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An introduction to some of the fundamental texts and concepts of gender theory through the study of representations, literary and art historical, of dress. From cross-dressing in Shakespeare and George Sand, Baudelaire’s Dandy, to Woolf’s notion of “frock consciousness,” Hwang’s Mr. Butterfly, and Cindy Sherman’s parodies. Theoretical readings in Barthes, Laqueur, Lacan, Garber, Butler, Potts, Lee.