Parting with my sex
Subtitle: cross-dressing, inversion and sexuality in Australian cultural life
By: Lucy Chesser.
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: University of Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781920898311
Subjects: Transvestism -- Australia -- History; Transvestites -- Australia; Sex -- Australia; Homosexuality -- Australia
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.