Barbara Adriaens
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title:
Barbara Adriaens
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Barbara Adriaens, alias Willem Adriaens, was a Dutch soldier. Her case belongs to the most known and well documented legal cases of female transvestism and homosexuality during the early modern age in the Netherlands. Adriaens was at the age of thirteen placed in a house of correction for public drunkenness. After she was released, she tried to support herself as a domestic and a seamstress. In 1627 or 1628, she adopted male clothing and presented as male under the name Willem Adriaens. As such,
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Dutch soldier
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Adriaens
date created:
2014-09-07T17:48:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T18:43:10Z
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