Before trans three gender stories from nineteenth-century France /

"This biographical study of three late nineteenth-century French writers looks at how transgender identities were expressed and understood before the modern category of transgender existed. At once construed as oddities and celebrated for their accomplishments, archaeologist and explorer Jane D...

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Main Author: Mesch, Rachel,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Physical Description: 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Jane Dieulafoy : masculinity for God & country
  • Rachilde : "To be strange or nothing at all"
  • Marc de Montifaud : "I am me".