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

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.