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During the four days of street parades in Martinique's Carnival, a large number of male spectators and parade participants dress and act as women. The vast majority of these men are self-described heterosexuals, and their behaviour is all the more perplexing given the homophobic and generally rigid definition of masculinity in Martinique. This paper explores various interpretations of the meaning of cross-dressing. I argue that the meaning of Carnival cross-dressing is dependent on a nexus of particular historical, cultural and gendered forces which do not align to form a singular socio-cultural paradigm but rather exist in a shifting relationship dependent upon speaker and context.

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