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Female Cross-Dressing in Chinese Literature Classics and their English Versions [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2014
Cross-dressing, as a cultural practice, suggests gender ambiguity and allows freedom of self expression. Yet, it may also serve to reaffirm ideological stereotypes and the binary distinctions between male and female, masculine and feminine, homosexual ...
Anna Wing Bo Tso
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‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894)

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2022
While the New Woman was often mocked and caricatured as a mannish and destructive figure in the late Victorian press, New Woman writers also used humour to attack the status quo and parry ridicule with ridicule.
Mariam Zarif
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Trogocytosis in Unicellular Eukaryotes

open access: yesCells, 2021
Trogocytosis is a mode of internalization of a part of a live cell by nibbling and is mechanistically distinct from phagocytosis, which implies internalization of a whole cell or a particle.
Kumiko Nakada-Tsukui, Tomoyoshi Nozaki
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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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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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Affective Deception: Experiencing Genderplay in Louisa May Alcott

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2022
The essay attempts to theorize affective responses to a selection of Louisa May Alcott’s texts. Little Men, Moods, “Enigmas ,” and “My Mysterious Mademoiselle” all feature scenes of cross-gender play and revolve around deception due to the play on ...
Ralph J. Poole
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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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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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Camp Transvestism in Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)

open access: yesE-REA, 2019
This essay focuses on the figure of the cross-dresser in Peter Ackroyd’s Neo-Victorian novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, which uses both on and off-stage female-to-male and male-to-female cross-dressing as a backdrop for an investigation into a ...
Justine GONNEAUD
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«Sei troppo effemminato. / Di femmina son nato». Infrazione di codici e fluidità di genere in alcuni libretti d’opera del Seicento veneziano

open access: yesStoria delle Donne, 2021
The fear that man, subjected to practices considered emasculating, could “regress” to the female state was culturally central in the early modern definition of the man-woman polarity.
Alessandro Melis
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