- Title
- Men in Women’s Clothes
- Creator
- Jones, Ward E
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/275658
- Identifier
- vital:55067
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12394"
- Description
- The descriptive phrase that comprises my title can refer both to a pervasive comic trope and a mode of self-expression. There is a tension here, insofar as the comic trope leads us not to take cross-dressing, or drag, seriously. The first half of the comic film Some Like It Hot (1959), with its cross-gender plot and its (sophisticated but) straightforward use of the comic trope of men-in-women’s clothes, appears to fall foul of this tension and to be susceptible to criticism in this regard. However, the film rectifies itself, portraying the cross-dressing relationship which develops through the second half of the film as a potentially meaningful one for both partners. In this article, I interpret the film as inviting its viewers to adopt a (particular kind of) skeptical ironic (that is, Pyrrhonian) attitude toward gender-presentation practices. While the film in no way attempts to discourage us from participating in such practices, it does invite us—through our partiality toward the characters Osgood and Jerry/Daphne, as we follow their budding, transgressive relationship—to acknowledge that a violation of gender-presentation practices can be a meaningful feature of sincere relationships.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (36 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Wiley Library Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Jones, W.E., 2020. Men in Women’s Clothes. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 58(4), pp.574-609, The Southern Journal of Philosophy volume 58 number 4 p. 574 2020 2041-6962
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- Closed Access
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