Her husband was a woman!
Subtitle: women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture
By: Alison Oram.
Series: Women's and gender history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415400060; 9780415400077
Subjects: Transvestism -- Great Britain -- History; Male impersonators -- Great Britain -- History; Female-to-male transsexuals -- Great Britain -- History; Lesbianism -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1900-late 1920s : the traditions of gender-crossing; title: Work and war : masculinity, gender relations and the passing woman; title: Sexuality, love and marriage : the gender-crossing woman as female husband; title: The 1930s : entertaining modernity; title: Gender-crossing and modern sexualities, 1928-39; title: 'The sheik was a she!' : the gigolo and cosmopolitanism in the 1930s; title: The 1930s 'sex change' story : medical technology and physical transformation; title: Gender and sexual identities since the 1940s; title: 'Perverted passions' : sexual knowledge and popular culture, 1940-60.