First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 247. Original publisher's illustrated boards, lettered red at the spine and front cover. Text in German. Many interesting illustrations and photographs of women dressed as men. Chapter include: Male clothing of the woman outside the theater: women's trousers as costume -- temporary gender change -- sports costume and dance dress -- the Amazon -- cult disguise and carnival -- the ideal of the utopians -- the fight against the role of trousers -- history of the role of trousers The Theater: Literary and Cultural Preconditions -- The Womanless Stage in the Renaissance and Baroque Ages -- First Appearance of the Modern Actress -- Rococo Comedy Subjects and Gender Balancing on the Stage -- Children and Girls on the Stage -- The Androgyne of Romanticism -- The trouser role in Singspiel Posse and Ballet -- The male player in the nineteenth century -- The vocal sound of the opera -- Shape and transformation of the modern woman. Variations on the