ABSTRACT
Contemporary US academic whose work has been very influential in opening up debates about queer, cross-dressing, and gender identity as culturally encoded. In 1987 she published Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance, but it was her Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992) that made her an international figure on the lesbian, gay, and queer cultural theory scene. She followed this with Dog Love (1996), Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (2000), Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses (2000), Academic Instincts (2001), and The Medusa Reader (2001).
