Arresting Dress : Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco /

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"In 1863, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized a person's appearing in public in 'a dress not belonging to his or her sex.' Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multipl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sears, Clare, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Transvestiter > juridik och lagstiftning.
Transvestism.
Manners and customs.
Cross-dressing.
Cross-dressers > Legal status, laws, etc.
Travestisme > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Cross-dressers > Legal status, laws, etc. > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
Cross-dressing > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century.
Förenta staterna > San Francisco.
California > San Francisco.
San Francisco (Calif.) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: not belonging
  • Instant and peculiar
  • Against good morals
  • Problem bodies, public space
  • A sight well worth gazing upon
  • Indecent exhibitions
  • Problem bodies, nation-state
  • Conclusion: against the law.

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