Adventurous identities: intersex soldiers and cross-dressing women at war
- Written by Olivia Murphy, Postdoctoral research fellow in English, University of Sydney
A copy of an engraving of Count Casimir Pulaski published in 1871.Wikimedia Commons
A documentary from the Smithsonian Institute, examining new DNA and physical anthropology evidence, suggests the famous cavalry officer Casimir Pulaski (1745-1779) might have been a woman, or intersex.
Pulaski is a hero of the struggles for Polish and American...
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