著者

新實 五穂

出版者

社団法人日本家政学会

雑誌

日本家政学会誌 (ISSN:09135227)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.54, no.7, pp.545-551, 2003-07-15

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George Sand (1804-76) is recognized as a beauty in male attire as well as a French female romantic novelist. The purpose of this thesis is to find out the reason behind her disguising herself. The methodology used is to pick out and examine the sentences mentioning clothes in her letters collection. There are several different ways in which she uses masculine disguise, and the author focuses on when she uses disguise for political activities as a republican ideologist in 1835. In her masculine disguise, there is a feature that was neither a male imitation nor an expression of female character. Her male attire can be related to her usual, simple female attire which had no affectation and no vanity, and was not intended to flatter. Viewed in this light, we must pay close attention to the connection between her dressing as a man and the thought of liberating women.