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Gendered Guise: Shakespeare’s use of Transvestism and Gender Appropriation in his Plays [PDF]

open access: yesLitinfinite, 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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Transvestism as a symptom: A case series

open access: yesIndian 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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‘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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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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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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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
doaj   +1 more source

Queering the Family: Fantasy and the performance of sexuality and gay relations in French cinema 1995-2000 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper looks in detail at the representation of sexuality in the family in three films of the mid to late 1990s, Balasko’s Gazon maudit, Berliner’s Ma Vie en rose, and Giusti’s Pourquoi pas moi?
Ince, Kate
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MHC class I-dressing is mediated via phosphatidylserine recognition and is enhanced by polyI:C

open access: yesiScience
Summary: 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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Defining Desire: Re(storyng) a 'fraudulent' marriage in 1901 Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In the second half of the 19th century, two Spanish primary school teachers were married despite the fact that their legal status as women rendered this union not only illegal but also publicly scandalous.
De Gabriel, Narciso   +2 more
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The travesty of egoism : same-gender passion and homosocial desire in a Dutch seventeenth-Century morality play [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the seventeenth-century Netherlands, drama and politics were interwoven with one another. This was also the case with the controversial morality play Tieranny van Eigenbaat (Tyranny of Egoism, 1679), which opposed the House of Orange, and especially ...
van der Haven, Kornee, Vergeer, Tim
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