Author: Chris Mounsey

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780838754771

A collection of essays that concerns writers or real people of the early modern period who presented their protagonists or themselves as members of the opposite biological sex. The collection demonstrates the variety of motives for such acts of gender passing, and offers interpretations that shed some light on the probable intentions of the gender passers.