...Katie Hindmarch-Watson Duke University Press 2007 Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London Katie Hindmarch-Watson On November 13, 1886, twenty-one-year-old Lois Schwich was sentenced to eight months’ hard labor...

...Diego Galdo-González The Ball of La Laguna was an infamous cross‐dressing ball that ended in a police raid, media scandal, and public uproar on the night of January 31, 1959, in Lima, Peru. Hundreds of maricón (queer) couples attended the ball sporting masculine and feminine attire — unaware...

... that they are not strapped with explosives, Waked gives this practice a new, and explicitly homoerotic, interpretation, presenting it as a means for Israeli soldiers to “check out” Palestinian men, who “dress up for the occasion.” In Waked's film, Hochberg concludes, the Israeli soldiers' treatment of the Palestinian body...

... in the late fourteenth century. Eventually making its way to the web, the document is now available globally and has been the subject of numerous scholarly treatments as well as popular adaptations in various media. The sex worker, John Rykener, who went by the name Eleanor and dressed in women’s clothing...

...Peter Boag Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco . Sears Clare . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . x + 202 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Books in Brief PRODUCING CROSS-­DRESSERS . . . AND MORE...

.... In this context, a wide range of cross-gender practices emerged, most often visibly manifesting in cross-dressing. These cross-dressing practices, however, were joined by another cross- gender phenomenon that became a central fixture of the nineteenth-century politi- cal landscape — the political...

...-dressing in women’s clothing. I knew about his transvestism because my mother revealed it to me when I was about eight years old, just before we left southern California. It was on the occasion of my father’s losing his job with an electronics firm that contracted with the U.S. Navy. My dad, who had...

... to present herself to her parents for inspection: to her beautiful mother, in her late twenties at the turn of the century and always perfectly arrayed, with fl owers in her hat, feather boa around her neck; and to her father, not handsome but impeccably dressed, with his taste for fi ne suits...

... York and London: Routledge, 1989 . Garber , Marjorie . Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety . New York: Routledge, 1992 . Gaunt , Simon . “Marginal Men, Marcabru and Orthodoxy.” Medium Aevum 59 ( 1990 ): 55 -72. Gaunt , Simon . “The Significance of Silence...

...Don Romesburg Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past . Boag Peter . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . xii + 257 pp . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Books in Brief Deconstructing Queer Settler Colonialism Brian Joseph Gilley Spaces between Us...

... GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Trans Tales of the Frontier West Don Romesburg Re-­Dressing America’s Frontier Past Peter Boag Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xii + 257 pp. Peter Boag, Columbia Chair in the History...

... professor of English and Latina/Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-­Champaign. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2370315 204 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Trans Tales of the Frontier West Don Romesburg Re-­Dressing America’s Frontier Past...

... professor of English and Latina/Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-­Champaign. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2370315 204 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Trans Tales of the Frontier West Don Romesburg Re-­Dressing America’s Frontier Past...

... of this process, which is at best precarious, and never complete.”5 In narrative, the demand that the tomboy exchange her overalls for a dress to signal her availability for heterosexual romance is a clear attempt to “order” her “precarious” gender development into an acceptable heterosexual...

...: I got the name when I did Caca Roaches Have No Friends in fall of 1969, but I actually started doing Cyclona when I was in junior high. I used to go down Whittier Boulevard dressed as a psychedelic creature, very female at that time. It was cross-dressing, kind of like drag. I wore psychedelic...

... : University of Pennsylvania Press . Plant Rebecca Jo . 2010 . Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Sears Clare . 2015 . Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco . Durham, NC...

... trademark simple black dress and a string of pearls, she and her controversial queer life swept into unexpected and triumphant visibility to theater audiences in the United States. North American playwright Doug Wright’s dramatization of her life in his one-person Broadway show I Am My Own Wife...

... practice of swardspeak and, to a lesser extent, cross-dressing. Swardspeak is a vernacular language used by Filipino gay men in Manila and overseas that reconfigures elements from Filipino, English, and Spanish and that is spoken with a hyperfeminized inflection. Manalansan argues that deploying...

... abhorrence of what they viewed as homosexual relationships. In his soldier’s memoir, written in 1775, Fages reports: I have substantial evidence that those Indian men who, both here and farther inland, are observed in the dress, clothing, and character...

... not criminalized male homosexuality or cross-dressing. A statute penalizing crimes “against human nature” [ phit thammada manut] was intro- duced in the early twentieth century so that Siam would be seen as “modern” in the eyes of the European powers. But this law appears not to have been used...