Masking and Unmasking

http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article24108.php
5/26/2008

"Excerpt: Papers could engage questions such as [ ... ] Can gender
divisions or classifications (feminine vs. masculine) be used
to mask identities at the social, political or individual levels? How
can gender studies become an academic way of masking a more
deep problematic on gender conditioning? Can the notion of
"transgender" be considered a method of unmasking or deconstructing
rules and norms pertaining to gender?"