Clothes Make the Man Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe

Name: Clothes Make the Man Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe
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ISBN: 9780815337713

ISBN-10: 081533771X

ISBN-13: 9780815337713

Edition: 1996

Authors: Valerie R. Hotchkiss

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In this book, the author explores medieval society's fascination with the cross-dressed woman, examining a wide variety of religious, literary, and historical sources that recordedinterpretations of sartorial attempts to overcome gender hierarchy and also illustrate, mainly through the device of inversion, a remarkabley sustained desire to examine an reexamine the nature of social gender identities. Included in the study are investigations of the symbolism underlying the lives of popular transvestite saints; the confluence of hagiography and biography in the historical case of Hildegund von Schonau; the juridical and theological arguments for and against the transvestism of Jeanne d'Arc;…

Book details

Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Series Editor's Foreword


Author's Acknowledgments



Introduction



"Female Men of God": Cross Dressing in Medieval Hagiography



The Lives and Death of Hildegund von Schonau



Transvestism on Trial: The Case of Jeanne D'Arc



The Female Pope and the Sin of Male Disguise



The Disguised Wife: Gender Inversion and Gender Conformity



Cross Dressing and Sexuality



Conclusions


Hagiographic Appendix: The Lives of the Transvestite Saints


Notes


Bibliography


Index