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... of gender that undermined legal logic. These protests rarely resulted in courtroom victories, but they reached large audiences through the city press. As such they provided a counternarrative to cross-dressing law and carved out critical space to resist its normalizing effects. nineteenth-century San...

..., popularized, and democratized the normative gender boundaries that cross-dressing law produced. freak shows slumming tours vaudeville nineteenth-century San Francisco cross-dressing ...

... that criminalized public cross-dressing, marking a new approach to managing gender in the rapidly developing city. gold rush California nineteenth-century San Francisco cross-dressing ...

... exclusion from the nation. Together with cross-dressing laws, immigration laws positioned gender-normativity as a precondition for full belonging. immigration control political cartoons Chinese immigration nineteenth-century San Francisco cross-dressing ...

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.... 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 ...

... This chapter examines the emergence of San Francisco’s cross-dressing law at the crossroads of three forces: defining cross-dressing and prostitution as indecency, framing indecency as a societal problem in need of intervention, and identifying local law as the solution. The classification...