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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Adopting Cross-Dressing: A Strategy for Coping with Loss for a Bisexual Man
Soshum: Jurnal Sosial dan HumanioraCross-dressing refers to the act of donning garments often associated with the opposite gender. Throughout history, cross-dressing has been extensively recorded and is frequently linked to stereotypes such as deviance, fetishism, exhibitionism, sexual ...
Abidah R. Delu, Budiawan
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The female target: Digitality, psychoanalysis and the gangbang [PDF]
CM. Communication and Media, 2016 The essay culls from classical texts and personal experiences of libertine intimacy with strangers to address age-old academic blind spots regarding group sex as a recurring fantasy and sexual practice.
Semerene Diego
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Synergies of Extracellular Vesicles and Microchimerism in Promoting Immunotolerance During Pregnancy
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 The concept of biological identity has been traditionally a central issue in immunology. The assumption that entities foreign to a specific organism should be rejected by its immune system, while self-entities do not trigger an immune response is ...
José M. Murrieta-Coxca +4 more
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“When the bear won't go hunt”: masculinity in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
E-REA, 2012 In Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, the character of Orsino stands for the male polarity, as opposed to Olivia who represents femininity. His interest in music, perfumes and love thoughts, his narcissism and his refusal to “go hunt,” contribute to ...
Jean-Louis CLARET
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Cross-Dressing as Ambisexual Style: Queer Twists in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
E-REA, 2019 This paper examines cross-dressing in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Reading the novel’s gender topsy-turviness in light of the carnivalesque 1910 Dreadnought Hoax, for which Woolf cross-dressed as an Abyssinian Prince, I explore the seductiveness of queer ...
Adèle CASSIGNEUL
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Cross-dressing women in the cinema of the Russian Empire, 1910-1917
Apparatus. 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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Playground of gender : cross-dressing and self-mutilation as negation of gender identity in Tanja Duckers’s Spielzone (1999) [PDF]
, 2014 Although it is an outstanding example of writing life as negotiation of gender roles as well as exploration of the body as site of identity constructs, Tanja Dückers’s novel Spielzone, published in 1999, has not yet received the critical attention it ...
Dautel, Katrin
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Bacterial Growth Kinetics under a Novel Flexible Methacrylate Dressing Serving as a Drug Delivery Vehicle for Antiseptics [PDF]
, 2013 A flexible methacrylate powder dressing (Altrazeal®) transforms into a wound contour conforming matrix once in contact with wound exudate. We hypothesised that it may also serve as a drug delivery vehicle for antiseptics.
Verena Dosch +16 more
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Chasing Eliza: Shifting and Static Women in Elizabeth Craven's The Miniature Picture
ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2016 Georgian actress and author Mary Robinson famously wore a miniature portrait of her royal lover, the Prince of Wales, whom she captivated in the Shakespearean breaches role of Perdita.
Heather A. Ladd
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