TRANSVESTITES
Laurie Taylor turns his mind to sartorial matters: could it be that you are what you wear?
Dr Charlotte Suthrell author of Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture joins Laurie Taylor to discuss her cross-cultural study of UK and the Hijra transvestites in India.Ìý
Why do some men want to dress as women and why is British society so reluctant to accept this?
FROM THE DANDY TO THE DOLLY BIRD
Laurie Taylor also meets two experts on fashion, Professor Elizabeth Wilson and Professor Christopher Breward to talk about style and the city.Ìý
How and in what ways does fashion reflects changes in society and even pushes changes forward and is what we wear is related to where we live?
Additional information:
Christopher Breward
Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies, Ìý
Fashioning London, Clothing and the Modern Metropolis
Berg PublishersÌýISBN 1859737927
Elizabeth Wilson
Emeritus professor of cultural studies,
Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity
I.B.Tauris ISBN 1860649211
Dr Charlotte Suthrell
Scholar
Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture
Berg Publishers ISBN 1859737250
The Beaumont Society is a transgendered support group in the UK with a support network for the transgender, transvestite, transsexual and cross dressing community.
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