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Author:

Klein, Ula Lukszo, 1982- author.

Title:

Sapphic crossings : cross-dressing women in eighteenth-century British literature / Ula Lukszo Klein.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xiv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

1700-1799
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Cross-dressers in literature.
Male impersonators in literature.
Desire in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Male impersonators in literature.
Cross-dressers in literature.
Desire in literature.
English literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Imagining sapphic possibility -- Eighteenth-century female cross-dressers and their beards -- Sapphic breasts and bosom friends -- Penetrating discourse and sapphic dildos -- Putting on gender, one leg at a time -- Coda: Future crossings.

Summary:

"This book considers the figure of the cross-dressing woman in eighteenth-century culture and her role in representing the possibility of lesbian and transgender embodiments"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Peculiar bodies : stories and histories

ISBN:

081394550X
9780813945507
0813945518
9780813945514

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1198988733

LCCN:

2020035739

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)