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Citizen, invert, queer : lesbianism and war in early twentieth-century Britain /

"In late nineteenth-century England, 'mannish' women were considered socially deviant but not homosexual. A half-century later, such masculinity equaled lesbianism in the public imagination. How did this shift occur? Citizen, Invert, Queer illustrates that the equation of female mascu...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cohler, Deborah (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Imperialist classifications: sexology, decadence, and new women in the 1890s
  • Public women, social inversion: the women's suffrage debates
  • "A more splendid citizenship": prewar feminism, eugenics, and sex radicals
  • Around 1918: gender deviance, wartime nationalism, and sexual inversion on the home front
  • Boy-girls and girl-boys: postwar lesbian literary representations.