[...] she gravitates towards venues where she can "show off", a desire neither to desire nor be desired, but a desire for self-effacement that comes only at the moment when everyone is looking. Represented as a desire that is like sex, but not sexual, the performance enables Woolf to transcend the transparency of her own sexlessness in order to refashion herself as "incandescent" [...]
Anne Herrmann: Queering the Moderns. Poses/Portraits/Performances
Anne Herrmann: Queering the Moderns. Poses/Portraits/Performances
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