Valerie R. Hotchkiss, "Clothes Make the Man : Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe "
English | ISBN: 0815323697 | 1996 | 214 pages | EPUB | 951 KB
English | ISBN: 0815323697 | 1996 | 214 pages | EPUB | 951 KB
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.