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FEMALE HUSBANDS Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbandsandthewomenwholovedthem.Femalehusbands–peopleassigned femalewhotransedgender,livedasmen,andmarriedwomen–weretruequeer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before World War I, Jen Manion uncoverstheriveting and verypersonal stories ofordinary peoplewho lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, and threat of violence. Female Husbandsweavesthestory oftheirlivesinrelationtobroadersocial,economic, andpoliticaldevelopmentsintheUnitedStatesandtheUnitedKingdomwhile also exploring how attitudes toward female husbands shifted in relation to transformationsingenderpoliticsandwomen’srights,ultimatelyleadingtothe demise of the category of “female husband” in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complexhistoryoftheLGBTQpast. Jen Manion is Associate Professor of History at Amherst College, the author of Liberty's Prisoners:CarceralCultureinEarlyAmerica (2015),andalifelongLGBTQ rightsadvocate. FEMALE HUSBANDS A Trans History Jen Manion AmherstCollege, Massachusetts UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108483803 DOI:10.1017/9781108652834 ©JenManion2020 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2020 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Manion,Jen,1974–author. Title:Femalehusbands:atranshistory/JenManion. Description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:Cambridge University Press,2020.|Includesindex. Identifiers:LCCN2019038186(print)|LCCN2019038187(ebook)| ISBN9781108483803(hardback)|ISBN9781108718271(paperback)| ISBN9781108652834(epub) Subjects:LCSH:Female-to-maletranssexuals–History.|Transgendermen–History.| Husbands–History.|Gendernonconformity–History. Classification:LCCHQ77.9.M262020 (print)|LCCHQ77.9 (ebook)| DDC306.76/809–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019038186 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019038187 ISBN978-1-108-48380-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For Leslie Feinberg (1949 – 2014) Contents Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pageix Introduction: Extraordinary Lives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 PART ONE: UK HUSBANDS, 1740–1840 1 The First FemaleHusband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2 The Pillarof the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 3 The Sailorsand Soldiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 4 The Wives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 PART TWO: US HUSBANDS,1830–1910 5 The Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 6 The Activists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 7 The CriminalizedPoor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 8 The End ofa Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Conclusion: SexTrumps Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Epilogue: TheFirstFemale-to-Male Transsexual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 vii
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