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Girls will be boys : cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 (engelsk)
Af Laura Horak (2016)
Questioning the assumption that cross-dressing women were automatically viewed as transgressive, the author finds that these figures were popularly regarded as wholesome and regularly appeared onscreen in the 1910s, thus lending greater respectability to the fledgling film industry. Horak also explores how and why this perception of cross-dressed women began to change in the 1920s and early 1930s, examining how cinema played a pivotal part in the representation of lesbian identity
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Detaljer om materialet
Type
Bog
Format
illustreret
Sprog
engelsk
Emneord
Klassemærke
30.1776
Beskrivelse
Indhold: 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) 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)
ISBN
9780813574837
Omfang
xii, 311 sider
Forlag
Rutgers University Press
Målgruppe
alment niveauvoksenmaterialer