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What is Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender about?

In any society, the perception of femininity and masculinity is not necessarily dependent on female or male genitalia. Cross dressing, gender impersonation, and long-term masquerades of the opposite sex are commonplace throughout history. In contemporary American culture, the behavior occurs most often among male heterosexuals and homosexuals, sometimes for erotic pleasure, sometimes not. In the past, however, cross dressing was for the most part practiced more often by women than men. Although males often burlesqued women and gave comic impersonations of them, they rarely attempted a change of public gender until the twentieth century. This phenomenon, according to Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough, has implications for any understanding of the changing relationships between the sexes in the twentieth century. In most Western societies, being a man and demonstrating masculinity is more highly prized than being a woman and displaying femininity. Some non-Western societies, however, are more tolerant and even encourage men to behave like women and women to act like men. __Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender__ not only surveys cross dressing and gender impersonation throughout history

Who reads Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender?

Author

Vern L Bullough; Bonnie Bullough; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812214314

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Anthropology

Rating

3.78 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14