Parting with My Sex
Author(s): Lucy Chesser
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
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- : Sydney University Press
- : Sydney University Press
- : 0.5
- : 01 October 2008
- : 2 Centimeters X 14.8 Centimeters X 21 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : 378
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Lucy Chesser