Female Husbands and the Expansion of Policing in the 19th Century

The Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters Virtual Fall Lectures are free and open to all! Please visit http://bit.ly/2020-fall-lectures to register.

On the eve of war over slavery, Northern elites, reformers, and the police who worked for them viewed transing gender as one of many threats to the social order. Join Jen Manion, author of Female Husbands: A Trans History, for a discussion of female husbands and others who transed gender for work, life, or freedom were subject to increased scrutiny, interrogation, and arrest in the mid to late 19th century.