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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"gender fluidity"”.
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Gritty Girls Undone: The Unraveling of Gender Fluidity in Pat Cadigan's Synners
… scholarship: critique of representations of gender fluidity in cyberpunk author Pat Cadigan's novel Synners (1991). The thesis argues that while Cadigan's novel is an important experiment, it lacks consistency in postulating a working gender-fluid society. Drawing upon the work of Judith …
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Women in Wargasm: The Politics of Womenís Liberation in the Weather Underground Organization
… of women as agents of aggression and the gender fluidity they represent. Weatherwomen's acceptance and adoption of masculinity provides an example of gender fluidity in contexts outside of common homosexual, transgendered, or queer representations. Furthermore, varying perceptions of …
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Slaying Hybridity: The “Uncreated” Monstrous Doubles in the The Saga of the Volsungs, Nibelungenlied, and Kudrun
<p>This paper examines anxieties about gender and gender in a thirteenth-century Old Norse text, <em>The Saga of the Volsungs,</em> and two Middle High German texts,<em> </em>the <em>Nibelungenlied</em> and <em>Kudrun.</em> All three exhibit a similar uneasiness about gender performance. In these …
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Trans-masc tits: why not chop them off. Volume 2: the phenomenology of trans-masculine gender flux in performance
This dissertation tackles the lived experience of gender dysphoria and states of gender flux from my perspective as a trans-masculine artist-performer, capturing my journey through an intimate lens of phenomenological practice as research. The work is presented in two volumes, a practice portfolio …
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Exploring the applicability and limitations of international human rights law to the protection of transgender persons: a case study on detention
… of human rights law as it applies to transgender persons. As such limitations are most evident in a strictly sex segregated spaces, the thesis proposes a case study on detention to illustrate potential conflict between the binary models of the sexes, gender fluidity and application of …
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A Distillation of Resilience: Female Masculinity in Form
… valuable category well beyond the borders of the gender binary. In this research, I pay careful attention to the construction of language around gender identities, and the ways in which female masculine identity has been dislodged from the category of trans identity. This research will shed light …
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Mapping the Politics of Vision: searching for a transformative gaze
… are, respectively, the non-human gaze, the gendered gaze, and the dominant gaze. I demonstrate how these works are an attempt to deconstruct the inherent complicity between the gaze and political ideology and, as such, I outline the profile of an artistic practice that understands filmmaking …
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(Re)storying Queer Land Education : pedagogical hub-making of Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans Indigenous educators
… Queer(ing) Land Education disrupts the gender-based essentialisms ubiquitous within environmental and nature educational discourses by attending to non-binary approaches of human and more-than-human worlds and Indigenous gender and sexual diversity within pedagogy, curriculum, and …
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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
… between dream and reality, in revolt against gender norms and what Hélène Cixous would classify as “phallologocentric” ideals of female sexual purity. In both Breath, Eyes, Memory and Annie John, three generations of women are represented to provide an evolutionary perspective that clearly …
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Bellicose Beauties: Villainesses, Gender Transgression, and Martial Drama in Beijing, 1774-1911
… and potentially negotiating the normative gender power in society. The stage combats between the villainess and the hero also epitomized the ongoing and multifaceted social debates, including the rationality of women’s sexual and political desires. Some plays of goddesses and demonesses …