Confidential Correspondence On Cross-Dressing 1911-1915

Like the top-shelf magazines books such as this provided a lot of (mainly) innocent and quaint titillation for the gender-fetishists. They still do although now more for their fantasy dimension than for an historical justification they might offer for "going girl". In the end their emphasis on "effeminate men" and "female impersonators" cuts them adrift from the complex and diverse transgender world of the 21st Century. But just over a century ago such things did preoccupy the Edwardian mind. How will the future view "Rupaul's Drag Race"? Is there something a little bit queer about all this?