Table of Contents

List of plates, List of contributors, Foreword by Susan B. Kaiser, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: masquerade and identities, 1. Reflections on mask and carnival, 2. Stigma, uncertain identity and skill in disguise, 3. Lesbian masks: beauty and other negotiations, 4. Fashion, fetish, fantasy, 5. Is womanliness nothing but a masquerade? An analysis of The Crying Game, 6. The scarf and the toothache: cross-dressing in the Jewish folk theatre, 7. The metamorphosis of the mask in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, 8. Masked and unmasked at the opera balls: Parisian women celebrate carnival, 9. On women and clothes and carnival fools, Index

About the Author

Efrat Tseëlon; Susan Kaiser