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Sapphic crossings : cross-dressing women in eighteenth-century British literature / Ula Lukszo Klein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klein, Ula Lukszo, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Peculiar bodies: stories and histories.
- Peculiar bodies: stories and histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "This book considers the figure of the cross-dressing woman in eighteenth-century culture and her role in representing the possibility of lesbian and transgender embodiments"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Imagining sapphic possibility
- Eighteenth-century female cross-dressers and their beards
- Sapphic breasts and bosom friends
- Penetrating discourse and sapphic dildos
- Putting on gender, one leg at a time
- Coda: Future crossings.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813945507
- 081394550X
- OCLC:
- 1228505085
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