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Who Were History’s “Female Husbands”? with Professor Jen Manion

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Everyone who was a female husbandikno, was a laborer. So it's really a working class category. As long as one adopted manhood that was consistent with the white working class manhood of their time,. and place where they lived. They had a whole world of occupations open to them that had previously been denied. People who trans ender, we're also often tea naturs, so you could easily get hired as a ship hand. There were a lot of sailors. That was another common thing in the nineteenth century, because the maritime industry was just so huge - there was always a shortage of people to go to sea. We need juicy details on some relationships. Absolutely.

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