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  The girls have caught up to the boys

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  Robert Gehl George Mason University

  March 03, 2010

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  text story begins with this lead: “If you thought only men engage in fist fights, you'd be wrong.” ...
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  “I wanna do a lot of things that don’t make sense”: Intimate Knowledge and Erotic Power

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  Anna Lee Swan University of Washington

  March 24, 2017

  us “to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest ... feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation” (58). In this ...
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  Manic Pixie Dream Girls: The Life and Death of A Toxic Trope

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  AaLeiyah Bell

  March 26, 2021

  Getting rid of the MPDG is only the beginning of overturning toxic tropes regarding women in art, but it ...
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  Over 40, Under Sheets: FX's Gift to Women of a Certain Age is...Anger Management

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  Sonya M. Brown FAU

  May 02, 2014

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  fans are game for anything. The writers knew that in keeping with his now older, wiser (or at least ...
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  Star Trek and the future of male friendship

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  Deanna Smid Brandon University

  January 04, 2017

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  or at least audiences fear that they are so. Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America: A Cultural History, ...
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  Bayonetta, Femme Disturbance, and AAA Queer Desires

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  Amanda Phillips University of California, Davis

  November 13, 2014

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  Bayonetta, Femme Disturbance, and AAA Queer Desires sexuality queer feminist Curator's Note This week, I’m contributing a critical fanvid made as part of my research work on the video game Bayonetta. Originally released in 2009, the title character i ...
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  Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema

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  Sreya Mitra University of Wisconsin, Madison

  April 24, 2008

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  Yaari, men in drag, and gays: tracing the changing dynamics of queer male sexuality in popular Hindi cinema South Asian sexuality queerness Page 3 masculinity Life in a…Metro Bollywood Curator's Note Male homoeroticism in yaari (colloquial Hindi for ...
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  The Queerness of Kalinda Sharma

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  Melanie Kohnen Lewis & Clark College

  October 13, 2011

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  The Queerness of Kalinda Sharma The Good Wife sexuality race and television Curator's Note On The Good Wife, the blurred line between public and private dominates characters' lives, with one exception: Kalinda Sharma, Lockhart Gardner's inv ...