TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horak,Laura
TI  - Girls will be boys: cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 
SN  - 9780813574837 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - PN1995.9.I43 H67 2016
U1  - 791.43/653 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Male impersonators in motion pictures
KW  - Lesbians in motion pictures
KW  - Lesbianism in motion pictures
KW  - Sex role in motion pictures
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Part 1. Cross-dressed women as American ideals (1908-1921) -- Moving picture uplift and the female boy -- Cowboy girls, girl spies, and the homoerotic frontier -- Intermezzo codes of deviance (1892-1914) -- Cultural hierarchy and the detection of sexual deviance in a Florida enchantment (1894 and 1914) -- Part 2. The emergence of lesbian legibility (1921-1934) -- Enter the lesbian: cosmopolitanism, trousers, and lesbians in the 1920s -- The lesbian vogue and backlash against cross-dressed women in the 1930s -- Conclusion -- Appendix: U.S. films featuring cross-dressed women, 1895-1934
ER  -