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Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

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Duke University Press

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https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822376194

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2015

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This chapter previews the book’s main arguments, situating them in relation to transgender and queer studies as well as critical cultural studies of law. It also provides a historical overview of cross-dressing laws in the United States, documenting their frequent passage in mid-nineteenth-century cities and their continued enforcement in queer and transgender communities one hundred years later. The introduction describes the theoretical significance of studying cross-dressing laws and introduces problem bodies and trans-ing analysis as two of the book’s conceptual contributions. It describes the book’s archival foundations and introduces several of the historical characters who populate the rest of the work.

cross-dressing law, transgender studies, queer studies, critical cultural legal studies, San Francisco history

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