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Her Husband was a Woman!

This terrific book will force a re-thinking of certain widespread assumptions concerning the history of relations between women. It deserves and needs a wide readership.

Lucy Bland, London Metropolitan University

Alison Oram has changed the history of when British people became aware of lesbians. In her entertaining book, she demonstrates that the early twentieth-century popular press described women who passed as men as amazing, strange and marvelous rather than perverted or deviant. This is an important theoretical and historical contribution, but it is also fun to read.

Anna Clark, University of Minnesota

Astonishing reports of women masquerading as men frequently appear in the mass media from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1960s.

Alison Orams pioneering study of womens gender-crossing explores the popular press to analyse how womens cross-gender behaviour and same-sex desires were presented to ordinary working-class and lower middle-class people. It breaks new ground in focusing on the representation of female sexualities within the broad sweep of popular culture rather than in fiction and professional literature.

Her Husband was a Woman! surveys these engaging stories of cross-dressing in mass-circulation newspapers and places them in the wider context of variety theatre, fairgrounds and other popular entertainment. Oram catalogues the changing perception of female cross-dressing and its relationship to contemporary ways of writing about gender and desire in the popular press. In the early twentieth century cross-dressing women were not condemned by the press for being socially transgressive, but celebrated for their trickster joking and success in performing masculinity. While there may have been earlier knowingness', it was not until after the Second World War that cross-dressing was explicitly linked to lesbianism or transsexuality in popular culture.

Illustrated with newspaper cuttings and postcards, Her Husband was a Woman! is an essential resource for students and researchers, revising assumptions about the history of modern gender and sexual identities, especially lesbianism and transgender.

Alison Oram is Professor in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Metropolitan University. She is one of the foremost British scholars in the history of gender and sexuality. Her publications include The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex between Women in Britain from 1780 to 1970 (Routledge, 2001), co-authored with Annmarie Turnbull.

Women's and Gender History

Edited by June Purvis

Emmeline Pankhurst: A biography
June Purvis

Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England
Louise A. Jackson

Crimes of Outrage
Sex, violence and Victorian working women
Shani DCruze

Feminism, Femininity and the Politics of Working Women
The Womens Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War
Gillian Scott

Gender and Crime in Modern Europe
Edited by Margaret L. Arnot and Cornelie Usborne

Gender Relations in German History
Power, agency and experience from the sixteenth to the twentieth century
Edited by Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Harvey

Imaging Home
Gender, race and national identity, 194564
Wendy Webster

Midwives of the Revolution
Female Bolsheviks and women workers in 1917
Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar

No Distinction of Sex?
Women in British universities 18701939
Carol Dyhouse

Policing Gender, Class and Family
Britain, 18501945
Linda Mahood

Prostitution Prevention and reform in England, 18601914 Paula Bartley

Sylvia Pankhurst
Sexual politics and political activism
Barbara Winslow

Votes for Women
Edited by June Purvis and Sandra Holton

Womens History
Britain 18501945
Edited by June Purvis

The Womens Suffrage Movement
A reference guide, 18661928
Elizabeth Crawford

Women and Teacher Training Colleges 1900960
A culture of femininity
Elizabeth Edwards

Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England
Bridget Hill

Women Workers and Gender Identities, 18351913
The cotton and metal industries in England
Carol E. Morgan

Women and Work in Britain since 1840
Gerry Holloway

Outspoken Women
British women writing about sex, 18701969, an anthology
Lesley A. Hall

Womens History, Britain 17001850
An introduction
Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus

The Womens Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland
A regional survey
Elizabeth Crawford

Students
A gendered history
Carol Dyhouse

Women in the British Army
War and the gentle sex, 190748
Lucy Noakes

Quaker Women The Emotional Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 18001920
Sandra Stanley Holton

Her Husband was a Woman!

Women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture

Alison Oram

First published 2007
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2007 Alison Oram

Typeset in Baskerville by
Book Now Ltd, London
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
T J International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Oram, Alison. Her husband was a woman!: women's gender-crossing in modern British popular culture / Alison Oram.

p. cm.(Women's and gender history)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.TransvestismGreat Britain History. 2. Male impersonatorsGreat Britain History. 3. Female-to-male transsexualsGreat BritainHistory. 4. LesbianismGreat BritainHistory. I. Title.
HQ77.2.G7O73 2007
306.77'809410904dc22

2007022516

ISBN10: 0415400066 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0415400074 (pbk)

ISBN13: 9780415400060 (hbk)
ISBN13: 9780415400077 (pbk)

Contents

The ideas in this book have been discussed in a number of conference and seminar papers over the past few years and I have benefited from helpful responses, comments and additional information from many people in the wider academic community. My thanks in relation to specific queries and discussions of particular issues go to: Paula Bartley, Joe Bristow, H. G. Cocks, Lesley Hall and Lizzie Thynne, and for assistance in the final stages of the research to Jenny Collieson. I am enormously grateful to the friends and colleagues who read all or some of the chapters at various stages and gave me very valuable feedback and encouragement: Lucy Bland, Anna Clark, Laura Doan, Lesley Hall, Reina Lewis and Sarah Waters. The process of writing was also aided by the History Girls writing group at the Institute of Historical Research which has been a supportive and inspiring forum. I have learned a great deal from: Lucy Bland, Clare Midgley, Krisztina Robert, Katharina Rowold and Cornelie Usborne.

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