Arresting dress: cross-dressing, law, and fascination in nineteenth-century San Francisco
By Clare Sears. Duke University Press, 2015. 202 pp.
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An in depth examination of cross-dressing laws in San Francisco in the 19th Century. 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. Includes archival material, pictures, and detailed stories.
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978-0-8223-5754-4
