Girls Will be Boys

Informationen zum Autor Horak, Laura Klappentext Laura Horak spent a decade scouring film archives worldwide, and what she discovered could revolutionize our understanding of gender roles in the early twentieth century. Girls Will Be Boys examines over 400 examples of women dressed as men in American films made between 1908 and 1934, revealing that Cross-Dressed women were once viewed as wholesome and used to lend respectability to the fledgling film industry. Zusammenfassung Examines a rich history of gender-bending film roles! enabling readers to appreciate the wide array of masculinities that these actresses performed - from sentimental boyhood to rugged virility to gentlemanly refinement. Taking us on a guided tour through a treasure-trove of vintage images! Girls Will Be Boys helps us view the histories of gender! sexuality! and film through fresh eyes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Cross-Dressed Women as American Ideals (19081921) 1 Moving Picture Uplift and the Female Boy 2 Cowboy Girls, Girl Spies, and the Homoerotic Frontier Intermezzo Codes of Deviance (18921914) 3 Cultural Hierarchy and the Detection of Sexual Deviance in A Florida Enchantment (1894 and 1914) Part II The Emergence of Lesbian Legibility (19211934) 4 Enter the Lesbian: Cosmopolitanism, Trousers, and Lesbians in the 1920s 5 The Lesbian Vogue and Backlash against Cross-Dressed Women in the 1930s Conclusion Appendix: U.S. Films Featuring Cross-Dressed Women, 18951934 Notes Bibliography Index

Autorentext
Horak, Laura

Klappentext
Laura Horak spent a decade scouring film archives worldwide, and what she discovered could revolutionize our understanding of gender roles in the early twentieth century. Girls Will Be Boys examines over 400 examples of women dressed as men in American films made between 1908 and 1934, revealing that Cross-Dressed women were once viewed as wholesome and used to lend respectability to the fledgling film industry.

Zusammenfassung
Examines a rich history of gender-bending film roles, enabling readers to appreciate the wide array of masculinities that these actresses performed - from sentimental boyhood to rugged virility to gentlemanly refinement. Taking us on a guided tour through a treasure-trove of vintage images, Girls Will Be Boys helps us view the histories of gender, sexuality, and film through fresh eyes.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Cross-Dressed Women as American Ideals (1908–1921)

1 Moving Picture Uplift and the Female Boy

2 Cowboy Girls, Girl Spies, and the Homoerotic Frontier

Intermezzo Codes of Deviance (1892–1914)

3 Cultural Hierarchy and the Detection of Sexual Deviance in A Florida Enchantment (1894 and 1914)

Part II The Emergence of Lesbian Legibility (1921–1934)

4 Enter the Lesbian: Cosmopolitanism, Trousers, and Lesbians in the 1920s

5 The Lesbian Vogue and Backlash against Cross-Dressed Women in the 1930s

Conclusion

Appendix: U.S. Films Featuring Cross-Dressed Women, 1895–1934

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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