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Author:   Lucy Chesser
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
Imprint:   Sydney University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781920898311

ISBN 10:   192089831
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   23 September 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 1. 'Extraordinary case of concealment of sex': Edward de Lacy Evans and the management of disruptive knowledge 2. 'If he's a woman he's a fine ploughman': public regulation, private tolerance and 'passing women' in colonial Australia 3. Mary Rutledge's mad freak: masquerade, disguise, theatrical impersonation and cross-dressing 4. 'Mere bundles of clothes': cross-dressing and inversion in colonial cultural expression 5. 'She won't be happy till she wears 'em': cross-dressing and sexual politics in the contested 1890s Part 2 6. 'I felt no difference between him and other women': sexual (mis)representation and cultural anxiety in the 1863 prosecution of John Wilson 7. Abominable crimes and strange manias: cross-dressing and homosexual transgression, 1863-1900 8. 'Woman in a suit-of-male': working women in male 'disguise', 1890-1920 9. 'When two loving hearts beat as one': same-sex marriage, subjectivity and self-representation in the case of Marion-Bill-Edwards, 1906-1916 10. Brazen beauties and erotic males: cross-dressing, sensationalism, sexology and the law, 1902-1920 Conclusion Index

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'I was often struck by her respect for the basic integrity of the stories that she tells — yet always confident that I was in the presence of a historian in control of her material and with the wit and imagination not to miss opportunities for interpretation. There is a lightness of touch about the prose combined with a subtlety in the historical explanation that made every page a pleasure.' -- Frank Bongiorno * Journal of Australian Colonial History *

'I was often struck by her respect for the basic integrity of the stories that she tells - yet always confident that I was in the presence of a historian in control of her material and with the wit and imagination not to miss opportunities for interpretation. There is a lightness of touch about the prose combined with a subtlety in the historical explanation that made every page a pleasure.' -- Frank Bongiorno * Journal of Australian Colonial History *

Author Information

Lucy Chesser wrote her PhD on cross-dressing in Australian history at La Trobe University, where she then became an honorary research associate in history.

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