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Die schöne Lügnerin (1959) – Constanze Hübner (Romy Schneider) sneaks into the ball dressed as a man. In another episode, a secret police agent dresses up in a woman's dress, posing as a flower seller. Swiss Family Robinson (1960) – Janet Munro dresses as a boy to appear less vulnerable to pirates.
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 ...
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.
The 60-year-old was dressed as a Dresden shepherdess, the 35-year-old in modern female dress; they were arrested on grounds they had acted "for the purpose of exciting others to commit an unnatural offence". [13] The same year a landlady reported her lodger for behaving indecently in the parlour window while dressed in women's clothing. [14]
Heinrich Ratjen (20 November 1918 – 22 April 2008), born Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later determined to be male and/or intersex. [1] In some news reports, he was erroneously referred to as Hermann Ratjen and Horst Ratjen.
Conversely, the role of a pantomime dame, a middle aged woman played by a man in drag for comic relief, is still one of the mainstays of panto. Similarly, Georgy Millyar played a role of Baba Yaga, an ugly old woman with supernatural abilities in a dozen of films, including Vasilisa the Beautiful (1940) and Jack Frost (1964). He used to say ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 October 2024. Dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with a different gender Not to be confused with Travesti (gender identity), Transgender, or Transvestic fetishism. Cross-dressing History of cross-dressing In wartime History of drag Rebecca Riots Casa Susanna Pantomime ...