Cross-Dressing: Fashion and Gender Expression in the Eighteenth Century

Cross-dressing is a plot device in many 18th-century plays and stories, but what did it mean when real people put on the clothing associated with the opposite sex?

Click the Get Tickets link to join Amelia Rauser, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Art History and Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty at Franklin & Marshall College, for a look at a few historical case studies of 18th-century cross-dressers and note the diverse historical circumstances that influenced their public gender expression.

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