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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"female masculinity"”.
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A Distillation of Resilience: Female Masculinity in Form
This thesis reviews the ways in which female masculinity is defined, organized and ignored in dominant discourse. The objective is to demonstrate that female masculinity can be deemed a valuable category well beyond the borders of the gender binary. In this research, I pay careful attention to the …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… opera—performers who also attract mostly female fans. I interpret their performances within a broader framework concerning the colonial history of Hong Kong. By focusing on the performance of female masculinity in traditional Chinese expressive culture, I study how gender authenticity and …
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Exploring discourses of masculinity within women track athletes' lives in South Africa
This research dissertation explores discourses of masculinity among university-level women track athletes across South Africa. Many scholars have delved into the narratives of racialization and masculinity among black women athletes, muscularity as a premise of athleticism, ‘tomboyism' and gender …
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Women's experiences of gender and sexuality within football contexts in England and Wales
… and the analysis considers the possibilities female masculinity offers for a re-materialisation of gender and the sexed body. The contribution this thesis offers is to the field of sports sociology. The research reflects an engagement with feminist epistemology and methodology and the analysis …
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Transgressive matriarchs: an exploration of female agency and resistance in South African telenovelas
… this paper interprets the two Black female protagonists under this study within a political and historical framework. Through close textual analysis, this study examines the narrative construction and characterisation of Lindiwe Dikana from (The River 2018 - 2024) and Harriet Khoza …