Clothes Make the Man

Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8153-3771-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Reihe: New Middle Ages

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hotchkiss, Valerie R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction * Female Men of God: Cross Dressing in Medieval Hagiography * Lives and Death of Hildegund Von Schsnau * Transvestism on Trial: The Case of Jeanne D'Arc * Female Pope and the Sin of Male Disguise * Disguised Wife Gender Inversion and Gender COnformity * Cross Dressing and Sexuality * Conclusions * Hagiographic Appendix: The Lives of the Transvestite Saints * Notes * Bibliography * Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hotchkiss, Valerie R.