An edition of Her Husband was a Woman!
(2007)
Her husband was a woman!
women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture
by Alison Oram
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Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text explores real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women who successfully passed as men in everyday life.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-187) and index.
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