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Her husband was a woman! : women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oram, Alison
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Series:Women's and gender history.
Subjects:
Cross-dressing > Great Britain > History.
Male impersonators > Great Britain > History.
Female-to-male transsexuals > Great Britain > History.
Lesbianism > Great Britain > History.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • 1900-late 1920s : the traditions of gender-crossing
  • Work and war : masculinity, gender relations and the passing woman
  • Sexuality, love and marriage : the gender-crossing woman as female husband
  • The 1930s : entertaining modernity
  • Gender-crossing and modern sexualities, 1928-39
  • 'The sheik was a she!' : the gigolo and cosmopolitanism in the 1930s
  • The 1930s 'sex change' story : medical technology and physical transformation
  • Gender and sexual identities since the 1940s
  • 'Perverted passions' : sexual knowledge and popular culture, 1940-60.