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"Charlene (aka Charlie) Bader is one of society's least understood people - a heterosexual cross-dressing man. It's the 1930s in Texas when Charlie comes of age with urges he has struggled with since childhood and does not understand. After his new bride finds him wearing her own sexy lingerie and leaves him in disgust, he tries to move on. His efforts lead him to Chicago, where he stumbles on a community of cross-dressers and begins to attend their secret soirees. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, he volunteers for the army, serving as a dentist and trying once again to leave his obsession with soft clothes behind. Instead, his wartime experiences combined with the Army's faulty record-keeping lead to his reappearance in the small town of Heaven, Indiana, as Charlene. There, Charlene opens a beauty shop where Heaven's women safely share their stories and secrets as she shampoos, clips, curls, and combs their hair. Charlene deftly manages to keep her own story hidden and her sexual desires quiet until she falls in love with a female customer and her life begins to change."--

Gender identity --- Cross-dressing --- Crossdressing --- Eonism --- Transvestism --- Paraphilias --- Chinese --- Fathers and sons --- Ethnology

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Hopeless Love uncovers the diffusion of queer female desire in Italian literature and promotes a better understanding of sexuality in medieval and Renaissance Europe.

Lesbianism in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Transvestism in literature. --- Italian literature --- Transvestism in literature --- History and criticism. --- Boiardo, Matteo Maria, --- Ariosto, Lodovico, --- Boiardo, Mattheo Maria, --- Bojardo, Matteo Maria, --- Boyardo, Matteo Maria, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cross-dressing in literature. --- Gender nonconformity --- In literature. --- Gender variance (Gender nonconformity) --- Genderqueer --- Non-binary gender --- TGNC (Transgender and gender nonconformity) --- Transgenderism --- Gender expression --- Gender identity

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This collection of original essays explores the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range. Topics cove- red include anthropology, history, literature.

Sex role. --- Gender identity. --- Transvestism. --- Transsexualism. --- Taboo. --- Androgyny (Psychology) --- Androgynous behavior --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Sex role --- Purity, Ritual --- Religion --- Sacrilege --- Transexualism --- Transexuality --- Transsexuality --- Gender nonconformity --- Transvestism --- Crossdressing --- Eonism --- Psychosexual disorders --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Gender role --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Gender identity --- Paraphilias --- Cross-dressing. --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Gender dysphoria

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film --- Film --- Acting --- Female impersonators. --- Feminism and theater. --- Impersonation. --- Male impersonators. --- Sex role in literature. --- Theater and society. --- Theater --- Transvestism. --- Casting. --- 792 --- 82-2 --- Theater. Theaterwetenschap. Toneel --- Toneel. Drama --- 82-2 Toneel. Drama --- 792 Theater. Theaterwetenschap. Toneel --- Female impersonators --- Feminism and theater --- Impersonation --- Male impersonators --- Sex role in literature --- Theater and society --- Transvestism --- Crossdressing --- Eonism --- Psychosexual disorders --- Casting (Performing arts) --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Cross-dressers (Male impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Male impersonators) --- Drag kings --- Impersonators, Male --- Impersonators of men --- Kings, Drag --- Actresses --- Comedy --- Imitation --- Theater and feminism --- Cross-dressers (Female impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Female impersonators) --- Drag queens --- Impersonators, Female --- Impersonators of women --- Queens, Drag --- Casting --- Production and direction --- Social status --- Social aspects --- 82-2 Drama. Plays --- Drama. Plays --- 792 Theatre. Stagecraft. Dramatic performances --- Theatre. Stagecraft. Dramatic performances --- Paraphilias --- Persons

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Opera developed during a time when the position of women-their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality-was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts-by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus-form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).

Women in opera. --- Opera --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- History and criticism --- 17th century. --- androgyny. --- antiquity. --- callisto. --- carthage. --- cavalli. --- chastity. --- classical. --- classicism. --- desire. --- dido. --- diodorus siculus. --- drama. --- empress. --- erotic. --- female characters. --- female power. --- female vocality. --- feminism. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- messalina. --- monteverdi. --- music. --- musicology. --- mythological women. --- mythology. --- nonfiction. --- nymph. --- octavia. --- opera women. --- opera. --- ovid. --- pallavicino. --- performing arts. --- purity. --- semiramis. --- sexuality. --- tacitus. --- theater. --- transvestism. --- venetian opera. --- virgil. --- women. --- womens rights. --- ziani.