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Gender expression

External manifestation of gender identity and how it is percieved

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Gender expression

26 images from works
  • Two boys in single beds applying make-up and perfume to themselves. Colour process print after Rob-Vel, 193-.
  • Photograph of Caroly, Soprano singer.
  • A man poses on a beach.
  • Two boys in single beds applying make-up and perfume to themselves. Colour process print after Rob-Vel, 193-.
  • Foster and Ninon in character, having a conversation. Photographic postcard, 192- (?).
  • A Scotsman and his female companion swap his kilt and her trousers after going to the public baths. Colour process print after BF, 195-.
  • Foster and Ninon in character, having a conversation. Photographic postcard, 192- (?).
  • A man poses outside wearing a long coat.
  • Androgynous fashions of the 1920s. Colour process print, 192--.
  • A skinny man wearing a frilly pink shirt, striped trousers and heels (?), while smoking. Colour process print after Nertz, 196-.

Works from the collections

46 works

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    A young man called Oscar is asked by his mother whether he wears hairpins (regarded by her as effeminate). Colour process print, ca. 1907.

    | Date: [1907?] | Reference: 2059374i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Pictures

    Photograph of a couple.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1930] | Reference: 3305654i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A skinny man wearing a frilly pink shirt, striped trousers and heels (?), while smoking. Colour process print after Nertz, 196-.

    Nertz, active approximately 1965. | Date: [between 1960 and 1969?] | Reference: 2059414i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Books
    • Online

    How to support your non-binary family member / Alyssa Giannini.

    Giannini, Elliott | Date: 2021
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Billie Manders in character. Photographic postcard, 192-.

    | Date: [between 1920 and 1929?] | Reference: 2060751i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.

Related topics

Gender Identity
Male impersonators
Gender nonconformity
Sexual and Gender Minorities
Transvestism
Gender Role
Female impersonators

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