In this early woodcut, Jemima Wilkinson, “the Publick Universal Friend,” wears a clerical collar and body-obscuring robe, in keeping with the claim that the former Jemima was now a person without gender. With hair pulled back tight on the head and curled at the neck in a masculine style of the 1790s, was Wilkinson masculinized. Or did the “Universal Friend” truly transcend gender? Rhode Island Historical Society.