Her Husband was a Woman!: Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture (Women's and Gender History)

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A survey of reports of gender-crossing in the popular press from the 1900s to the 1950s, contrasting and comparing them with cross-dressing in mass cultural entertainment in the period. This last theme seemed sometimes to be there to "beef up" a slight work, but did have its interest. The change from a jolly celebration of trickster cleverness to a pathologised campaign against lesbianism and "perversion" was interesting, and it was useful to read as an example of an academic text, too (for my own studies).

Very interesting but very repetitive. It read rather like a journal article stretched and padded to make a book.