[Sca-cooks] trans-gender clothing

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

Cross-dressing was a major part of a good friend's PhD dissertation.
She's getting her PhD this weekend - yay!  If anybody is interested in
more info on the subject, I can forward questions on to her.  I believe
she'll also be teaching a class on it and other related subjects this
comeing Pennsic.

-Magdalena

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Glenda.commented:
>
>>(still can't understand why Western society as a whole has no problem with
>>women wearing traditional men's clothing, but has major 'issues' with the
>>other way around that even extends to the traditional male kilt)
>>
>
> Well, through most cultures and times we study, trans-gender
> clothing for either sex was looked down upon. There appear to have
> been a bunch more women who dressed as men than vice-versa though.
> There were probably a number of economic and cultural reasons for
> this, but the main one was that throughout period women generally
> had a second class status and trading up made a lot more sense
> than trading down.
>
> In late 16th C./early 17th C. England, it became a fashion
> statement for some women to cross-dress.
>
> I know there have been some articles/class notes on this done in
> the SCA, since I've taken one or two classes on this. But I don't
> have them in my files. There is a small amount of info in this file
> in the Florilegium:
> cross-dressng-msg  (4K)  8/29/00    Cross-dressing in period.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/CLOTHING/cross-dressng-msg.html
> --
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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