Description: She prompts readers to rethink the roots of lesbianism and transgender identities today and introduces new ways of thinking about embodied sexuality in the past.
Review Quotes:
Klein is able to make arguments about the ubiquity and importance of cross-dressing women for a variety of different audiences. The clarity and liveliness of the writing will appeal to readers new to Klein's subjects as well as the experts, who will appreciate the originality of her arguments.
--Kristina Straub, Carnegie Mellon University, author of Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain