You might find some useful leads in an essay I wrote on female cross-dressing in the SCA's period (and in the SCA). While about half the essay is more on the "interactional theater" aspects of women cross-dressing in the SCA, the first part is an exploration of the motifs and evidence for cross-dressing women in history and literature up through the Renaissance. And there's an extensive bibliography for further reading. The article is here: http://www.heatherrosejones.com/gender/scacrossdressing.html
Heather On Oct 6, 2013, at 6:06 PM, Elizabeth Jones wrote: > Does anyone have SCA period (i.e. medieval to 1600) images or > documentation referring to cross dressing. I am in the early stages of > trying to organise a Bob and Kate feast around this time next year > (for those unfamiliar with the concept the name comes from the episode > of Blackadder II episode 'bells' in which a young woman named Kate > disguises herself as a boy called Bob to become Blackadder's > manservant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_%28Blackadder%29 so > obviously it's about cross dressing). It has to be in October as it's > supposed to be a fundraiser for the Ovarian Cancer foundation's > 'Frocktober' campaign (www.frocktober.org). A year's lead time means I > hopefully have enough time to get people OK with, or maybe even > excited about, the idea of cross dressing my two basic strategies are > telling people that it's for a good cause and showing them that it's > period (at least in certain circumstances). The 'it's period' part is > where I need the help of you lovely people to dig out all of those > obscure sources you have tucked away. > > Thanks for your help in advance, > Elizabeth > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
