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"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.

Title Sapphic crossings : cross-dressing women in eighteenth-century British literature / Ula Lukszo Klein.
Publisher Charlottesville
London : University of Virginia Press
Creation Date [2021]
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content 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.
Series Peculiar bodies: stories and histories
Extent 1 online resource
Language English
Copyright Date ©2021
National Library system number 997011505543205171
MARC RECORDS
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