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As Clare Sears writes in “Electric Brilliancy: Cross-Dressing Law and Freak Show Displays in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco,” public, but not private cross-dressing was against the law and, she notes, “As such, cross-dressing was marked as a deviant and secretive practice, rather than a public activity and identification.” A widow’s garb was the perfect cover for a transvestite, who, given the usual domestic organization of a 19 th -century working-class household, had little privacy or time for cross-dressing

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