Author(s)

Shuya Hao, Weili Zi^*

School of Language and Culture, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing, China.

From the gender perspective of Androgyny and Camp theory, the images of cross-dressers in film and television or literary works in this paper are analyzed and discussed in terms of the two aspects of cross-dressing culture, including the great revelry and dangerous boundary of Androgyny. The result of the analysis indicates that the study of the Androgyny—a unique aesthetic temperament in cross-dressers, breaks the consistency between male and female in physiological and social gender to a certain extent, blurs the social differences between the two sexes with strict boundary, and increases the public acceptance and tolerance of the phenomenon of “cross-dressing”. The discussion of paper can be used for reference in breaking the traditional gender model of dualistic opposition and pursuing gender harmony, which provides a new direction for other scholars for the further research.

Androgyny, Camp, Gender, Image of Cross-Dressing

Hao, S. and Zi, W. (2019) Research on Images of Cross-Dresser from the Perspective of Androgyny. Chinese Studies, 8, 92-102. doi: 10.4236/chnstd.2019.83008.