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Gendered Guise: Shakespeare’s use of Transvestism and Gender Appropriation in his Plays [PDF]
Litinfinite, 2021 Often, transvestism or cross-dressing, (that is, wearing normative, gender-designated attire of the opposite sex) is both a leitmotif and a theatrical device in William Shakespeare’s plays.
Sanghita Sanyal
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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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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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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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Transvestism as a symptom: A case series
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2016 Transvestism, commonly termed as cross-dressing, means to dress in the clothing of opposite sex. We describe a series of three cases with transvestism as one of their primary complaints.
M Anupama +3 more
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Storia 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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Camp Transvestism in Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)
E-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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Whatever, 2020 Starting from the definition of “performativity” and “gender parody” developed by Judith Butler, this paper aims to investigate the performative functions of male cross-dressing within the dynamics of social categorization in classical Athens.
Dino Ranieri Scandariato
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MHC class I-dressing is mediated via phosphatidylserine recognition and is enhanced by polyI:C
iScienceSummary: In addition to cross-presentation, cross-dressing plays an important role in the induction of CD8+ T cell immunity. In the process of cross-dressing, conventional dendritic cells (DCs) acquire major histocompatibility complex class I (MHCI) from
Arisa Hori +7 more
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Female Cross-Dressing in Chinese Literature Classics and their English Versions
International 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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