Cross dressing, sex, and gender

Abstract

PART I. CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: CROSS DRESSING IN PERSPECTIVE -Mythology and History in the Ancient World -Cross Dressing and Social Status in the Middle Ages -Playing with Gender: Cross Dressing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -Cross Dressing Women and Men -Challenges to the Hierarchy -Women and Cross Dressing in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -Men, Gender Concepts, and Transvestism in the Nineteenth Century PART II. MODERN PERSPECTIVES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEDICAL MODEL -Drag Queens and Cross Dressing on the Stage -Transsexualism -The Emergence of Organized Transvestism and Its Implications -Current Explanations of Cross Dressing -What to Do about Cross Dressing