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Male Impersonators/Female Cross Dressing
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February 1999
Compiled by Anne Marquis
of Edmonton Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
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Fiction
- TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE, Avi (juvenile fiction)
- FORTUNE IS A WOMAN, Elizabeth Adler
- THE MALE IMPERSONATOR, E.F. Benson
- Short story/novella set in Tilling.
- THE SHELTERING SKY, Paul Bowles
- The main character (Kat) dresses as a man for safety purposes. The novel takes place in the Middle East (turn of this century) and after her husband passes away, Kat dresses up as a man for various reasons . .
- THE BEACON AT ALEXANDRIA, Gillian Bradshaw
- A young Greek woman disguises herself as a man so she can study
medicine at Alexandria, and eventually ends up as an army surgeon.
- PLAYING THE JACK, Mary Brown
- HIGH HEARTS, Rita Mae Brown
- Civil war
- THE JOURNEY, Anne Cameron
- ANY FOUR WOMEN COULD ROB THE BANK OF ITALY, Ann Cornelisen
- Four English and American women living in Italy decide to disprove the macho notion prevailing around them that there are certain crimes no woman would commit. They commit a daring robbery dressed as men, but that's just the beginning of the fun in this neat story.
- POPE JOAN, Donna N. Cross
- CHARLES, REX, Ethel M. Dell
- WHITE WOLFE, Susan Edwards
- Set in the American west, a young girl is not allowed to join her brothers on a wagon train heading west and masquerades as a boy to do so.
- CARAVAN, Dorothy Gilman
- Character dressing as a man while in the deserts in Africa.
- THE GENTLEMAN OUTLAW AND ME, ELI, Mary Dowling Hahn (Young adult)
- POYSON GARDEN, Karen Harper
- THE CORINTHIAN, Georgette Heyer
- In this regency romance, Pen Creed masquerades as a boy to escape her matchmaking aunt.
- THESE OLD SHADES, Georgette Heyer
- The heroine Leonie, who has spent much of her life masquerading as a boy on the streets of 18th century Paris, becomes a page to an English duke.
- THE MASQUERADERS, Georgette Heyer
- A brother and sister switch roles after escaping the failed attempt to reinstate Bonnie Prince Charlie.
- FANNY, Erica Jong
- Takes place in eighteenth century where the character conceals herself as a man for a large chunk of the book.
- THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE, Laurie R. King
- Character Mary Russell dons a boy's and then a man's outfit to work alongside Sherlock Holmes. (series)
- THE WOMAN WARRIOR, Maxine Hong Kingston
- CATHERINE, CATHERINE, Ingrid MacDonald
- 17th century woman cross-dressing to join the army
- THE CHANGELING, Alison McLead
- Cross-dressing pirate Anne Bonny
- BUFFALO GIRLS, Larry McMurtry
- A BREACH OF PROMISE, Anne Perry
- AN EXCELLENT MYSTERY and ONE CORPSE TOO MANY, Ellis Peters
- The author uses this device in at least these two of the Cadfael books.
- TWELFTH NIGHT, William Shakespeare
- Viola masquerades as Cesario when she is shipwrecked on a foreign shore. Her twin brother Sebastian shows up to complicate matters.
- AS YOU LIKE IT, Shakespeare
- Rosalind, dressed as a boy, escapes the uncle who has usurped her father's dukedom and flees into the forest of Arden.
- ALL TRUE ADVENTURES OF LIDIE NEWTON, Jane Smiley
- DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT, E. Thane
- The main female character dresses as a young boy/man to be close to her love (w/out his knowing her true gender).
- LORD OF THE RINGS, J. R. R. Tolkien
- Eowyn, the niece to the king of Rohan goes to war dressed as a young man.
- CUE FOR TREASON, Geoffrey Trease
- A girl masquerades as a boy and helps to foil a plot against Elizabeth I -- I believe she was acting in Shakespeare's plays, probably doing the girl parts. (juvenile fiction)
- JACKAROO, Cynthia Voigt
- A woman masquerading as a near-Robinhood type character, set in a late medieval fantasy world.
- THE PASSION, Jeanette Winterson
- ASHES IN THE WIND, Woodiwiss
- I vaguely recall the heroine dressing as a boy/man/slave during the Civil War.
- ORLANDO, Virginia Woolf
- SEA STAR: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF ANNE BONNY, PIRATE QUEEN, Jekel, Pamela
Folklore
- YENTL THE YESHIVA BOY, Isaac Bashevis Singer
- MULAN
- HANDSOME HEROINES: WOMEN AS MEN IN FOLKLORE, Shahrukh
- Retellings of folktales about women dressing and posing as men and engaging in some sort of heroic deeds
Non-fiction
- SUITS ME,
- A biography about Billy Tipton, a blues/jazz singer who worked, and lived, as a man
- SEAFARING WOMEN
- Section on Warriors in particular
- SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE, Jeanette Foster
- AMAZONS AND MILITARY MAIDS: WOMEN WHO DRESSED AS MEN IN THE PURSUIT OF LIFE, LIBERTY, AND HAPPINESS, Julie Wheelwright (1989)
- "Women Pirates and Pirate's Women" IN UNDER THE BLACK FLAG: THE ROMANCE & REALITY OF LIFE AMONG THE PIRATES, David Cordingly (1996)
- VESTED INTERESTS: CROSS DRESSING AND CULTURAL ANXIETY, Marjorie Garber (1992)
- TRANSGENDER WARRIORS : MAKING HISTORY FROM JOAN OF ARC TO RUPAUL Leslie
Feinberg (1996)
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