Parting with my sex : cross-dressing, inversion and sexuality in Australian cultural life / Lucy Chesser.
- Chesser, Lucy.
- Date:
- 2008
- Books
About this work
Description
"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.
Publication/Creation
University of Sydney, N.S.W. : Sydney University Press, 2008.
Physical description
xxix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contributors
Notes
Includes bibliographic references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineTPJ.91Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781920898311
- 192089831X