"For some queer reason": The trials and tribulations of Colonel Barker's masquerade in interwar Britain

Signs

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 36-62

  Vernon, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; PUBLICATION; RECUMBENCY; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

DECEPTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; NEWSPAPERS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 33846955628     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/495567     Document Type: Article

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