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

E-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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Camp Transvestism in Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)

E-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

MedieKultur: 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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Gender dysphoria: Transsexualism and identity [PDF]

, 1993
This thesis explores an extreme form of gender dysphoria: that experienced by transsexuals. The thesis focuses especially on issues concerning identity.
Dixon, Stephen Michael
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Gender identity divergence: drag queens, transvestism, and rransexualism / Inversões do papel de gênero: "drag queens", travestismo e transexualismo

Psicologia: 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
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Gender identity as a human right. Analysis of the transit of a concept in the speeches of the State of the City of Buenos Aires (period 2003-2010)

Punto Género, 2013
This paper analyzes how the State regulates bodies that challenge binary gender rules. Since 2003, several regulations regarding the respect for trans gender identities emerged as part of a broader ‘Human Rights’ ideology in Argentina.
Anahí Farji Neer
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TRANSSEXUALISM – AN INVESTIGATION

Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2004
Transsexualism (also referred to as transsexuality) is a phenomenon that is not always well understood in society. From the time that this term was first used it has often been confused with sexual deviations such as homosexuality, bisexuality ...
C.J. Kotzé, C.W. Labuschagné
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,Passing Women' im Sprechzimmer von Magnus Hirschfeld

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 1998
In 1910, Magnus Hirschfeld divided the concept of 'sexual inversion' into homosexuality and 'transvestism'. He included only one wornan in his transvestite case histories. The article is based on the cases of four women whom Hirschfeld knew while writing
Geertje Mak
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Hacia una des-categorización de la ‘identidad hispanoamericana’: estrategias queer en Roberto Bolaño y Pedro Lemebel

Altre Modernità, 2017
The presence of queer motifs in contemporary Latin American literature is getting more and more relevant nowadays, generating a rich and complex corpus of texts where the thematic obsession with the opaque, incongruous, mischievous body overtly exceeds ...
Gabriele Bizzarri
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Historicist and Presentist Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2019
Historicism and Presentism are two recent, mostly discussed phenomena in the ethos of Shakespearean studies. While historicists like Stephen Greenblatt argues that historicism pursues historical aspects to explain a text and keeps away presentday ...
Sharif Mohammad Shahidullah
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