Parting with my Sex

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Cross-Dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life

By Lucy Chesser

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Parting with my Sex by Lucy Chesser examines the frequent instances of cross-dressing and gender inversion throughout Australian history. It spans diverse contexts from Aboriginal-European relations to convict societies, the goldrush era, bushranging, 1890s nationalist fiction, and World War One. The book contrasts lifelong male impersonations by women with public masquerades, theatrical cross-dressing, and legal persecutions of disguised men seeking sexual encounters.
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Parting with my Sex

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This book is ideal for readers interested in Australian history, gender studies, cultural anthropology, and social history enthusiasts seeking a nuanced exploration of gender and identity in Australia’s past.

Explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life. Examples of cross-dressing are found in almost every area of Australian historical enquiry and this book compares and contrasts life-long impersonations and other forms of cross-dressing.

This original and unusual work explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life.

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In 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.

Parting with my Sex 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.

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Frank Bongiorno of the Journal of Australian Colonial History praises Chesser's work for its respectful handling of complex stories, deft historical insight, and engaging prose that combines wit with subtle explanations. He found each page a pleasure to read.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781920898311

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 September 2008

Country: Australia

Imprint: Sydney University Press

Illustration: 53 b&w ill.

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 340

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About the Author

Lucy Chesser wrote her PhD on cross-dressing in Australian history at La Trobe University, where she then became an honorary research associate in history.