
Greta LaFleur (ed.)
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Published online:
19 May 2022
Published in print:
15 November 2021
Online ISBN:
9781501759529
Print ISBN:
9781501759086
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The Byzantine Theater and Satire The Byzantine Theater and Satire
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The Early Church and Transmisogyny The Early Church and Transmisogyny
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Dio Cassius’s Elagabalus Dio Cassius’s Elagabalus
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Byzantine Eunuchs and Femininity Byzantine Eunuchs and Femininity
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Michael Psellus and Nonbinary Gender Identity Michael Psellus and Nonbinary Gender Identity
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
12 Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium?
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Pages
297–321
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Published:November 2021
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Betancourt, Roland, 'Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium?', in Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Kłosowska (eds), Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern (Ithaca, NY , 2021; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online, 19 May 2022), https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501759086.003.0013, accessed 4 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter looks into the lives of trans women in Byzantium. In this era, women and femininity were almost always seen as the lesser, imperfect sex, thus becoming a woman gave no social or spiritual gain. Narratives of men assigned females at birth and female masculinity show how the status is used to avoid persecution. The chapter mentions how the understanding could be faulty due to poor translation of works from the Byzantine Empire. It notes theatre as a key site of manifesting bodies that unsettle gender identity. Additionally, the chapter expounds on the concept of grooming and beautification of men.
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