Parting with My Sex

Author(s): Lucy Chesser

LGBTI & Queer Studies

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 Australian historical enquiry, including Aboriginal-European relations and conflict, convict societies, the goldrushes, bushranging, the 1890s and its nationalist fiction, and World War One. The 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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781920898311
  • : Sydney University Press
  • : Sydney University Press
  • : 0.5
  • : October 2008
  • : 2 Centimeters X 14.8 Centimeters X 21 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 378
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Lucy Chesser