Girls will be boys : cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 / Laura Horak.
Girls will be boys : cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 / Laura Horak.
Girls will be boys : cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 / Laura Horak.
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New Brunswick, New Jersey Rutgers University Press, [2016]
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G 2017/4852
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English
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Physical content
xii, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
still image
text
Media type
unmediated
unmediated
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volume
volume
Contents
Introduction -- Part 1. Cross-dressed women as American ideals (1908-1921) -- Moving picture uplift and the female boy -- Cowboy girls, girl spies, and the homoerotic frontier -- Intermezzo codes of deviance (1892-1914) -- Cultural hierarchy and the detection of sexual deviance in a Florida enchantm...
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Publisher
New Brunswick, New Jersey Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with the cinematic cross-dressing they performed onscreen. What few modern viewers realize, however, is that these seemingly daring performances of the 1930s actually came at the tail end of a long wave of gender-bending films that included more than 400 movies featur...
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Girls will be boys : cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 / Laura Horak.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.
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G 2017/4852
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74VKVENOz04Z
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVENOz04Z
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ISBN
9780813574820 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813574837 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
791.43653
MMS ID
991024132518802626
