Many thanks to all list members who dug out examples of these. Most if not
all of them seem to have been women dressing as men for practical reasons.
Miranda has been finding examples of classical priests (male) dressing as
women for what appear to be symbolic reasons and is interested in this as a
form of liminality, permeability of boundaries &c. I wonder whether what
she may have is relics of earlier ritual behaviour (like our priests in
long robes)
Anyway, thanks again
maddy
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