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Queering Socialist Realism: Serhii Parajanov’s Early Ukrainian Films and his Transition to Poetic Cinema

Наукові записки Наукма: Історія і теорія культури
The article argues that Serhii Parajanov’s lesser-known early Ukrainian films, created within the constraints of socialist realism, subtly challenged Soviet normativity, including heteronormativity.
Olga Briukhovetska
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Contemporary Fashion Imaginary. Deconstructing Gender

ZoneModa Journal, 2020
Argued by Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction is a critical practice of reading and rewriting meanings: it aims to the decomposition of linguistic systems, by unveiling the function of oppositional categories.
Nicole Di Sandro
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Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat

Open Cultural Studies, 2021
The Frères Cogniard produced immensely popular vaudeville féeries in the nineteenth century and among them most popular was The White Cat (1852), which grafts two tales together by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy: “The White Cat” and “Belle-Belle, or the ...
Duggan Anne E.
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“Who the Hell Are You?”

Acta Neophilologica, 2023
Tom Stoppard is an outstanding playwright, embellishing his plays with scientific and philosophical approaches and presenting complicated, mysterious plots to the reader.
Nilay Erdem Ayyıldız
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‘Ardhanareeshwara’ – The Lord Who is Half Woman: Breaking the Gender Binary through Indian Philosophy and Contemporary Gender Studies

Gender Studies
Ardhanareeshwara, the composite form of Shiva and Parvati, embodies the inseparability of masculine and feminine principles, challenging fixed gender binaries.
Nair Brinda
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Gendered and Ethnic Captivity and Slavery in Safavid Persia: A Literature Review

Social Sciences, 2021
The Safavid society’s approach to sexuality and gender has made it a reference for the “pre-modern” discourse, in which gender and sexuality manifest—in contemporary terminology—queerness and fluidity.
Ladan Rahbari
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A Critical Analysis of the Concept of Sex and ‎Gender in Judith Butler’s View [PDF]

اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی
This article aims to clarify the meaning of sex and gender and to extract their characteristics in Butler’s thought, critically examining these concepts as the most fundamental theoretical constructs in the field of gender studies.
Sara Chavoshi, Shamsollah Mraiji, Mahdi Soltani   +2 more
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Gender as Spatial Identity Gender strategizing in postcolonial and neocolonial Hong Kong

Cubic Journal, 2019
A photo essay exploring the how gender identity is deliberately constructed through social positioning within the urban landscape of Hong Kong. Hong Kong has always had a binary identity, which continues through from the postcolonial to the neocolonial ...
Leon Buker, Gerhard Bruyns
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“Everything Queer, Nothing Radical?”

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2017
Many theologians have recently argued that Christianity is inherently queer, in part on the basis of traditions of gender fluidity in Christianity.
Linn Marie Tonstad
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Beyond boundaries: Navigating fluidity, power dynamics, and erasure in contemporary lesbian identities

e-cadernos ces
This paper explores the evolving concepts of ‘woman’ and ‘lesbian’ in contemporary discourse, emphasizing fluidity influenced by spatial, temporal, and power dynamics.
Eduarda Ferreira
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