The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern EuropeIn 17th and 18th century Europe, especially Holland, England and Germany, so many women chose to dress and live as men, that an underground tradition of female transvestism within the popular culture can be detected. This study, based upon 119 well-documented Dutch cases of female transvestism, is the first of its kind and tells us how these women adapted to male life and why, once discovered, reactions to them were both fierce and varied. It also explores the reasons why they chose to change gender. Special attention is devoted to transvestism by one partner as the only way in which lesbian love was conceiveable in this period. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 7
Page 56
... Sodomy was considered a very serious sin and a crime that should be- and was - punished by death . But a great difference between this and the later notion of homosexuality is that sodomy was thought to concern incidental acts , and not ...
... Sodomy was considered a very serious sin and a crime that should be- and was - punished by death . But a great difference between this and the later notion of homosexuality is that sodomy was thought to concern incidental acts , and not ...
Page 57
... sodomy . However , only a very few legal proceedings are known where the sole indictment was for tribady between two women living as women . The number of cases of lesbian relation- ships we know of in Europe before the nineteenth ...
... sodomy . However , only a very few legal proceedings are known where the sole indictment was for tribady between two women living as women . The number of cases of lesbian relation- ships we know of in Europe before the nineteenth ...
Page 80
... sodomy , which according to God's law and all civil edicts , is forbidden upon pain of severe punishment and penal law ' . The punishment he called for , therefore , was that the prisoner ' shall be condemned to be bound and put alive ...
... sodomy , which according to God's law and all civil edicts , is forbidden upon pain of severe punishment and penal law ' . The punishment he called for , therefore , was that the prisoner ' shall be condemned to be bound and put alive ...
Contents
MOTIVES AND TRADITION | 25 |
The History of Sexuality | 47 |
CONDEMNATION AND PRAISE | 73 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achttiende eeuw adventures Amsterdam RA Anna ARA VOC Archief army arrested autobiography Barbara Adriaens biography Breda Brielle C. R. Boxer Catalina de Erauso Chapter concerning Cornelia court criminal Dekker Den Haag discovered disguised women dressed in men's Dutch Republic eighteenth century Elisabeth England English entry Europe example female cross-dressing female sailors female soldiers female transvestism Gelderland gender Geschiedenis Gijsse Gouda Groningen Haag Haarlem Hannah Snell Hendrickje hermaphroditism Heroine Hilletje History husband Indies Jacobs Johanna judicial archives Kersteman Leiden lesbian living London lover Magnus Hirschfeld male homosexuals Maria van Antwerpen Maritgen Jans marriage married Meer men's clothing motives Nederlandsche vrouwen Netherlands Nieuwe nineteenth century Paris Pieters prison punishment reactions reality relationship role Rotterdam sentence seventeenth and eighteenth seventeenth century sexual ship social sodomy story sworn virgins theme tradition of female Transsexualism transvestism trial tribady Trijn Jurriaens Trijntje VOC reis VOC-sailor VOC-soldier Willem woman