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A female husband is a person born as a woman, living as a man, who marries a woman. The term was used from the seventeenth century, and was popularised in 1746 by Henry Fielding 's fictionalised account of the trial of Mary Hamilton , titled The Female Husband .
Charles Hamilton (born Mary Hamilton) was an English 18th-century female husband.In 1746, Hamilton – while living as a man – married Mary Price. [1] [2] After Price reported she was suspicious of Hamilton's manhood to local authorities, Hamilton was prosecuted for vagrancy, and sentenced in 1746 to a public whipping in four towns and to six months imprisonment with hard labour.
Female Husbands: A Trans History is a history book by Jen Manion, a professor of History and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College, [1] published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. [2]
Female husbands [4] on the other hand, were women who assumed roles typically associated with men, including the responsibilities of a husband within a marriage. This practice was often linked to issues of infertility, as a woman might take on the role of a husband to ensure the continuity of her family line.
Husband and wife, 1951 Marriage of the Virgin, a Renaissance period painting depicting a marriage. A spouse is a significant other in a marriage. [1] A male spouse is called a husband while a female spouse is called a wife.
English: The caption below the image reads: "Portrait of THE FEMALE HUSBAND! who, under the assumed name of 'James Allen' was married for 21 years without once disclosing her sex _ she resided and earned her living as a Sawyer, at Redriffe, where she was killed, Jany. 13th 1829"
Surrogate marriage, also referred to as woman-to-man marriage, is a distinctive practice prevalent among certain African communities, notably the Igbo people of Nigeria. This unique form of marriage involves a woman marrying one or more men with the primary objective of producing children through the bride on behalf of the female-husband.
Husband and Wife (1523) by Lorenzo Lotto. A husband is a man involved in a marital relationship, commonly referred to as a spouse. The specific rights, responsibilities, and societal status attributed to a husband can vary significantly across different cultures and historical periods, reflecting a global perspective on this role.