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Girls will be boys : cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 /

Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with the cinematic cross-dressing they performed onscreen. What few modern viewers realize, however, is that these seemingly daring performances of the 1930s actually came at the tail end of a long wave of gender-bendin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Horak, Laura (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century. Male impersonators in motion pictures. Lesbians in motion pictures. Lesbianism in motion pictures. Sex role in motion pictures.

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