I think there lots of brainy folk among you who know you history. I just find this interesting.
In the past, how did all this work?
We know that a significant proportion of people have always lived their lives differently from the majority of those of their sex. And that sometimes society tolerated or even welcomed this and found them special roles. But, sadly, more often it did not.
It seems unlikely to me that people would have articulated the idea of “a woman in a man’s body”. I suspect that metaphor dates from a period when some level of surgical intervention had become possible or at least conceivable.
I suspect, thinking about all the gender switching in Shakespeare, that simply pretending to be of the opposite sex was a more powerful and meaningful idea than it is today.
I have a strong sense that the availability of medical technology (or not) must play a big role.
Anyone know?
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Amoregentlemanlikemanner · 12/02/2018 09:27
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