Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Oram, Alison.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

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Details

Description

xii, 192 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text explores real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women who successfully passed as men in everyday life.

Series Statement

Women's and gender history

Uniform Title

Women's and gender history

Subject

• Geschichte 1900-1960
• Cross-dressing > Great Britain > History
• Male impersonators > Great Britain > History
• Female-to-male transsexuals > Great Britain > History
• Lesbianism > Great Britain > History
• Female-to-male transsexuals
• Lesbianism
• Male impersonators
• Cross-dressing
• Geschlechterrolle
• Transsexualität
• Volkskultur
• Transvestism > historia > Storbritannien
• Kvinnor i manskläder > historia > Storbritannien
• Transsexuella > historia > Storbritannien
• Lesbianism > historia > Storbritannien
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-187) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780415400060
• 0415400066
• 9780415400077
• 0415400074

LCCN

• 2007022516
• 9780415400077

OCLC

• ocn138341556
• 138341556
• SCSB-14692193

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library