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Cross-dressing women in the cinema of the Russian Empire, 1910-1917

open access: yesApparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, 2023
This article analyses cross-dressed performances by women in films produced in the Russian Empire between 1910 and 1917. It examines around 25 films, both those that are extant and those considered lost, and identifies two major groups: cross-gender ...
Stasya Korotkova
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Quand les hommes se font passer pour des garçonnes : de l’agentivité du travestissement en moga dans le Japon de l’entre-deux-guerres

open access: yesGenre, Sexualité et Société, 2023
The growing interest for gender fluidity in social sciences, and especially in history and anthropology, interrogates the genealogy of gender categories.
Camille Lenoble
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“All this is but forgery”. Gender and Performative Concerns in Fletcher and Massinger’s Love’s Cure (1615)

open access: yesLea, 2023
The instability of the medical definition of human sex and gender in early modern times was such that “male” and “female” became a matter of performance rather than pure biology.
Rachele S. Bassan
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Bir Cross-Dressing Pratiği Olarak Askeri Üniforma Giyerek Poz Kesme: 1930-1940’lar

open access: yesİstanbul Üniversitesi Kadın Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
Gerek kurumsal arşivlerde gerek ise aile koleksiyonlarında yer alan birçok fotoğraf, askeri üniforma giyerek fotoğraf kamerası karşısında cross-dressing performansı gerçekleştiren kadınları gösterir.
Özlem Şimşek
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“So Contrary and Provoking”: Love in Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2022
Although Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869) promotes conventional gender expectations and traditional values, at the same time it depicts heterosexual marriage as mercenary and dispassionate.
Sirpa Salenius
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What Butler Saw: Cross-Dressing and Spectatorship in Seventeenth-Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. What Butler Saw: Cross-Dressing and Spectatorship in Seventeenth-Century France Joseph Harris Introduction For the past fifteen years or so, Judith Butler?s theories have been both contentious ...
Harris, Joseph
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Taming the saint: Hilaria’s case

open access: yesШаги, 2022
The legend of Hilaria belongs to a group of narratives about cross-dressing saints and tells the story of a fictional daughter of the Byzantine emperor Zeno: disguised as a man, she led a life of rigid asceticism among the monks of Scetis. Having emerged
L. L. Ermakova
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Toward “Reciprocal Legitimation” between Shakespeare’s Works and Manga [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In April 2014, Nihon Hoso Kyokai (NHK: Japan Broadcasting Company) aired a short animated film titled “Ophelia, not yet”. Ophelia, in this animation, survives, as she is a backstroke champion.
Yoshihara Yukari, 吉原 ゆかり
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You No Real Man : Constructing Gender, Sexuality, and the Asian American Subject in Jana Monji\u27s Kim [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Jana Monji\u27s short story Kim offers a stunning plot twist that challenges readers initial interpretations of the characters as well as many assumptions and stereotypes about Asian American identity, gender, sexuality, and culture.
Field, Robin E.
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Marion most bold : feminine transgression in the greenwood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In my project, I focus on the role and depiction of women found in the Robin Hood greenwood: specifically, those of Maid Marian. Maid Marian rarely appears in early Robin Hood texts, and especially not in a capacity in which she herself speaks, so it is ...
Harring, Emily Adeline
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