Parting with my Sex : Cross-Dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life - Lucy Chesser

Parting with my Sex

Cross-Dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life

By: Lucy Chesser

Paperback | 23 September 2008

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In this original and unusual work, Lucy Chesser explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life. Examples of cross-dressing are to be found in almost every area of Australian historical enquiry, including Aboriginal-European relations and conflict, convict societies, the goldrushes, bushranging, the 1890s and its nationalist fiction, and World War One. The book compares and contrasts sustained life-long impersonations whereby women lived, worked and sometimes married as men, with other forms of cross-dressing such as public masquerades, cross-dressing on the stage, and the prosecution of men who sought sexual encounters while disguised as women.

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'I was often struck by her respect for the basic integrity of the stories that she tells - yet always confident that I was in the presence of a historian in control of her material and with the wit and imagination not to miss opportunities for interpretation. There is a lightness of touch about the prose combined with a subtlety in the historical explanation that made every page a pleasure.' -- Frank Bongiorno * Journal of Australian Colonial History *

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