Answer:
The person who was accused in the incident was Eliza DeWolf
Explanation:
The question is not complete since it does not provide the options to answer it, here are the options:
* Clare Sears
* Eliza DeWolf
* John Roberts
* Ferdinand Haisch
Arresting Dress by Clare Sears is a book that tries to reconstruct a part of the history and culture of San Francisco as she used different sources of information such as codebooks, arrest records, and court reports, though this she present cases of people who were cross-dressers and who gave a turn to society because of their impact, the case that is mentioned in the vignette is the one of Eliza Dewolf
Answer:
The person who was accused in the incident was ELIZA DEWOLF.
Explanation:
The Options are:
A. Clare Sears
B. Eliza Dewolf
C. John Roberts
D. Ferdinand Haisch
Book Title: Arresting Dress
Author: Clare Sears
Year Released: 2015
Arresting Dress is a book which traces the anti-cross-dressing laws. The author moves from municipal courtrooms and codebooks to newspaper scandals, theaters, and performances.
The book further revealed that the law did not simply police normative gender. The tenacity of those who defied the law, spoke out when sentenced, and presented different gender possibilities were revealed in the book.
Eliza Dewolf was accused in the opening vignette of a cross dressing incident in San Francisco in the middle of the nineteenth century which caused a massive social and media response and even made newspaper headlines.
