Girls will be boys: cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934

Introduction

Part 1. Cross-dressed women as American ideals (1908-1921)

Moving picture uplift and the female boy

Cowboy girls, girl spies, and the homoerotic frontier

Intermezzo codes of deviance (1892-1914)

Cultural hierarchy and the detection of sexual deviance in a Florida enchantment (1894 and 1914)

Part 2. The emergence of lesbian legibility (1921-1934)

Enter the lesbian: cosmopolitanism, trousers, and lesbians in the 1920s

The lesbian vogue and backlash against cross-dressed women in the 1930s

Conclusion

Appendix: U.S. films featuring cross-dressed women, 1904-1934.