Clothes Make the (Wo)man

SUMMARY

Dietrich, like Madonna, has been called gender-bendingand androgynous, but Dietrich's on- and offscreen fluidity of gender identity, as reflected in her adoption of the “double drag,” upsets the traditional dichotomy encoded more generally as that of male or female and more particularly as that of the butch or femme.

Key Words:

• Dietrich
• drag
• gender roles
• performance
• subversion