Title - Parting with My Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life
 | Parting with My Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life
Chesser, Lucy
In this original and unusual work, Lucy Chesser explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life. Examples of cross-dressing are to be found in almost every area of Australian historical enquiry, including Aboriginal-European relations and conflict, convict societies, the goldrushes, bushranging, the 1890s and its nationalist fiction, and World War One. The book compares and contrasts sustained life-long impersonations where women lived, worked and sometimes married as men, with other forms of cross-dressing such as public masquerades, cross-dressing on the stage, and the prosecution of men who sought sexual encounters while disguised as women. (Sydney Uni. Press)
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ISBN: 9781920898311
Type: Pbk.
Number of pages: 344pp
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Date Of Publication: 200810
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