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Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Author
Clare Sears
Content
x + 202 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Description
Uses an 1863 San Francisco law prohibiting cross-dressing to examine gender expression, gender identity, and gender roles in the 19th century.
Main subject
Law
Sociology and Social Issues
ISBN
9780822357544 (cloth); 9780822357582 (pap.); 9780822376194 (ebook)
Citation
Sears, Clare.
Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Sylvia. Accessed June 14, 2024. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2148.
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09-07-2022
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GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
22.1 (2016): 137–39
Women's Review of Books
(May–June 2015): 8–9
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