Her husband was a woman! : women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture /
Oram, Alison.
Her husband was a woman! : women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture / Alison Oram. - London : Routledge, 2007. - xii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Women's and gender history .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-187) and index.
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.
9780415400077
Female-to-male transsexuals--History--Great Britain
Lesbianism--History--Great Britain
Male impersonators--History--Great Britain
Transvestism--History.--Great Britain
Her husband was a woman! : women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture / Alison Oram. - London : Routledge, 2007. - xii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Women's and gender history .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-187) and index.
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.
9780415400077
Female-to-male transsexuals--History--Great Britain
Lesbianism--History--Great Britain
Male impersonators--History--Great Britain
Transvestism--History.--Great Britain