(Un) Masking Desire: Cross-dressing and the crisis of gender in New Woman fiction.

Discusses the development of female cross-dressing as a theme in feminist fiction during England's Victorian period. Background of individual and collective rebellion; Lived experience transmuted into intertextual referentiality; How cross-dressing was linked with the themes of social purity and sexual exploitation; Reconfiguration of the Amazon heroine as a middle-class daughter.