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The first documented case specifically mentioning the term "female husband" was described in an English broadside The Male and Female Husband of 1682. This recounted the case of an intersex person named Mary Jewit who was abandoned, and who was raised as a girl by a midwife in St Albans. Jewit then worked with the nurse for years under a female ...
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.
In The English Historical Review, Emily Rutherford writes, "Manion is sensitive to the part that female husbands played in shoring up white, imperial heteronormativity: showing how a respectable working-class identity was much less available to African-American female husbands, and how female husbands participated in a genocidal settler ...
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.
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.
Assigned female gender at birth but lived as a man. Harry had two long-term relationships with women, each lasting over 20 years. In 1838 and 1859, his gender variance became the subject of local and national newspaper articles, in which he was described as a 'man-woman' and a 'female husband'.
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"
When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage.