[Sca-cooks] cross-dressing

[Stefan li Rous]

Kolfrosta replied to me with:
>>Okay. See this file in the CLOTHING section of the Florilegium: :-)
>>cross-dressng-msg  (4K)  8/29/00    Cross-dressing in period.
>>
>>It did tend to be girls dressing as boys rather than the other way
>>around, for various reasons.
>
> Norse women were actually allowed to dress in pants and pick up weapons
> training at the age ot 12.  Unfortunately they were strongly encouraged to
> dress like a lady and put her weapons down in favour of a proper ladylike
> life at the age of 20.  Some women actually defied their families and to
> avoid being exiled they came up with a term "Man souled woman"  They were
> not allowed to marry or hold any of the female responsibilities in the
> community.  This happened so rarely I only found reference to it
> twice.  I'll pull it up from the library and copy it again for all should
> they want it. :)

Please do! This is the first I've heard of this. I'd love to have more
information, especially with referances or a bibliography. My file above
is rather small. Somewhere I have a class handout on the "Roaring Girls"
of the (I think) 1560s. Sort of like the 20th Century Flappers. But
they aren't in the files yet.


>>>Baiting with sweets or sushi is the best way to catch this Huntress :)
>>I'm sure glad there was an 'or' in there. Somehow, I don't think
>>chocolate covered sushi sounds very good...
>
> Actually chocolate covered sushi sounds vile.  The two should never be
> mixed into one. LOL

Isn't that what I said? :-)

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