Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe

By Valerie R. Hotchkiss

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081533771X
• ISBN13: 9780815337713
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"