Her husband was a woman! : women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture
The author explores the popular press to analyse how women's cross-gender bevaviour and same-sex desires were presented to working-class and lower middle-class people. She describes the changing perception of female cross-dressing and its relationship to contemporary ways of writing about gender and (same-sex) desire in the popular press
History
xii, 192 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780415400060, 9780415400077, 0415400066, 0415400074
833289919
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