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Before trans : three gender stories from nineteenth-century France / Rachel Mesch.

Before trans : three gender stories from nineteenth-cen...

Before trans : three gender stories from nineteenth-century France / Rachel Mesch.

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Before trans : three gender stories from nineteenth-century France / Rachel Mesch.

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Full title

Before trans : three gender stories from nineteenth-century France / Rachel Mesch.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Call Numbers

G 2021/0984 , G 2020/5700

Record Identifier

74VKadkWaedl

MMS ID

991024321719202626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Jane Dieulafoy : masculinity for God & country --
Rachilde : "To be strange or nothing at all" --
Marc de Montifaud : "I am me".

Publication information

Publisher

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Place of Publication

California

Date Published

[2020]

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

"This biographical study of three late nineteenth-century French writers looks at how transgender identities were expressed and understood before the modern category of transgender existed. At once construed as oddities and celebrated for their accomplishments, archaeologist and explorer Jane Dieulafoy (1851-1916), art critic Marc de Montifaud (184...

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Full title

Before trans : three gender stories from nineteenth-century France / Rachel Mesch.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-333) and index.

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Contextual Information

Date Copyright

©2020

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2021/0984 , G 2020/5700

Record Identifier

74VKadkWaedl

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadkWaedl

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ISBN

1503606732

9781503606739

DDC

306.768092

MMS ID

991024321719202626

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