Gender Performativity and Cross Dressing through some Stagings of Genet’s The Maids

This article explores the concepts of cross dressing and gender performativity through the conceptualization of queer studies, exemplifying them with successive stagings of The Maids, by Jean Genet. It focuses specifically on Argentine directors, whose common feature lies not only in the dramatic te...

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Main Author: Ezequiel Lozano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2013-09-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
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Online Access:http://seer.ufrgs.br/presenca/article/view/39230/27104