Her Husband was a Woman!: Women's Gender-crossing and Twentieth Century British Popular Culture
Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood.\ Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women who successfully passed as men in everyday life, perhaps marrying other women or fighting for their country. Oram revises assumptions about the history of modern gender and sexual identities,...
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Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood. Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women who successfully passed as men in everyday life, perhaps marrying other women or fighting for their country. Oram revises assumptions about the history of modern gender and sexual identities, especially lesbianism and transsexuality.This book provides a fascinating resource for researchers and students, grounding the concepts of gender performativity, lesbian and queer identities in a broadly-based survey of the historical evidence.
List of illustrations xiAcknowledgements xiIntroduction: sex, scandal and the popular press 1Part I 1900-late 1920s: the traditions of gender-crossing 151 Work and war: masculinity, gender relations and the passing woman 172 Sexuality, love and marriage: the gender-crossing woman as female husband 40Part II The 1930s: entertaining modernity 613 Gender-crossing and modern sexualities, 1928-39 634 'The sheik was a she!': the gigolo and cosmopolitanism in the 1930s 895 The 1930s 'sex change' story: medical technology and physical transformation 109Part III Gender and sexual identities since the 1940s 1296 'Perverted passions': sexual knowledge and popular culture, 1940-60 131Notes 158Select bibliography 184Index 188
