Her Husband Was a Woman! Women’s Gender‐Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture

Alison Oram’s latest book, Her Husband Was a Woman!, is a rich and fascinating study of the popular discourse of the gender-crossing woman in twentieth-century British culture. Based on a comprehensive and detailed survey of the popular Sunday press between 1900 and 1960, the book traces the evolution of narratives of gender-crossing and changing attitudes to cross-dressing women, same-sex desire and physical sex change throughout this period. Introducing a wealth of intriguing stories, Alison Oram demonstrates the enduring popularity of the cross-dressed woman in popular culture throughout the first half of the twentieth century.