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- Title
The Chevalière d'Eon, Transgender Autobiography and Identity.
- Authors
Morris, Marilyn
- Abstract
The Chevalier/Chevalière d’Eon lived as a man until age forty-seven and thereafter as a woman until death at age eighty-two in 1810. Recent scholarship has emphasised this soldier-diplomat-spy’s manipulations and duplicity and even questions whether the chevalière should be considered transgender. The Great Historical Epistle by the Chevalière d’Eon, with all its fabrications, however, demonstrates how language and culture shape gender identities. This article compares the chevalière’s self-construction with the picture left by her contemporaries and later, by scholars. Viewed in context of current transgender self-writing, the Epistle offers insights into the nature of truth in autobiography.
- Subjects
EON de Beaumont, Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee d', 1728-1810; TRANSGENDER history; TRANSGENDER people's writings; LGBTQ+ autobiographies; GENDER identity; 18TH century French history; GENDER expression
- Publication
Gender & History, 2019, Vol 31, Issue 1, p78
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12405