Abstract

The records of student societies show that cross-dressing was a very popular practice at Cambridge University from the second half of the nineteenth century not only in drama but at a wide range of social events. Male and female students were segregated from one another in single-sex colleges because of the perceived moral dangers of co-education. One result of this was that plays were acted entirely by men or by women. Men’s performances of female glamour were sexualized in ways that appeared to confirm cross-sex desire but also contained the potential for flirtation with same-sex eroticism. Some student male actors began to accentuate knowingly queer elements of cross-dressing during the 1920s at a time when homosexuality was becoming more widely discussed in association with gender inversion. The authorities, meanwhile, had become less worried about preventing romantic liaisons between members of the opposite sex than they were about the possibility of same-sex scandals. Drama societies that recruited from across the University began to debate the admission of women members as a way of preventing the student stage from becoming associated with homosexuality and effeminacy. Productions in which men and women only performed as their own sex restored an appearance of heterosexual normality. Cross-dressing had a long afterlife in burlesque reviews in which the audience could be led to understand that it was camp homosexuality that was being parodied.

中文翻译：

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校队变装：剑桥大学的性别、性和变装，1850-1950

摘要

学生社团的记录表明，从 19 世纪下半叶开始，变装在剑桥大学是一种非常流行的做法，不仅在戏剧中，而且在广泛的社会活动中。由于男女同校的道德危险，男女学生在单性别大学中被隔离开来。其结果之一是戏剧完全由男性或女性表演。男性对女性魅力的表现以似乎证实了跨性别欲望的方式被性感化，但也包含与同性色情调情的潜力。在 1920 年代，当同性恋与性别倒置相关的讨论越来越广泛时，一些学生男演员开始刻意强调变装的酷儿元素。与此同时，当局 他们不再担心阻止异性成员之间的浪漫关系，而是担心同性丑闻的可能性。从整个大学招募的戏剧协会开始讨论女性成员的录取，以防止学生阶段与同性恋和女性化联系在一起。男性和女性仅以自己的性别表演的作品恢复了异性恋正常的外观。变装在滑稽评论中有着很长的来世，在这些评论中，观众可以被引导理解被模仿的是营地同性恋。从整个大学招募的戏剧协会开始讨论女性成员的录取，以防止学生阶段与同性恋和女性化联系在一起。男性和女性仅以自己的性别表演的作品恢复了异性恋正常的外观。变装在滑稽评论中有着很长的来世，在这些评论中，观众可以被引导理解被模仿的是营地同性恋。从整个大学招募的戏剧协会开始讨论女性成员的录取，以防止学生阶段与同性恋和女性化联系在一起。男性和女性仅以自己的性别表演的作品恢复了异性恋正常的外观。变装在滑稽评论中有着很长的来世，在这些评论中，观众可以被引导理解被模仿的是营地同性恋。