Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco, Paperback/Clare Sears - Duke University Press

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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 over one hundred arrests before the century\'s end.
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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 over one hundred arrests before the century\'s end