Girls Will Be Boys : : Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 /

Girls Will Be Boys : : Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 / / Laura Horak.

2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award by the Theatre Library Long listed for the 2017 Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
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Horak, Laura,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 40 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Cross-Dressed Women as American Ideals (1908-1921)
  • 1. Moving Picture Uplift and the Female
  • 2. Cowboy Girls, Girl Spies, and the Homoerotic Frontier
  • Intermezzo: Codes of Deviance (1892-1914)
  • 3. Cultural Hierarchy and the Detection of Sexual Deviance in A Florida Enchantment
  • Part II: The Emergence of Lesbian Legibility (1921-1934)
  • 4. Enter the Lesbian: Cosmopolitanism, Trousers, and Lesbians in the 1920s
  • 5. The Lesbian Vogue and Backlash against Cross-Dressed Women in the 1930s
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: U.S. Films Featuring Cross-Dressed Women, 1904-1934
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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