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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) – The four masters dress in women's clothes and coerce their male victims, clothed in wedding dresses, into same-sex marriage. Incorrigible (1975) – Victor Vauthier (Jean-Paul Belmondo) dresses up as a transvestite to expose his client's cheating husband, but is arrested by the police during a raid.
Women dressed as men, and less often men dressed as women, is a common trope in fiction [111] and folklore. For example, in Thrymskvitha , Thor disguised himself as Freya . [ 111 ] These disguises were also popular in Gothic fiction , such as in works by Charles Dickens , Alexandre Dumas, père , and Eugène Sue , [ 111 ] and in a number of ...
Some instances of female-to-male cross-dressing in theatre allowed women to challenge patriarchal notions of gender and explore both masculinity and femininity within this hierarchy. In The Roaring Girl , the protagonist, Moll, cross-dresses for liberty rather than safety, and thus exists in both male and female spaces.
Men dressed as women have been featured in certain traditional customs for centuries. For example, the characters of some regional variants of the traditional mummers' play, which were traditionally always performed by men, include Besom Bet(ty); numerous variations on Bessy or Betsy; Bucksome Nell; Mrs Clagdarse; Dame Dolly; Dame Dorothy; Mrs Finney; Mrs Frail; and many others.
The Chevalière d'Éon (1728–1810) fought with the French dragoons during the Seven Years' War dressed as a male before serving France as a spy in Russia dressed as a female. In 1777 d'Éon began dressing and identifying as a woman and lived as such until her death. When d’Éon died in London in 1810.
A 1928 transvestite pass allowing Gert Katter, a female-to-male trans man who was one of Hirschfeld's patients, to wear male clothing. [4] Magnus Hirschfeld coined the word transvestite (from Latin trans-, "across, over" and vestitus, "dressed") in his 1910 book Die Transvestiten (Transvestites) to refer to the sexual interest in cross-dressing ...
[citation needed] The theatrical term travesti covers both this sort of cross-dressing and also that of male actors dressing as female characters. Both are part of the long history of cross-dressing in music and opera and later in film and television. In opera, a breeches role refers to any male character that is sung and acted by a female singer.
It is often combined with the cosplay of female fictional characters by men . [1] By extension, otokonoko is also a genre of media and fiction about feminine-looking or feminine-dressing men, and often contains erotic or romantic elements. It is mainly aimed at male audience but also appears in a lot of shōjo manga.