En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera (UK)

Author/Contributor(s):	Blackmer, Corrine
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	11/23/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Since the release of Wayne Koestenbaum's book, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, gender studies has begun to take an active interest in music. Opera, long viewed as strictly an establishment tradition, has in particular been given a second look by gender theorists. Can opera - an antiquated, Eurocentric bastion of high culture - in fact be subverting patriarchal authority in some fundamental way?