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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Cross-dressing"”.
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Sexual Difference as Narrative Technique: Cross-Dressing, Redressing, and Undressing Female Protagonists
Throughout the twentieth century gender study has been a site of considerable social debate, stress, and change. The social forces which have destabilized gender identities are by now widely acknowledged--ranging from early twentieth century American and English feminist movements struggling for …
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Female cross-dressing and fragile masculinity in Le Roman de Silence and Twelfth Night
… literature by analyzing the impact of female-crossing dressing on male characters in Heldris of Cornwall’s Le Roman de Silence and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In the 13th century French Romance that centers on the debate between nature and nurture, Silence is a female raised as a male …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
This is an ethnographic study of women’s cross-dressing performance in Cantonese opera (yueju) productions in Hong Kong since the 1950s. Stemming from ethnographic research conducted from 2012 to 2016, my study concerns issues of women’s history, fandom, and social identity (gender, cultural, and …
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Which Side Are You on? : Prosthetic Vaginas, Cross-dressing Madonnas, and Queer Theology in Virgin of the Flames and Narcopolis
<p>Chris Abani describes a scene where his main character Black and Sweet Girl, a transsexual dancer, have intercourse for the first time. Black hesitates as he begins to penetrate her anally because, “he couldn’t become her this way. He knew this thing, this intimacy he craved wasn’t about love, …
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Neo-onnagata: professional cross-dressed actors and their roles on the contemporary Japanese stage
Neo-Onnagata: Professional Cross-dressed Actors and Their Roles on the Contemporary Japanese Stage explores the representation of male and female gender in the contemporary Japanese theatre. I particularly discuss a specialized subset of Japanese actor: the neo-onnagata, a contemporary theatre …
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Gender Ambiguity in Early Modern English and French Art, 1530-1630
… early modern images of androgynous figures, cross-dressing, and gender transformation. By exploring, rather than resolving, their ambiguity, this thesis aims to shed new light on objects whose challenging effects have often led them to be oversimplified or set aside. The first chapter places …
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Självets garderobiär : Självreflexiva genuslekar och queer socialpsykologi
… Being empirically grounded in an analysis of cross-dressers’ self-presentations, questions are asked concerning hegemonic obligatory sexuality or the heterosexual matrix, cultural intelligibility and the importance of the dressed body in the materialization of the gendered subject. Broadening …
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Sarah Kane's Post-Christian Spirituality in Cleansed
… and images of impalement, dismemberment, and cross-dressing in her third play, <em>Cleansed </em>as a vehicle to examine and validate her notions of gender and sexuality as well as her developing post-Christian spirituality. Through the critical textual analysis of <em>Cleansed </em>in …
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"""Fair Montague"" or ""Ill-beseeming beast"": Breeches performance on the American stage, 1800-1869"
… generated a vast amount of recent material on cross-dressing. Yet, despite cross-dressing's present favor within academia, a paucity of historical analysis exists regarding perhaps the most celebrated of all theatrical transvestites: the nineteenth-century American breeches actress. Established …
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On a Quest for Manhood: Re-Imagining Medieval Masculinities and Male Maturation in Contemporary Arthurian Adaptations for Adolescents
… 4 examines an adaptation that presents two cross-dressing characters, depicts masculinity as performance, and complicates essentialist and binarist views on gender. My analysis demonstrates the ways protagonists move between ‘closed’ and ‘open’ masculinities, explores the notion of …
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Living with a transvestite : A phenomenological study of wives and committed partners of transvestites
… comic drag has dominated public recognition of cross-dressing. Hence transvestites are perceived to be freakish or funny. Transvestites often marry, or form a committed heterosexual relationship without telling their partner of their cross-dressing. Because the public largely ignores the …
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Behind the Stakes, Between the Lines, Beyond the Pun: A Critical Deconstruction of Humor in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Other Popular Comedies
… departure from form, timing, metatheatrics, and cross-dressing. William Shakespeare’s <em>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</em> (ca. 1595) serves as a key text, but films and television series including <em>Star Wars</em> (20th Century Fox, 1977, 1983), <em>Young Frankenstein</em> (20th Century Fox, …
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Displacing Desires in Early Modern Drama
… mad lovers. The third chapter argues that the cross-dressing women in the Hic Mulier pamphlet and Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl exemplify the Lacanian signifying operation of totalization and exception, of ""all"" and ""not-all,"" which at once establishes sexual difference and …
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Unbinding Piratical Themes: Treasure Island, The Unbinding of Mary Reade, and Piratical History
… appeal to this audience, positions a historical, cross-dressing female pirate figure as her main character, which not only mimics the classic themes that Silver popularized but also works to provide queer representation and a tale of gender transgression. Themes of freedom and ambiguity prevail …
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Hemingway and the textual struggle of paternity
… and a tumultuous relationship with his youngest, cross-dressing son Gregory, Hemingway makes fatherhood remarkably present in several texts that span the decades of his career. He was known to his friends and even the public at large as "Papa," but this identity is constantly muddled and strained …
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"""Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"": The Citizen-Soldier and the Construction of Identity in Northern Civil War Literature"
… culture of the army functioned as a kind of cross-dressing among previously separated cultural groups reminiscent of blackface minstrelsy as described by Eric Lott. In the desire to recover a sense of autonomy, soldier-authors reconceived minorities, particularly African-Americans, women, and …
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Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936
… by a predilection toward masculinity and cross-dressing. Previous scholarship has argued that sexological texts were immensely influential in shaping popular understandings of gender and sexual normativity, and that the mass circulation press had embraced the sexological figure of the …
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Cuckolds And Codpieces: Early Modern Anxieties In Male Potency
… such as transgressive phenomena, specifically cross-dressing, and, performative aspects of gender construction.</p> <p>My aim is to illuminate some of the most provocative tensions and possibilities in the study of early modern desire. Tracing as I have an evolution of thought, demonstrates …
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Willa Cather: Male Roles and Self-Definition in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and "Neighbor Rosicky"
… called herself “William Cather, M.D." Cather's cross-dressing reveals her unconventional core and her desire to define herself regardless of societal expectations. Cather also had many close relationships with woman, and these close relationships have led many scholars to label her a lesbian. …
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