Cross-dressing in The Roaring Girl

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Here is the text itself. The Roaring Girl, by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton

Following are some surveys of historic female cross-dressers.

• Number One
• Number Two

"Illustration from a book of anecdotes published in Amsterdam in 1659. It depicts a woman discovered on the battlefield in 1589, found killed together with her lover. Both were soldiers in the Dutch army during the Revolt against Spain."

"Illustration, after a portrait from 1630, of Catalina de Erauso, a Spanish 'conquistador' around 1600."

Scholarly links regarding cross dressing

• Myth, Stereotype, and Cross-Gender Identity in the DSM-IV -- An examination, from a historical and social perspe ctive, of the diagnostic categories of Transvestic Fetishism and Gender Identity Disorder in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV).
• Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls: Cross-Dressing in Popular Turn of the Century College Fiction by Sherrie Inness. Journal of American Culture, Summer 1995
• Latest on Cross-Dressing Boy (October 1996) An AP news report on a high-school boy suspen ded for cross-dressing.
• Queer TheoryAn under-construction bibliography of Queer Theory books
• When Men Were Women and Women Were Men: 19th-Century Cross-Dressers from Georgia and Elsewhere. An article from the Flagpole
• Lieutenant Nun--A catalog entry regarding a biography of Catalina de Erauso (pictured above)
• Disguise & Gender-Role Reversal in The Decameron -- part of a larger web page dealing with The Decameron
• Sexuality and Gender A set of links dealing with various gender issues.
• Cross Dressing at DartmouthA chronological history of cross-dresssing at Dartmouth from 1782.
• Gender Issues and Resources A list of links about sexuality and gender.
• Women Dressed as Men BibliographyA series of references to books dealing with women cross-dressing as m en.
• Introduction: James Joyce's Ulysses: A Feminist Perspective, Annotated Bibliography by Brittney G. Chenault This bib liography partially deals with Dedalus' feelings on transvestitism.

Other (not-so-scholarly) links regarding transvestism

• Rose's - Services A club for transvestites.
• International TV Repartee Information on International TV Repartee, a serious but fun magazine about cross- dressing.
• Transvestite Transformations A homepage for a business specializing in helping men dress as women.
• ZIA Clothing, Men's, Cross-Dressing Resources A list of links for clothing stores for transvestites.
• Shoe Styles Home Page Sells women's shoes in sizes for men.