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Arresting dress : cross-dressing, law, and fascination in nineteenth-century San Francisco
- Author
- Sears, Clare, 1970-
- Title
- Arresting dress : cross-dressing, law, and fascination in nineteenth-century San Francisco / Clare Sears.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Description
- x, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Uniform series
- Perverse modernities.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-159) and index.
- Contents
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- Instant and peculiar
- Against good morals
- Problem bodies, public space
- A sight well worth gazing upon
- Indecent exhibitions
- Problem bodies, nation-state.
- Subject headings
- Cross-dressing--California--San Francisco--History--19th century. Cross-dressers--Legal status, laws, etc.--California--San Francisco--History--19th century. San Francisco (Calif.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Genre heading
- History.