ISBN:
9780815323693
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (204 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
New Middle Ages
Series Statement:
New Middle Ages Ser. v.1
Parallel Title:
Print version Clothes Make the Man : Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Medieval, 500-1500
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Clothes Make the Man; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Author's Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. "Female Men of God": Cross Dressing in Medieval Hagiography; Chapter 3. The Lives and Death of Hildegund Von Schönau (†1188); Chapter 4. Transvestism on Trial: the Case of Jeanne D'arc; Chapter 5. The Female Pope and the Sin of Male Disguise; Chapter 6. The Disguised Wife: Gender Inversion and Gender Conformity; Chapter 7. Cross Dressing and Sexuality; Chapter 8. Conclusions; Hagiographic Appendix: The Lives of the Transvestite Saints; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
BibliographyIndex;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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