Clothes Make the Man
| Author | : Valerie R. Hotchkiss |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2012-11-12 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781135231712 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1135231710 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (710 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Clothes Make the Man by : Valerie R. Hotchkiss
Download or read book Clothes Make the Man written by Valerie R. Hotchkiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author explores medieval society's fascination with the cross-dressed woman. The author examines a wide variety of religious, literary, and historical sources, which record interpretations of sartorial attempts to overcome gender hierarchy and also illustrate, mainly through the device of inversion, a remarkably sustained desire to examine and reexamine the nature of social gender identities.