The shock to see a person who was born as a male wearing a contoured makeup is still a shock for a great part of today’s society; not as much of a shock to see a person who was born female wearing a pixie cut and dressed in a pantsuit. However at the turn of the 20th century, a person who was born as a female but would dress as a man and even do the job of a man would be considered as threat to the greater society. At the time, woman’s status and power was inseparable from that of her husband’s reputation as well as by her reproductive potential. It was considered taboo see a woman move up the social ladder from a servitute position to an independent status where her rationality could be exposed. Throughout Vern Bullough’s, chapter on “Women
