Article: Forms of masquerade: the art of Dora Carrington.(roughly mid-19th century UK woman artist and feminist)

Beginning with French feminists such as Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva, critics have long been exploring ways that women artists embody themselves in their productions. At the same time, other critics have focused attention on the ways that texts - through overdetermined gendering of characters and plots - deconstruct any stable readings of the body. As a result, the "third sex," which Marjorie Garber claims the cross-dresser creates, echoes and problematizes Simone de Beauvoir's concept of a "second sex"; as Judith Butler maintains, drag is "the destabalization of gender itself, a destabalization that is denaturalizing and that calls into question the ...

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