Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval EuropeIn 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. |
Contents
Authors Acknowledgments | 1 |
Chapter 1 Introduction | 3 |
Cross Dressing in Medieval Hagiography | 13 |
Chapter 3 The Lives and Death of Hildegund Von Schönau 1188 | 33 |
the Case of Jeanne Darc | 49 |
Chapter 5 The Female Pope and the Sin of Male Disguise | 69 |
Gender Inversion and Gender Conformity | 83 |
Other editions - View all
Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe Valerie R. Hotchkiss Limited preview - 2012 |
Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe Valerie R. Hotchkiss Limited preview - 2000 |
Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe Valerie R. Hotchkiss No preview available - 1996 |
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