CROSS-DRESSING AND GENDER CONSTRUCTION IN MICHÈLE ROBERTS’S FLESH AND BLOOD
CROSS-DRESSING AND GENDER CONSTRUCTION IN MICHÈLE ROBERTS’S FLESH AND BLOOD

Summary/Abstract: In Flesh and Blood, Michèle Roberts deals with some of her favourite topics: food, sex, religion, mother-daughter relationships, and feminist ideas. In the series of intertwined stories that compose the novel, the women protagonists suffer and feel displaced, disempowered, marginalised, or misunderstood for different causes. In order to overcome these difficult situations, some of these women decide to cross-dress. Based on feminist theories that claim that gender is socially and culturally constructed, this article will explore the way these women cross-dress, why they do it and the outcomes they get from it.

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