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

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Laura Horak spent a decade scouring film archives worldwide, and what she discovered could revolutionize our understanding of gender roles in the early twentieth century. Girls Will Be Boys examines over 400 examples of women dressed as men in American films made between 1908 and 1934, revealing tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Horak, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kvinnor på film.
Homosexualiet på film, USA.
Lesbiska kvinnor i filmen.
Kvinnor i manskläder i filmen.
Film > historia.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Male impersonators in motion pictures.
Lesbians in motion pictures.
Lesbianism in motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinema.
Lesbianisme au cinema.
Lesbiennes au cinema.
Actrices travesties au cinema.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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