Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears

Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Clare Sears

232 pages first pub 2014 (view editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for ...

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