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Conservatives and the Constabulary in Great Britain: cross-dressing conundrums [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Purpose This chapter is devoted to analysing the historical peculiarity of the contemporary British politics of policing. Methodology/approach Research is based on an analysis of policy statements and debates, news reports, and official statistics, in ...
Blyth M.   +19 more
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Travestirsi per Dioniso

open access: yesWhatever, 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
doaj   +1 more source

«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
doaj   +1 more source

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
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
core   +1 more source

Adopting Cross-Dressing: A Strategy for Coping with Loss for a Bisexual Man

open access: yesSoshum: Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora
Cross-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
doaj   +1 more source

Synergies of Extracellular Vesicles and Microchimerism in Promoting Immunotolerance During Pregnancy

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Re-Gendering the Libertine; or, The Taming of the Rake: Lucy Vestris as Don Giovanni on the Early Nineteenth-Century London Stage [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
When Luigi Bassi entered the stage of the Prague National Theatre in 1787 to create the title role of Mozart and Da Ponte's Don Giovanni, he could have drawn inspiration from a rich tradition of theatrical, pantomimic and marionette representations of ...
Appleton   +44 more
core   +1 more source

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