Their gender-crossing motivations and popular culture’s surprising response to them
In the early twentieth century hundreds of women, beyond those confined to the theatrical world such as Vesta Tilly, chose to dress and act as men in their everyday life. Alison Oram, Professor in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Metropolitan University and author of 'Her Husband was a Woman!” joins Jane to speak about some of these women, their gender-crossing motivations and popular culture’s surprising response to them in an age when sexuality was not a word on everyone’s lips.
'Her Husband was a Woman! – Women’s gender-crossing in modern British popular culture' by Alison Oram is published by Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-40007-7.
