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Taming the saint: Hilaria’s case

Шаги, 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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Escaping the Women’s Sphere in Neo-Victorian Fiction [PDF]

Polish Journal of English Studies, 2023
This article looks at two turn-of-the-century neo-Victorian works – Tipping the Velvet (1998) by Sarah Waters and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994) by Peter Ackroyd.
Jana Valová
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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)

Cahiers 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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What Butler Saw: Cross-Dressing and Spectatorship in Seventeenth-Century [PDF]

, 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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Trogocytosis in Unicellular Eukaryotes

Cells, 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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You No Real Man : Constructing Gender, Sexuality, and the Asian American Subject in Jana Monji\u27s Kim [PDF]

, 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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Honouring the wound: war and performance in the lives of Hannah Snell, Deborah Sampson and Pauline Cushman [PDF]

, 2011
This essay investigates three women’s cross-dressed service in the military. Hannah Snell (1723-92) served as a British marine and fought the French in India.
Lock, G
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Toward “Reciprocal Legitimation” between Shakespeare’s Works and Manga [PDF]

, 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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Marion most bold : feminine transgression in the greenwood [PDF]

, 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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Affective Deception: Experiencing Genderplay in Louisa May Alcott

European 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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