This dissertation is a study of the cross-dressed characters who appear repeatedly in literary texts and historical documents in seventeenth-century France. I employ the term cross-dressing to encompass all clothing strategies purposefully applied to manipulate sexual, economic, and social codes. Given this perspective, I use the cross-dresser as a kind of lens through which to view, and to question, the early, interconnected development of thinking about gender, literary genre, and, in modern terms, class status. I consider a variety of texts and genres--novels, fairy tales, theater, memoirs, political pamphlets, iconographs, and biographies--with particular emphasis on women authors prolific in their day but undervalued by modern reader...
Feminist scholars of Shakespeare and contemporaries have become increasingly interested in the pract...
This paper examines the diverse possibilities of female representations in Christine de Pizan’s The ...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 60-64.Introduction --- 1. Meanings of cross-dressing in medie...
This dissertation is a study of the cross-dressed characters who appear repeatedly in literary texts...
This dissertation analyzes cross-dressing as a means through which texts (re)construct masculinity a...
In this dissertation, I examine the tensions between class and gender in noblewomen's memoirs, a gen...
This dissertation considers the contes de fées written towards the end of the seventeenth century. T...
textThe dissertation centers on representations of women in the genres of romance, pastourelle and f...
My dissertation argues that various efforts to standardize the French language over the period 1538-...
This dissertation argues that understandings of gender subtly transformed throughout the sixteenth a...
This thesis investigates cross-dressing as a historical practice and as a literary motif German text...
This thesis investigates the uses of the literary motif of cross-dressing in medieval French literat...
In this dissertation, I show that instances of cross-dressing and female-to-male sex change in four ...
This dissertation investigates the textual gesture whereby a male author--the ladies\u27 man of my t...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. What Butler Saw: Cross-Dressing and Spect...
Feminist scholars of Shakespeare and contemporaries have become increasingly interested in the pract...
This paper examines the diverse possibilities of female representations in Christine de Pizan’s The ...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 60-64.Introduction --- 1. Meanings of cross-dressing in medie...
This dissertation is a study of the cross-dressed characters who appear repeatedly in literary texts...
This dissertation analyzes cross-dressing as a means through which texts (re)construct masculinity a...
In this dissertation, I examine the tensions between class and gender in noblewomen's memoirs, a gen...
This dissertation considers the contes de fées written towards the end of the seventeenth century. T...
textThe dissertation centers on representations of women in the genres of romance, pastourelle and f...
My dissertation argues that various efforts to standardize the French language over the period 1538-...
This dissertation argues that understandings of gender subtly transformed throughout the sixteenth a...
This thesis investigates cross-dressing as a historical practice and as a literary motif German text...
This thesis investigates the uses of the literary motif of cross-dressing in medieval French literat...
In this dissertation, I show that instances of cross-dressing and female-to-male sex change in four ...
This dissertation investigates the textual gesture whereby a male author--the ladies\u27 man of my t...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. What Butler Saw: Cross-Dressing and Spect...
Feminist scholars of Shakespeare and contemporaries have become increasingly interested in the pract...
This paper examines the diverse possibilities of female representations in Christine de Pizan’s The ...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 60-64.Introduction --- 1. Meanings of cross-dressing in medie...