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A female husband is a person born as a woman, living as a man, who marries a woman. The term was known historically from the 17th Century and was popularised by Henry Fielding who titled his 1746 fictionalised account of the trial of Mary Hamilton The Female Husband. Prosecutions involving women living as men and marrying other women were reported in the seventeenth century and eighteenth centuries. In many of these historic instances, the female husband was presented as having deceived the bride and was accused of defrauding her.

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  • A female husband is a person born as a woman, living as a man, who marries a woman. The term was known historically from the 17th Century and was popularised by Henry Fielding who titled his 1746 fictionalised account of the trial of Mary Hamilton The Female Husband. Prosecutions involving women living as men and marrying other women were reported in the seventeenth century and eighteenth centuries. In many of these historic instances, the female husband was presented as having deceived the bride and was accused of defrauding her. (en)
  • « Female husband » est un terme anglais désignant une personne née en tant que femme, mais vivant en tant qu'homme, et qui épouse une autre femme. Le terme est historiquement connu depuis le XVIIe siècle et a été popularisé par Henry Fielding, qui a produit un récit romancé en 1746 du procès de Mary Hamilton intitulé The Female Husband. Des poursuites judiciaires et des procès impliquant des femmes vivant sous une identité masculine et épousant d'autres femmes ont été signalés aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Dans nombre de ces cas historiques, les female husbands sont présentées comme ayant trompé les femmes avec lesquelles elles se sont mariées et ont été accusées de fraude. (fr)
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  • A female husband is a person born as a woman, living as a man, who marries a woman. The term was known historically from the 17th Century and was popularised by Henry Fielding who titled his 1746 fictionalised account of the trial of Mary Hamilton The Female Husband. Prosecutions involving women living as men and marrying other women were reported in the seventeenth century and eighteenth centuries. In many of these historic instances, the female husband was presented as having deceived the bride and was accused of defrauding her. (en)
  • « Female husband » est un terme anglais désignant une personne née en tant que femme, mais vivant en tant qu'homme, et qui épouse une autre femme. Le terme est historiquement connu depuis le XVIIe siècle et a été popularisé par Henry Fielding, qui a produit un récit romancé en 1746 du procès de Mary Hamilton intitulé The Female Husband. (fr)
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  • Female husband (en)
  • Female husband (fr)
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