Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts by Roger Baker

Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts

Roger Baker

312 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative slow-paced
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Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of travestism can ...

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