The changing room: sex, drag, and theatre

Part I: Acting out

The sham in shaman

The Greek for it is 'gynaikíseos'

Skirting Christ

Part II: Stages of Sodom

Orientations

China trade

Playboys and boy players

Part III: The mannish and the unmanned

Arms and the woman

Monstrous pleasures of the baroque

Breeches birth

Beldames sans merci

The prince, the pauper and the pan

Part IV: Subcultures surface

Putting on the drag

The imp(ersonator) of the perverse

Amateur hour

Part V: Children of the ghetto

Queens of clubs

Alternatives

Sex, drags and rock 'n' roll

Glad-ragging the Establishment

A gender of their own

Afterword : from dressing up to dressing down.