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OverviewIn late nineteenth-century England, ""mannish"" women were considered socially deviant but not homosexual. A half-century later, such masculinity equaled lesbianism in the public imagination. How did this shift occur? Citizen, Invert, Queer illustrates that the equation of female masculinity with female homosexuality is a relatively recent phenomenon, a result of changes in national and racial as well as sexual discourses in early twentieth-century public culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah CohlerPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9780816649754ISBN 10: 0816649758 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 22 March 2010 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Queer Nationalisms, 1. Imperialist Classifications: Sexology, Decadence, and New Women in the 1890s, 2. Public Women, Social Inversion: The Women’s Suffrage Debates, 3. “A More Splendid Citizenship”: Prewar Feminism, Eugenics, and Sex Radicals, 4. Around 1918: Gender Deviance, Wartime Nationalism, and Sexual Inversion on the Home Front, 5. Boy-Girls and Girl-Boys: Postwar Lesbian Literary Representations, Afterword: Drag King Dreams Deferred, Acknowledgments, Notes, Works Cited, IndexReviewsAuthor InformationDeborah Cohler is associate professor of women and gender studies at San Francisco State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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