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Girls will be boys [electronic resource] :cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 / Laura Horak.

By: Horak, Laura.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813574851; 0813574854.Subject(s): Sex role in motion pictures | Lesbianism in motion pictures | Lesbians in motion pictures | Male impersonators in motion pictures | Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 791.43/653 Online resources: Full text available:
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 enchantment (1894 and 1914) -- Part 2. The emergence of lesbian legibility (1921-1934) -- Enter the lesbian: cosmopolitanism, trousers, and lesbians in the 1920s -- The lesbian vogue and backlash against cross-dressed women in the 1930s -- Conclusion -- Appendix: U.S. films featuring cross-dressed women, 1895-1934.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 enchantment (1894 and 1914) -- Part 2. The emergence of lesbian legibility (1921-1934) -- Enter the lesbian: cosmopolitanism, trousers, and lesbians in the 1920s -- The lesbian vogue and backlash against cross-dressed women in the 1930s -- Conclusion -- Appendix: U.S. films featuring cross-dressed women, 1895-1934.

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