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I haven't read it yet, but I think Marjorie Garber's "VESTED INTERESTS: Cross-
Dressing and Cultural Anxiety" has a chapter on cross-dressing saints.
Duc

Quoting DANIEL KLINE <[log in to unmask]>:

> You might also look at the Byzantine transvestite saints (Nuns Disguised
> as Monks) at Paul Halsall's Internet Medieval Sourcebook
> <<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook3.html#byz1>>:
> 1. Life of St. Mary/Marinos, trans. Nicholas Constas
> 2. Life of St. Matrona of Perge, trans. Jeffrey Featherstone and Cyril
> Mango
>
> in addition to a few others vitae in the Sourcebook.
>
> Dan Kline
> U of Alaska Anchorage
>