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When I did a quick wiki search of W. Somerset Maugham, I found this info that adds another way to think about W. Sommerset. "Maugham's mother Edith Mary (née Snell) was consumptive, a condition for which the English doctors of the time prescribed childbirth." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham
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My friend also writes in response to my chapter: "Anyway, I was intrigued by the strategies for opposing socially-imposed identities. I think I may have been more successful than you in one respect, though. I've actually "passed" as "female" on a few occasions. I don't think you could do so as "unattractive," at least in person as opposed to a cyber-persona.
From the chapter: "Masquerading typically derives from desire for a power not possessed. Gender forms the “co-ordinates” that guide social interaction." My friend comments that "this has an ironic meaning when seen in the light of transvestism. Male-to-female transvestism often causes acute social discomfort, while female-to-male transvestism has become so commonplace as to no longer even has much meaning as a term. I think this has to do with the perceived inequality of power between the genders. A similar discomfort attaches to "blackface" performance, which is literally "denigrating" the performer. Non-whites "acting white" however, or in keeping with Euro-American norms, is commonplace and accepted."
From my chapter: "I have learned about myself by not being me." My friend comments that "This is a good way of stating the lesson learned by Dustin Hoffman's character in "Tootsie," when he comes to understand his own male-chauvinist persona by experiencing the world in a female modality."
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