Androgyny
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androgyny and androgynous - Having both male and female characteristics or qualities. The use of androgynous figures in mythology is widespread.
One is the Renaissance fascination with androgyny - the singer is not much older than Shakespeare's Rosalind, who renamed herself Ganymede, and Viola, who renamed herself Cesario - and another is the Italian fashion for castrati.
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