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These women are just a few among many who have disguised themselves as men in order to be able to fight in many different wars. Others who have used gender disguise for this purpose include Kit Kavanaugh/Christian Davies, Hannah Snell, Sarah Emma Edmonds, Frances Clayton, Dorothy Lawrence, Zoya Smirnow, and Brita Olofsdotter. [62] [63]
Conversely, men would dress as women to avoid being drafted, the mythological precedent for this being Achilles hiding at the court of Lycomedes dressed as a girl to avoid participation in the Trojan War. Several tales of the Desert Fathers speak of monks who were disguised women, and being discovered only when their bodies were prepared for ...
Hannah Snell (1723–1792) was a British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier. Many people have engaged in cross-dressing during wartime under various circumstances and for various motives. This has been especially true of women, whether while serving as a soldier in otherwise all-male armies, while protecting themselves or ...
Clair E. Schuler, a Texas drag queen, revealed her involvement in helping the violent millionaire disguise himself as a woman to evade the repercussions of his crime. IMDb 21.
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) – Huckleberry Finn (Elijah Wood) disguises himself as a girl under the name Sarah-Mary Williams to steal things in a woman's house. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) – Little John, Ahchoo, Will Scarlet O'Hara and Blinkin disguise themselves as women to go see the archery contest that Robin of Loxley is ...
After the May Fourth Movement in the 1910s, women were once again permitted to perform in China, and both men and women were cast true to their gender. [11] Many of the characters in Chinese Opera were performed by men; they cross-dressed to play the roles of women.
Mr. Rochester disguised as a Gypsy woman sitting at the fireplace. Illustration by F. H. Townsend in the second edition of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre.. Cross-dressing as a literary motif is well attested in older literature but is becoming increasingly popular in modern literature as well. [1]
An Indiana man is accused of using hidden cameras disguised as alarm clocks to record women in his home without their consent, police said. Kristan Peter Reibel of Fishers, Indiana, faces two ...