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Reaching for T in the South African archives

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 257-274, March 2024.
Abstract This article proposes a methodology of reaching in historicity. It does so by tracing the technical object of synthetic testosterone as it has been used by trans people for gender affirming care. To show the usefulness of the method, this article employs it first in relation to mentions of synthetic testosterone in the South African Medical ...
Noah Lubinsky
wiley   +1 more source

Gender identity divergence: drag queens, transvestism, and rransexualism / Inversões do papel de gênero: "drag queens", travestismo e transexualismo

open access: yesPsicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2005
This article discusses some common categories used in the field of Sexology, that are somewhat unclear in terms of definitions. Sexology, while a very recent science, has been built up through the contribution of researchers from many different areas of ...
Fernando Luiz Cardoso
doaj  

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
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Democracy's Fatal Flaw: Anonymity and the Normalization of Offence in John Dunton's Epistolary Periodicals

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 95-109, March 2024.
Abstract Epistolary periodicals associated with English coffee house culture have often been associated with Jürgen Habermas' model for the rise of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. Habermas proposed this ultimately gave rise to the free articulation of public opinion and the emergence of democratic values.
Helen Berry
wiley   +1 more source

“Perversion to match the curtains”? Grayson Perry’s tranny aesthetic

open access: yesE-REA, 2019
Grayson Perry CBE, winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, is one of Britain’s most prominent contemporary multi-media artists and cultural commentators. Married to Philippa and a father to daughter Flo, Perry is also an “out” practising cross-dresser, famed ...
Margaret GILLESPIE
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A Trickster’s Oaths in The \u3cem\u3eHomeric Hymn to Hermes\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Hermes’ maturation into a god of commerce and diplomacy is punctuated by a series of oaths. At first he uses tricky or unsworn oaths in the investigation of his theftof Apollo’s cattle, but eventually he and Apollo exchange oaths that evoke the protocols
Fletcher, Judith
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La política de la transgenericidad: Pierre du Ryer y su adaptación dramática de «Argenis» de John Barclay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
John Barclay’s Argenis (1621) was an immediate smash hit in France, not least because the hero Poliarchus is a Frenchman. Indeed, it is rumored that Argenis was Cardinal Richelieu’s favorite novel, particularly because of the political dimension of this ...
Meere, Michael
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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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Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances

open access: yesMedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 2016
In the wake of the affective turn, emotion and embodiment have emerged as key terms in cultural studies in order to acknowledge the affective dimension of media texts (Gibbs, 2002; Gregg & Seigworth, 2010).
Anja Hirdman
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Representing camp: Constructing macaroni masculinity in eighteenth century visual satire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article asks how ‘Camp,’ as defined in Sontag’s 1964 essay, ‘Notes on Camp,’ might provide a valuable framework for the analysis of late eighteenth-century satirical prints, specifically those featuring images of the so-called ‘macaroni.’ Discussing
Gowrley, Freya
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