Bibliograph

Gender rebels, 50 influential cross-dressers, impersonators, name-changers, & game-changers, Anneka Harry

Type

Label

Gender rebels, 50 influential cross-dressers, impersonators, name-changers, & game-changers, Anneka Harry

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gender rebels

Responsibility statement

Anneka Harry

Sub title

50 influential cross-dressers, impersonators, name-changers, & game-changers

Summary

Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t done. You'll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in London with full military honours; marauding 18th-century pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who collided on the high seas after swapping their petticoats for pantaloons; Ellen Craft, an escaped slave who masqueraded as a white master to spirit her husband-to-be to freedom; and Dorothy 'Billy' Tipton, the swinging jazz musician who lived as a man until their death in 1989, taking 5 wives along the way. Then there are the women who still have to dress like men to live their best lives, like the inspirational soccer-loving Zahra Khoshnavaz in Iran, who risks everything to take her place in the stands

Classification