| 单词 | cross-dressing |
| 释义 | > as lemmascross-dressing cross-dressing n. = transvestism n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing clothes associated with opposite sex travestiment1832 cross-dressing1911 transvestitism1912 transvestism1913 Eonism1928 transvesticism1934 1911 E. Carpenter in Amer. Jrnl. Relig. Psychol. & Educ. July 228 Cross-dressing must be taken as a general indication of, and a cognate phenomenon to, homosexuality. 1928 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex VII. 12 But Hirschfeld's conception of the anomaly scarcely appeared to me altogether satisfactory. Transvestism or cross-dressing fails to cover the whole of the ground. 1950 L. S. London & F. S. Caprio Sexual Deviations i. 20 Moll classified various varieties of transvestism as follows:..(2) homosexual cases, in which cross-dressings constituted part of the contrary state; (3) heterosexual cases, where the sexual impulse is normal and in which cross-dressing constitutes part of a contrary sexual state [etc.]. 1971 Daily Tel. 10 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 21/4 Many transexuals are also transvestites, with cross-dressing an essential part of their all-out desire to assume the opposite role. 1985 Times 21 Jan. 8/6 Androgynous clothing is a challenge to fixed concepts of femininity/masculinity, and once that demarcation line was established in Christian society, cross-dressing became subversive. < as lemmas |
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