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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Transvestism."”.
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Living with a transvestite : A phenomenological study of wives and committed partners of transvestites
… such as dress, mannerisms and relationships. Transvestism, or the practice of wearing the clothes of the other gender, challenges societal values and guidelines for behaviour. The attitude of society to this practice has varied from veneration to vilification depending on the period of history …
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De Cortés al Mago de Oz: Estrategias posmodernas en el teatro latinoamericano: 1980-1992
… genres, anachronism, ahistoricity, metafiction, transvestism and parody are used by the playwrights to question the traditional beliefs of history, genre, gender and art. By exploring these strategies, I demonstrate how the plays dismantle not only the traditions and conventions already …
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A Character Study of Two Trouser Roles For Mezzo-Soprano In Opera: "Cherubino" From W. A. Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro and "Octavian" From R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
… - the problem of performing a character through transvestism.</p><p>This thesis is a study of two popular trouser roles for mezzo-soprano. It addresses the general history of trouser roles and the specific characters of "Cherubino" from W. A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and "Octavian" from R. …
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Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century
… Health, as well as from understandings of transvestism, transsexualism, and transgenderism from Virginia Prince and Leslie Feinberg. This thesis looks at ideas of autonomy, phenomenology and affect, what constitutes a counterpublic, and what digital embodiment means for gender identity and …
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Rites of conflict among North American Indians
… everyday norms in ritual clowning or jesting, transvestism, scatology, and defiance of pain. At times, many or all of these expressions of conflict were included in a single extended ceremony. These ceremonies blended the sacred and profane, the serious and humorous. There was procession, …
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Backdoors and Trapdoors: The Trappings of Homo/Transsexuality in Artists’ Film, Video and Photography, c.1989-1999
… Trial* [1993], I pursue a reading of 1990s queer transvestism as a trans epistemology of the ‘egg,’ which cracks into an archive of trans materialism found in the DIY aesthetics of Jason Barker and Hans Scheirl’s experimental short *Summer of 95* [1995]. In chapter four: I argue that Hans …
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Självets garderobiär : Självreflexiva genuslekar och queer socialpsykologi
In her widely quoted and criticised Gender Trouble, Judith Butler elaborates the idea that gender needs to be understood as performative – a certain kind of “doing” within the regulative realm of a hegemonic heterosexuality that is assumed to govern intelligible bodily configurations. Drawing …