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Epistemology of the cross-dresser: Sexual politics in early modern England.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Epistemology of the cross-dresser: Sexual politics in early modern England./
Author:	Sedinger, Tracey.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1995,
Description:	134 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International57-04A.
Subject:	British and Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9538126
ISBN:	9798209218715

Epistemology of the cross-dresser: Sexual politics in early modern England.
Sedinger, Tracey.

Epistemology of the cross-dresser: Sexual politics in early modern England. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1995 - 134 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1995.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The dissertation examines crossdressing as a historical phenomenon in texts by Spenser and Shakespeare using psychoanalytic theories of the subject and sexual difference. In my first chapter, I examine the recent resurgence of a Foucauldian-inspired historicism whose emphasis on historical variation, local knowledge, and differential subject-positions has led to an epistemological and political impasse. I argue that a psychoanalytic epistemology offers an alternative framework in which to rethink the politics of subjectivity, especially in gender studies, which remains largely caught up in a sterile opposition between essentialism and social constructionism. In my second chapter, I argue that only theory of sexual difference which is not essential, and which avoids defining a socially constructed gender empirically, can account for the crossdresser's disruption of an epistemology which defines knowledge through perception. Crossdressing cannot therefore be easily assimilated to either a political or an apolitical reading, given its insistent disturbance of ideological closure. Nevertheless, many literary texts of the period employ the crossdresser to direct desire towards heterosexual and reproductive ends, to produce seemingly stable identities, and in the process to resolve larger tensions in the social order. My third and fourth chapters examine this logic as it functions in the middle books of Spenser's Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's As You Like It. I conclude by suggesting that the crossdresser, by splitting apart an ocularcentric epistemology upheld by Tudor and Stuart elites, produced a sodomitical desire which only loosely anticipated a sexuality defined by the sex of the desired object.

ISBN: 9798209218715Subjects--Topical Terms:

3433225
British and Irish literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Shakespeare, William

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