{"title":"Lucy Chesser","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLucy Chesser\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into personal and societal themes through her thought-provoking works. Her writing invites readers to engage deeply with topics surrounding identity, sexuality, and human experience, presented with clarity and compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSituated within \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, her books serve as valuable resources for understanding complex subjects, blending accessible prose with critical reflection. Readers seeking meaningful discourse will find her approach both enlightening and empathetic.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"parting-with-my-sex-by-lucy-chesser-9781920898311","title":"Parting with my Sex","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this original and unusual work, Lucy Chesser explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life. Examples of cross-dressing are to be found in almost every area of Australian historical enquiry, including Aboriginal-European relations and conflict, convict societies, the goldrushes, bushranging, the 1890s and its nationalist fiction, and World War One.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eParting with my Sex\u003c\/em\u003e compares and contrasts sustained life-long impersonations whereby women lived, worked and sometimes married as men, with other forms of cross-dressing such as public masquerades, cross-dressing on the stage, and the prosecution of men who sought sexual encounters while disguised as women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471331082476,"sku":"9781920898311","price":78.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781920898311-parting-with-my-sex.jpg?v=1775239849"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lucy-chesser.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}