The trouble with Tim: historicising the male body in female celebrity

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Notes

1. Pejic is a transgender model whose rise in high fashion as an androgynous male model predated her transition in early 2014. Belli is a popular American drag queen who rose to fame as a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race (2012) and walked the runway for Betsey Johnson in the Spring 2014 New York Fashion Week.

2. For a more thorough description of mimesis, see Williams (2008).

3. For foundational discussions of gender as performative and imitative, see Butler (1990).

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Mara Dauphin

Mara Dauphin is a PhD student in the American Studies department at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Her research centres on the history of twentieth-century American gender and sexuality, with particular attention both to practices of gender performance and to the history of gender ‘imitation’.