This provides several implications regarding conventional views on gender and male dominance over women, mainly in response to women wearing men's clothing. ... Similar verbal references are made to the setting of the woods and also of the magical flower – the "little western flower," to be found "where the bolt of Cupid fell." ... Howard, women often dressed as men in the period (and were accused of prostitution). Because of this cross-dressing by women, it seemed then that "gender difference and hierarchy had to be produced and secure [] on other grounds. [] They could still ...

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