Clare Sears: 1 book
Arresting Dress
Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating...
