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Clothes Make the Man

Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe
By:Valerie R. Hotchkiss
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780815323693
eText ISBN:9781135231712
Edition:1
Copyright:1996
Format:Reflowable

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In this book, the author explores medieval society's fascination with the cross-dressed woman. The author examines a wide variety of religious, literary, and historical sources, which record interpretations of sartorial attempts to overcome gender hierarchy and also illustrate, mainly through the device of inversion, a remarkably sustained desire to examine and reexamine the nature of social gender identities.

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