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The saint's entire aspect induces dream. Those girlish forms, still slim og hip, that young lass's neck whose flesh is white as the pith of the elders bush, that mouth with lips like prey, that willowy build, those curious fingers lost on (the half of) a weapon, that bulge in the armour swelling in place of the breasts, protecting and emphasising the fall of the torso, that linen glimpsed under the armpit left free between the pauldron and the gorget, even that girlish blue ridband, right under the chin, all absess me. All the disturbing influences of Sodom seem to have been accepted by this androgyne whose subtle Beauty, now suffering, shows itself to be purified, as if transfigured by the slow approach of God.

Joris-Karl Huysmans, Certains, 1889

Bildet omtalt av Huysmans over: Madonna and Child with St. Benedict, St. Quentin and Two Angels, Francesco Marmitta (1500-1505)

Marcel Duchamp som sitt alterego Rrose Sélavy

Fotografert av Man Ray i 1921

Marlene Dietrich arrestert for brudd på forbud mot å gå i bukser som kvinne (1933)

Early, Erotic and Alien: Women Dress as Men in Late Medieval London

essay av Judith M. Bennett og Shannon McSheffrey

"The Androgyne is not limited to any one religion or philosophy. The symbol is universal. The Androgyne is above philosophy. If one has become the Androgyne one no longer has a need for philosophy."

— Marcel Duchamp i samtale med Lanier Graham, 1968. Sitert i: Graham, Marcel Duchamp: Conversations with The Grand Master (New York: Handmade Press, 1968)