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Arresting Dress
Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Taschenbuch von Clare Sears
Sprache: Englisch

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In 1863, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized 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 multiple gender transgressions, facilitating over one hundred arrests before the century's end. Over forty U.S. cities passed similar laws during this time, yet little is known about their emergence, operations, or effects. Grounded in a wealth of archival material, Arresting Dress traces the career of anti-cross-dressing laws from municipal courtrooms and codebooks to newspaper scandals, vaudevillian theater, freak-show performances, and commercial "slumming tours." It shows that the law did not simply police normative gender but actively produced it by creating new definitions of gender normality and abnormality. It also tells the story of the tenacity of those who defied the law, spoke out when sentenced, and articulated different gender possibilities.
In 1863, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized 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 multiple gender transgressions, facilitating over one hundred arrests before the century's end. Over forty U.S. cities passed similar laws during this time, yet little is known about their emergence, operations, or effects. Grounded in a wealth of archival material, Arresting Dress traces the career of anti-cross-dressing laws from municipal courtrooms and codebooks to newspaper scandals, vaudevillian theater, freak-show performances, and commercial "slumming tours." It shows that the law did not simply police normative gender but actively produced it by creating new definitions of gender normality and abnormality. It also tells the story of the tenacity of those who defied the law, spoke out when sentenced, and articulated different gender possibilities.
Über den Autor
Clare Sears
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii

Introduction. Not Belonging 1

1. Instant and Peculiar 23

2. Against Good Morals 41

3. Problem Bodies, Public Space 61

4. A Sight Well Worth Gazing Upon 78

5. Indecent Exhibitions 97

6. Problem Bodies, Nation-State 121

Conclusion. Against the Law 139

Notes 149

Bibliography 175

Index 191
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822357582
ISBN-10: 0822357585
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sears, Clare
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Clare Sears
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.12.2014
Gewicht: 0,318 kg
Artikel-ID: 121056289
Über den Autor
Clare Sears
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii

Introduction. Not Belonging 1

1. Instant and Peculiar 23

2. Against Good Morals 41

3. Problem Bodies, Public Space 61

4. A Sight Well Worth Gazing Upon 78

5. Indecent Exhibitions 97

6. Problem Bodies, Nation-State 121

Conclusion. Against the Law 139

Notes 149

Bibliography 175

Index 191
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822357582
ISBN-10: 0822357585
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sears, Clare
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Clare Sears
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.12.2014
Gewicht: 0,318 kg
Artikel-ID: 121056289
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