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Transvestism
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transvestism: see homosexuality homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing
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Transvestism
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dresses in women’s clothes to try to win discharge from the army. [Am. TV: M ° A ° S ° H in Terrace]


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Part 3, "Staging Clothes," examines the ways in which theatrical costume reveals contemporary assumptions about clothing as representational, whether of transvestitism, social tensions, or the dead.
At the 1997 trial, notable for tawdry details of transvestitism and kinky sex, Albert's attorneys wanted to bring up Perhach's alleged conduct with other men, particularly men who left her--as Albert, who was getting married, was about to do.
Is this selfconfidence just a form of transvestitism, a borrowed attitude?
 
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