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Author Horak, Laura, author.

Title Girls will be boys : cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 / Laura Horak.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part 1. 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 (1894 and 1914) -- Part 2. 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 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: U.S. films featuring cross-dressed women, 1895-1934.
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Subject Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Male impersonators in motion pictures.
Male impersonators in motion pictures.
Lesbians in motion pictures.
Lesbians in motion pictures.
Lesbianism in motion pictures.
Lesbianism in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Horak, Laura. Girls will be boys 9780813574837 (DLC) 2015012447 (OCoLC)906798392
ISBN 9780813574851 electronic book
0813574854 electronic book
9780813574837
0813574838
9780813574820
081357482X
9780813574844 (e-book (epub)

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