En Travesti: Women Gender Subversion Opera Terry Castle, Hélène Cixous HARDCOVER

Description: En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera Edited byCorrine Blackmerand Patricia Juliana SmithColumbia U.P., 1995 En Travesti addresses the ways in which opera empowers women by challenging conventional gender hierarchies. Terry Castle, Hélène Cixous, Lowell Gallagher and Elizabeth Wood are among the contributors. Includes 20 musical examples. Celebrates opera as a medium that empowers female desire and undermines the heterosexist hierarchies its plots would seem to perpetuate. The impressive group of authors in this collection-literary critics, musicologists, philosophers, reexamine not only operas ranging from Monteverdi to Gertrude Stein but also the complex relationships between divas and their female fans. A stunning contribution to cultural studies, feminism, and music criticism. From Library JournalIn these 12 interdisciplinary, mostly accessible scholarly essays, opera-loving Engish professors and teachers of women's studies courses tell of their favorite trouser roles in opera, question received notions about historic divas, and more. Lesbian music scholar Judith Peraino identifies herself with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas because it is "Other"?other than "real" opera, that is, because it bore no offspring in English operatic history and was written for girls to perform. "Queer" musicologist Mitchell Morris identifies himself with Countess Geschwitz in Berg's Lulu and speculates about the composer's sexual secrets in frankly gossipy style. A lesbian-oriented companion to Wayne Koestenbaum's The Queen's Throat (LJ 1/93), and the other side of the story told by Catherine Clement's Opera, or the Undoing of Women (Univ. of Minnessota Pr., 1988), this latest volume in Columbia's well-regarded series is recommended for academic collections as well as public libraries serving patrons who seriously love to argue over opera.

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