (1981); 477-508. [Kahlo, Brooks, and literary figures]

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  ##         Kuhn, Annette, (1985) "Sexual Disguise and Cinema," Chapter 3, in The Power of the Image:

                        Essays on Representation adn Sexuality,  London and New York: Routledge and Kegan

                       Paul. 48-73.

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  ##           Langer, Sandra (1981) "Fashion, Character and Sexual Politics in Some Romaine Brooks Lesbian                               Portraits," Art Criticism 1: 25-40.

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  ##           Matlock, Jann, (.....) 'Masquerading Women, Pathologized Men: Cross-Dressing, Fetishism, and the

                         Theory of Perversion, 1882-1935, in Apter and Piez (eds.), Fetishism as Cultural Discourse,

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##              Placteau, Francette, "The Impossible Referent: Representations of the Androgyne," 62-84 in                             Formations of Fantasy, Eds. Vitor Burgin, James Donald. New York: Methuen. 1986.

  ##            Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, (1985)" The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Disorder and Gender Crisis                             1870-1936," in Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. New York: Alfred   

                        A. Knopf. 245-296  XEROX IN FILES:

  THIS ARTICLE GIVES A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PHASES OF NEW WOMEN FROM THE FIRST WAVE OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATED WOMEN AND THE SETTLEMENT HOUSES TO THE SECOND PHASE OF CROSS DRESSING LITERARY FIGURES COVERS NEW WOMEN, CROSS DRESSING, ANDROGYNY, AVANT-GARDE AND THE RISE OF MODERNISM       **************************************************************************************