WXDA Record #737
For the Universal Register. On Women.
6 July 1787
Summary
"Should, therefore, custom or fashion ever thus predominate, that Women aspire to masculine habits, and men degenerate into pursuit of feminine accomplishments, who can say but that hereafter we may find the course of Nature inverted; be led to applaud the martial valour of female Generals, and contemplate the patriotic virtue of female Senators?" [This document included in the archive because of implication of male dress via female soldier reference.]
Full Title
6 Jul 1787. For the Universal Register. On Women. Times p. 4 c. B.
Publication
Times of London(Times)
Full Record
- Date
- 6 July 1787
- Provisional Category
- Woman Warrior
- Cross-dressing occupation
- Military
- Primary source topic
- Dressed as a man
- Item format
- Editorial
- Social rank
- Gentry
- Gender Manifestation
- "martial valour'; "patriotic virtue"; "if innovations on the province of the sexes should ever in the least prevail, it must lessen the sweetness of the one, and degrade the hardiness of the other."
- Sex Perceived by Recorder
- Female
- Report Scope
- Peripheral
- Report Size
- Long
- Alternate Names / Titles
- Universal Register. London.
- Column(s)
- B
- Page Numbers
- 4