Dear
it's Dianne Dugaw: Warrior women and popular balladry, 1650-1850. Cambridge
1989.
I cannot remember a hint for homosexuality in this book, but maybe I wasn't
able to read between the lines. Women used trousers quite often to travel
in disguise. This doesn't mean they were looking for lesbian love.
Especcially in war, there disguise didn't bring them near women, but near
men...
Yours Barbara Boock, Deutsches Volksliedarchiv
At 11:44 10.10.99 -0600, you wrote:
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>Of course, there's the delicious "The Handsome Cabin Boy": "It was either
>you or me betrayed the handsome cabin boy."
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>Diane Dugald (I think) wrote a swell book -- title (again, I think) was
>WOMEN WARRIORS, about crossdressing in broadsides....
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