Sapphic Crossings

Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Sapphic Crossings
Ula Lukszo Klein
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28 Feb 2021 US
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9780813945514
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Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men' s clothing from actresses on stage who showed their shapely legs to advantage in men' s breeches to stories of valiant female soldiers and ruthless female pirates. Spanning genres from plays, novels, and poetry to pamphlets and broadsides, the cross-dressing woman came to signal more than female independence or unconventional behaviors; she also came to signal an investment in female same-sex intimacies and sapphic desires. Sapphic Crossings reveals how various British texts from the period associate female cross-dressing with the exciting possibility of intimate, embodied same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender embodiments as crucial not only to the history of sexuality but to the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire. She prompts readers to rethink the roots of lesbianism and transgender identities today and introduces new ways of thinking about embodied sexuality in the past.
Klein is able to make arguments about the ubiquity and importance of cross-dressing women for a variety of different audiences. The clarity and liveliness of the writing will appeal to readers new to Klein' s subjects as well as the experts, who will appreciate the originality of her arguments. --Kristina Straub, Carnegie Mellon University, author of Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ula Lukszo Klein is Director of Women' s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780813945514
Published: 28 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 258

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