1st Edition

Women and Cross-Dressing: 1800-1939

Edited By Heike Bauer
1352 Pages
by Routledge

This three-volume collection focuses on writings by and about cross-dressing women from the early nineteenth century up until the beginning of World War II. In so doing, it provides a new perspective on one of the most decisive periods in the history of feminism. The anthology brings together for the first time key texts from the sexological and the literary realms, as well as newspaper... Read more

Acknowledgements, General Introduction, Further reading VOLUME I: THEORIES: SEXOLOGY AND THE TAXONOMIES OF GENDER PART 1 Constructions of Gender 1 The Sex Complex: A Study of the Relationship of the Internal Secretions to the Female Characteristics and Functions in Health and Disease 2 Woman (Wie bist du Weib): A Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, and Sexual Life of Woman with an Appendix on Prostitution 3 The Psychology of Clothes 4 Sex difference in dress 5 Sex in Human Relationships 6 The Riddle of Woman: A Study in the Psychology of Sex PART 2 Case studies 7 Psychopathia Sexualis, with Reference to the Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study 8 Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol. VII: Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies 9 The Psychology of Sex: A Manual for Students 10 Sexual Anomalies and Perversions: Physical and Psychological Development and Treatment 11 The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage 12 Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk: A Study in Social Evolution 13 Sexual Aberrations: The Phenomenon of Fetishism in Relation to Sex 14 Women East and West: Impressions of a Sex Expert 15 Scott’s Encyclopaedia of Sex: A Practical Encyclopaedia Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Explanatory of Everything Pertaining to Sexual Physiology, Psychology and Pathology. VOLUME II: FICTIONS AND LIVES (PART 1) 16 Captain Charlotte. A Farce in Two Acts 1 17 Moll Cutpurse 18 ‘Introduction’, Women Adventurers: The Lives of Madame Velasquez, Hannah Snell, Mary Anne Talbot, and Mrs Christian Davies 19 The Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary Ann Talbot in the Name of John Taylor 20 A Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures and Travels of Madame Loretta Janeta Velasquez otherwise known as Lieutenant Harry T. Bulard 21 Isabella Bird 22 A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains 23 The Mystery of Joan of Arc. VOLUME III: FICTIONS AND LIVES (PART 2) 24 Androgyny, or woman playing at man 25 A book that must be suppressed 26 Radclyffe Hall 27 The Male Impersonator 28 Woman’s strange life as a man 29 How the Colonel’s secret was revealed 30 Amazing mystery of a man-woman: sex changed at the age of 29 31 ‘Girl’ who was a man: error that lasted 24 years 32 Photograph: Two male impersonators 33 Photograph: Two women in suits seated on a horse carriage drinking beer 34 Photograph: Industry, Transport and Agriculture: A woman wearing trousers and overall, bent under the weight of a hundredweight sack of coal she is carrying, at the South Metropolitan Gas Company, Old Kent Road, London 35 Photograph: Industry, Transport and Agriculture: A full length portrait of two munition workers (munitionettes) at Woolwich Arsenal, showing their short overalls, trousers and caps 36 Photograph: Medicine: The two ‘Women of Pervyse’, Mairi Chisholm and the Baroness de T’Serclaes driving their motor ambulance through the ruins of Pervyse 37 Photograph:Women’s Royal Naval Service: WRNS officer instructing ratings in the use of anti-gas respirators at Lowescroft. The officer is wearing a tailored uniform and the rating a serge jacket and skirt 38 Photograph: Women’s Royal Naval Service: A WRNS motor driver in the driving seat of an open car 39 Photograph: Industry, Transport and Agriculture: An Inspector and Sergeant in the Women’s Police Service 40 Photograph: Shipbuilding: Women dockyard workers at the blacksmith’s forge when destroyer HMS ASHANTI was undergoing a refit at Immingham 41 Dr James Barry: Her Secret Story.

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Edited by Heike Bauer