Parting with my sex : cross-dressing, inversion and sexuality in Australian cultural life / Lucy Chesser
- Bib ID:
- 4469816
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chesser, Lucy Sarah
- Description:
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- University of Sydney, N.S.W. : Sydney University Press, 2008
- xxix, 347 p. : ill., ports, facsims ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781920898311
- Summary:
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"In this original and unusual work, Lucy Chesser explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life. Examples of cross-dressing are to be found in almost every area of classic Australian historical enquiry, including Aboriginal-European relations and conflict, convict societies, the gold rushes, bushranging, the 1890s and its nationalist fiction, and World War One. This book compares and contrasts sustained life-long impersonations where women lived, worked and sometimes married as men, with other forms of cross-dressing such as public masquerades, cross-dressing on the stage, and the prosecution of men who sought sexual encounters while disguised as women"--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2008
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