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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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Frederick Park (right) and Ernest Boulton as Fanny and Stella, 1869. Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were Victorian cross-dressers.Both were homosexual men from upper-middle-class families, both enjoyed wearing women's clothes and both enjoyed taking part in theatrical performances—playing the women's roles when they did so.