- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Girls will be boys (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Girls will be boys (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part 1. Cross-dressed women as American ideals (1908-1921) -- Moving picture uplift and the female boy -- Cowboy girls, girl spies, and the homoerotic frontier -- Intermezzo codes of deviance (1892-1914) -- Cultural hierarchy and the detection of sexual deviance in a Florida enchantment (1894 and 1914) -- Part 2. The emergence of lesbian legibility (1921-1934) -- Enter the lesbian: cosmopolitanism, trousers, and lesbians in the 1920s -- The lesbian vogue and backlash against cross-dressed women in the 1930s -- Conclusion -- Appendix: U.S. films featuring cross-dressed women, 1904-1934.
- LCCN
- 2015012447
- OCLC
- ssj0001593189
- Author
Horak, Laura.
- Title
Girls will be boys [electronic resource] : cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 / Laura Horak.
- Imprint
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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