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OverviewIn 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 whereby 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lucy ChesserPublisher: Sydney University Press Imprint: Sydney University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9781920898311ISBN 10: 192089831 Pages: 340 Publication Date: 23 September 2008 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback 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 ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part 1 1. 'Extraordinary case of concealment of sex': Edward de Lacy Evans and the management of disruptive knowledge 2. 'If he's a woman he's a fine ploughman': public regulation, private tolerance and 'passing women' in colonial Australia 3. Mary Rutledge's mad freak: masquerade, disguise, theatrical impersonation and cross-dressing 4. 'Mere bundles of clothes': cross-dressing and inversion in colonial cultural expression 5. 'She won't be happy till she wears 'em': cross-dressing and sexual politics in the contested 1890s Part 2 6. 'I felt no difference between him and other women': sexual (mis)representation and cultural anxiety in the 1863 prosecution of John Wilson 7. Abominable crimes and strange manias: cross-dressing and homosexual transgression, 1863-1900 8. 'Woman in a suit-of-male': working women in male 'disguise', 1890-1920 9. 'When two loving hearts beat as one': same-sex marriage, subjectivity and self-representation in the case of Marion-Bill-Edwards, 1906-1916 10. Brazen beauties and erotic males: cross-dressing, sensationalism, sexology and the law, 1902-1920 Conclusion IndexReviews'I was often struck by her respect for the basic integrity of the stories that she tells — yet always confident that I was in the presence of a historian in control of her material and with the wit and imagination not to miss opportunities for interpretation. There is a lightness of touch about the prose combined with a subtlety in the historical explanation that made every page a pleasure.' -- Frank Bongiorno * Journal of Australian Colonial History * 'I was often struck by her respect for the basic integrity of the stories that she tells - yet always confident that I was in the presence of a historian in control of her material and with the wit and imagination not to miss opportunities for interpretation. There is a lightness of touch about the prose combined with a subtlety in the historical explanation that made every page a pleasure.' -- Frank Bongiorno * Journal of Australian Colonial History * Author InformationLucy Chesser wrote her PhD on cross-dressing in Australian history at La Trobe University, where she then became an honorary research associate in history. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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