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The practice of women dressing as men was generally viewed more positively as compared to men dressing as women. Altenburger states that female-to-male cross-dressing entailed a movement forward in terms of social status, power, and freedom [2] whereas men who cross-dressed were ridiculed or otherwise viewed negatively. [4]
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 ...
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.
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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.
Jane Dieulafoy (1851–1916) was a French woman who, when her husband enlisted during the Franco-Prussian War, dressed as a man and fought alongside them. Nadezhda Durova (1783–1866) was a decorated Russian cavalry soldier of the Napoleonic Wars who spent nine years disguised as a man.
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 ...
In other words, it is a man, (the actor), dressing as a woman, dressing as a man, dressing as a woman. Belle-Belle ou Le Chevalier Fortuné (1698), a fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy in which the female protagonist, Belle-Belle, disguises herself as a male knight to help the ruler of her kingdom defeat an emperor.