Resource List

Books/Chapters


Butler, Judith. “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.” Oxfordshire:

Routledge, 1990.

 

Halberstam, Jack. “Female Masculinities.” Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998.

 

Howard, Jean E. “Cross-Dressing, The Theater, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England.” In Crossing the Stage, edited by Lesley Ferris. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 1993.

 

Krimmer, Elisabeth. “In the Company of Men: Cross-Dressed Women Around 1800.’ Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004.

 

Peritz, Jessica Gabriel. “The Lyric Myth of Voice: Civilizing Song in Enlightenment Italy.”

University of California Press, 2022.

 

Punchard, Phillipa. “Others: Portraits of Transgender, Non-binary and Cross-dressing Icons in

History.” Phillipa Punchard, 2019.

 

Senelick, Laurence. “Boys and Girls Together: Subculture Origins of Glamour Drag and Male Impersonation on the Nineteenth Century Stage.” In Crossing the Stage, edited by Lesley Ferris. Routledge, 1993.

Thesis/Dissertation


King, Thomas Allen. “The Hermaphrodite's Occupation: Theatricality and Queerness in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century London.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1993. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.


Publications


Cowgill, Rachel. “Re-Gendering the Libertine; Or, the Taming of the Rake: Lucy Vestris as Don

Giovanni on the Early Nineteenth-Century London Stage.” Cambridge Opera Journal 10,

no.1 (1998). http://www.jstor.org/stable/823725.

Accessed November 2022.


Friedman-Romell, Beth H. “Breaking the Code: Toward a Reception Theory of Theatrical

Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century London.” Theatre Journal 47, no. 4 (1995).

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3208987?origin=crossref.

Accessed December 2022.


Heckman-McKenna, Heather. “Redefining the Ballad: Gender Role Reversals in Nineteenth C entury Broadside Ballads.” Downloaded through Academia.edu August 2023.


Hov, Live. “The ‘Women” of the Roman Stage: As Goethe Saw Them.” Theatre History

Studies. The University of Alabama Press, 2001.

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=anon~f03da6ab&id=GALE|A75608378&v=2.1

&it=r&sid=googleScholar&asid=74e0f997.

Accessed February 2023.

 

King, Alec Hyatt. “The Quest for Sterland - 3. Don Giovanni in London before 1817.” The

Musical Times 127, no. 1722 (1986). https://www.jstor.org/stable/964591?origin=crossref.

Accessed December 2022.


Kootin, Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe. “Lessons in Blackbody Minstrelsy: Old Plantation and the

Manufacture of Black Authenticity.” The Drama Review, Routes of Blackface: Special

Summer Issue 57, no. 2, 2013. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24584796.

Accessed January 2024.


Landis, J.. “The Allure of Joy and Female Criminals in Early Modern English City Comedy.’

Jems 10, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-12548.

Accessed October 2023.


Mowry, Melissa M. "Thieves, Bawds, and Counterrevolutionary Fantasies: The Life and Death of

Mrs. Mary Frith." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 5, no.1, 2005.

https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2005.0008.

Accessed December 2023.


Rustici, Craig.“The Smoking Girl: Tobacco and the Representation of Mary Frith.” Studies in

Philology 96, no. 2, 1999. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4174636.

Accessed December 2022.


Theatrical Review. The Morning Post (London, England). Thursday, June 11, 1829.

19th Century British Newspapers: Part II. Bishopsgate Institute Collection.

Accessed October 2023.


Theatrical Review. The Political Examiner (London, England), Sunday, December 16, 1821.

19th Century British Newspapers: Part II. Bishopsgate Institute Collection.

Accessed October 2023.


White, Edward. “Roaring Girl: London’s Sharp-Elbowed, Loudmouthed Mary Frith.” The Paris Review, September 8, 2017. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/09/08/mary-frith-a-diamond-in-dog-shit/

Accessed November 2023.


 

Web


Allen, Paige“What is Judith Butler’s Theory of Gender Performativity?” https://www.perlego.com/knowledge/study-guides/what-is-judith-butlers-theory-of-gender-performativity/.

Accessed August 2023. 


Armstrong, Catherine. “LGBT History Month: Forgotten Figures Who Challenged Gender Expression and Identity Centuries Ago.” Pink News, February 7, 2023. 

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/07/lgbt-history-month-gender-expression-figures/

Accessed February 2023.

 

Butler, Judith. “Performativity, Precarity And Sexual Politics.” AIBR : Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana. 2009. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26851760_Performativity_Precarity_And_Sexual_Politics

Accessed August 2023


Durn, Sarah. "The Weekly Cross-Dressing Balls of 18th-Century Russian Royalty: How Empresses Used 'Metamorphosis' to Show Their Male Courtiers Who’s the Boss." October 4, 2021.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cross-dressing-russian-metamorphosis-balls.

Accessed August 2023.

 

Dickson, Andrew. “An Introduction to 18th-century British theatre.” British Library. https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/18th-century-british-theatre.

Accessed November 2022.

 

Dykstra, Jack. “The Many Faces of the Enlightened Man.” History Today, June 25, 2020. https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/many-faces- enlightened-man#:~:text=In%20the

%2017th%20century%20it,effeminate%20man%20who%20emulated%20women

Accessed November 2022.

 

English Broadside Ballad Archive. https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/33541/bia.

Accessed March 2023.


Fearn, E.. "Moll Cutpurse." Encyclopedia Britannica, July 22, 2023.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moll-Cutpurse.

Accessed March 2023.


Figes, Lydia. “The Gender Fluidity of the Chevalier d'Éon.” ArtUK, February 23, 2021. https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-gender-fluidity-of-the-chevalier-don

Accessed June 2023.

 

Ganzl, Kurt. “Blackface and Crossdressing: The Great Minstrel ‘Prima Donnas’.” Operetta Research Center, October 17, 2022. http://operetta-research-center.org/blackface-crossdressing-great-minstrel-prima-donne/.

Accessed March 2023.

 

Historic England. “Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Histories.”

https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/lgbtq-heritage-project/trans-and-gender-nonconforming-histories/.

Accessed August 2023.


https://holdenmadagame.com/

Accessed May 2024.


Jones, Heather Rose. "LHMP #213 Ungerer 2000 Mary Frith, Alias Moll Cutpurse, in Life and Literature." Review f Mary Frith, Alias Moll Cutpurse, in Life and Literature, by Gustav Ungerer, in Shakespeare Studies, 28:42-84. https://www.alpennia.com/lhmp/lhmp-213-ungerer-2000-mary-frith-alias-moll-cutpurse-life-and-literature.

Accessed December 2023.


Kent, Daria. “Redefining the Dandy: The Asexual Man of Fashion.” Making Queer History.com. https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/2018/4/7/redefining-the-dandy-the-asexual-man-of-fashion.

Accessed October 2022.


Library of Congress. “Minstrel Songs." https://www.loc.gov/collections/songs-of-america/articles-and-essays/musical-styles/popular-songs-of-the-day/minstrel-songs/.

Accessed March 2023.


https://www.lucialucas.com/

Accessed May 2024.


Medhurst, Eleanor. “Cross-dressing Dykes, An Eighteenth Century Spectacle.” Cross-Dressing Dykes, September 10, 2021. https://dressingdykes.com/2021/09/10/cross-dressing-dykes-an-eighteenth-century-spectacle/.

Accessed November 2022.


Rodriguez McRobbie, Linda. “The Incredible Chevalier d’Eon, Who Left France as a Male Spy and Returned as a Christian Woman.” Atlas Obscura, July 26, 2019.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-incredible-chevalier-deon-who-left-france-as-a-mal

e-spy-and-returned-as-a-christian-woman.

Accessed November 2023.


Rolle, Elisa. “Eugene d’Ameli.” Queer Places. http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/ch-d-e/Eugene%20D'Ameli.html.

Accessed January 2024.


Shaw, Patricia. “Mad Moll and Merry Meg: The Roaring Girl as Popular Heroine in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writings.” University of Oviedo, 1996. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/1979860.

Accessed November 2022.


Sherry, Jim. “Assaut d'Armes.” https://www.james-gillray.org/pop/assaut.html.

Accessed December 2023.


Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. “Blackface: The Birth of An American Stereotype.”

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/blackface-birth-american-stereotype.

Accessed December 2023.


https://www.teiyakasahara.com/

Accessed May 2024.


Thom, Danielle. “18th century Queer Cultures #1: the Macaroni and His Ancestors.” March 4, 2023. https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/18th-century-queer-cultures-1-the-macaroni-and-his-ancestors.

Accessed September 2023.


Thompson, Brian C.. “The Critic, the Public and the ‘Femme’ Fatale.” Oxford University 19th Biennial International Nineteenth-Century Music Conference. July 11-13, 2016. https://www.academia.edu/24139246/_The_Critic_the_Public_and_the_Femme_Fatale_.

Accessed February 2024.


Thornton, Elaine. “The Macaroni Craze.” Historic UK: The History and Heritage Accommodation Guide. https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Macaroni-Fashion-Craze/.

Accessed February 2023.


Tyranny, Gene. “Tancrede.” AllMusic. https://www.allmusic.com/composition/tancr%25C3%25A8de-opera-mc0002382089.

Accessed August 2023.


Westby, Alan. “Julie d'Aubigny: La Maupin and Early French Opera.” Los Angeles Public Library Blog. June 28, 2017. https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/julie-daubigny-la-maupin-and-early-french-opera. 

Accessed Juy 2023.


Audiovisual Content

 

1970: WENDY CARLOS and her MOOG SYNTHESISER | Music Now | Retro Tech | BBC Archive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsW2EDGbDqg. Accessed May 2024.


Les Delices. Salon Era Episode 3.4, “No Straight Answers.” Produced by Debra Nagy, January 17, 2023. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=471389111850680.

Accessed January 2023.


Lucia Lucas Falstaffhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdiCWlU5lc. Accessed May 2024.

 

National Portrait Gallery (London). “Mary Frith (‘Moll Cutpurse’).https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp70624/mary-frith-moll-cutpurse?search=sas&sText=mary+cutpurse&OConly=true.

Accessed February 2023.


Symphonic Pride, Rodney Sharman's The Pronoun Symphonyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S_Z3Dtweok. Accessed May 2024.


Would You Gain the Tender Creaturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6G1_yxaknE. Accessed May 2024.