Emily Skidmore

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Emily Skidmore


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Emily Skidmore's research interests are U.S. women's and gender history, cultural history, and queer studies. Her book, True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, will be published by NYU Press in the fall of 2017. She has presented her research at numerous national conferences, including the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, the National Women's Studies Annual Conference, the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Her work has also been featured on the NPR podcast, “Backstory."

Dr. Skidmore's article, "Ralph Kerwineo's Queer Body: Narrating the Scales of Social Membership in the Early Twentieth Century," appeared in a special issu
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“For example, in 1881, Chicago passed an ordinance that read, “Any person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, or an improper person to be allowed in or on the streets, highways, thoroughfares, or public places in this city, shall not therein or thereon expose himself to public view, under the penalty of a fine of $1 for each offense.”
Emily Skidmore, True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century



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