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GIRLS WILL BE BOYS
GIRLS WILL BE BOYS
Subtitle:
Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
Book Category:
Social Science > Women's Studies
Author:
Laura Horak
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
978-0-8135-7482-0
Price:
USD 29.95
Publication Year:
2016

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Rutgers University Press.

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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.A

 
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Choice 2016 Oustanding Academic Title