n. There is, for instance,
no uniform tendency to a masculine distribution of hair. Nor must it be
supposed that the presence of a beard in a woman indicates a homosexual
tendency. "Bearded women," as Hirschfeld remarks, are scarcely ever
inverted, and it would seem that the strongest reversals of secondary
sexual characters less often accompany homosexuality than slighter
modifications of these characters.[167] A faint moustache and other slight
manifestations of hypertrichosis also by no means necessarily indicate
homosexuality. To some extent it is a matter of race; thus in the Pera
district of Constantinople, Weissenberg, among nearly seven hundred women
between about 18 and 50 years of age, noted that 10 per cent, showed hair
on the upper lip; they were most often Armenians, the Greeks coming
next.[168]

There has been some dispute as to whether, apart from
homosexuality, hypertrichosis in a woman can be regarded as an
indication of a general masculinity. This is denied by Max
Bartels (in his elaborate study, "Ueber abnorme Behaarung beim
Menschen," _Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie_, 1876, p. 127; 1881, p.
219) and, as regards insanity, by L. Harris-Liston ("Cases of
Bearded Women," _British Medical Journal_, June 2, 1894). On the
other hand, J.H. Claiborne ("Hypertrichosis in Women," _New York
Medical Journal_, June 13, 1914) believes that hair on the face
and body in a woman is a sign of masculinity; "women with
hypertrichosis possess masculine traits."

There seems to be very little doubt that fully developed "bearded
women" are in most, possibly not all, cases decidedly feminine in
all other respects. A typical instance is furnished by Annie
Jones, the "Esau Lady" of Virginia. She belonged to a large and
entirely normal family, but herself possessed a full beard with
thick whiskers and moustache of an entirely masculine type; she
also showed short, dark hair on arms and hands resembling a man.
Apart from this heterogeny, she was entirely normal and feminine.
At the age of 26, when examined in Berlin, the hair of the head
was very long, the expression of the face entirely feminine, the
voice also feminine, the figure elegant, the hands and feet
entirely of feminine type, the external and internal genitalia
altogether feminine. Annie Jones was married. Max Bartels, who
studied Annie Jones and published her portrait (