Description
Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood.
Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women who successfully passed as men in everyday life, perhaps marrying other women or fighting for their country. Oram revises assumptions about the history of modern gender and sexual identities, especially lesbianism and transsexuality.
This book provides a fascinating resource for researchers and students, grounding the concepts of gender performativity, lesbian and queer identities in a broadly-based survey of the historical evidence.
Author: Alison Oram
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780415400077
ISBN10: 0415400074
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
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