Cross-dressing
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Cross-dressing or transvestitism is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender.[2] From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and express oneself.
Quotes
[edit]- Rosalind:
Were it not better,
Because that I am more than common tall,
That I did suit me all points like a man?
A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,
A boar-spear in my hand; and—in my heart
Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will—
We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,
As many other mannish cowards have
That do outface it with their semblances.Celia:
What shall I call thee when thou art a man?Rosalind:
I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page;
And therefore look you call me Ganymede.- Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 3
- Viola:
I am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 4