num_pages: 250
description: This interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature. Dugaw demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.
language: English
title: Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850
titlecomplete: Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850
genres: Music, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 16
publisher: University of Chicago Press