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  Real Men Wear Heels

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  Madison Moore Yale University

  February 23, 2010

  adopt a style is also to carve a space for yourself outside of the status quo. But I also think that ... it's about what's next, what's coming. Possibility, in other words. Rad shows that it’s ... possible for men to wear heels, and not only that it's possible, but it should in fact be ...
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  Nathan for You and Cable's Contested Masculinities

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  Nick Marx Colorado State University

  August 21, 2014

  masculinities made possible by contemporary cable’s hyper-competitive targeting of young male audiences. This ... Hispanic, and “old” panelists, demographics nominally outside of Comedy Central’s targeted audience, but ...
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  Crossplay vs Genderbend: How cosplayers play with gender

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  SarahAadahl George Mason University

  September 13, 2018

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  a different gender; to present themselves as the gender of the character as seamlessly as possible. The ...
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  From Lovebot to War Bride: Race, Family and Citizenship in Battlestar Galactica

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  LeiLani Nishime Sonoma State University

  May 02, 2008

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  seen as racialized anger (“You hate me for what I am. You hate me for where I’m from.”) What, too, are ...
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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

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  gender focus, but I’m willing to bet it’s not an accidental one.) ...
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  Can Catwoman Challenge Patriarchy?

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  Michael Lecker George Mason University

  September 28, 2007

  Batman driven narrative? What ideologies is Selina questioning with such quotes as “Tell me I’m not in ...
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  Wild Thing: HDTV and the Demasculinized Male Viewer

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  Marusya Bociurkiw Ryerson University, Toronto

  October 09, 2009

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  demasculinization I’m noticing in HDTV ads? Many of the ads I’ve been looking at seem to crystallize what Jeanne ...
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  Why I Love the Lady-Lady, Mrs. J.B. Fletcher

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  Elizabeth Wuerffel Valparaiso University

  March 06, 2016

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  Curator's Note I’ll admit. I’m biased. Our TV time was limited to one hour/day, and I spent my middle and ...
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  Gendered Horror, Sexual Assault, and Revenge (2017)

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  Geneveive Newman University of Pittsburgh

  October 29, 2019

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  the Soska Sisters’ American Mary and more recently Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge? I’m not here to argue ...
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  “Where Does a Girl Have to Go to Find a Pool Table: Gender Performance, Leisure, and The L Word in Second Life”

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  Kelly Kessler DePaul University

  April 22, 2008

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  a butch to do? I’m not wholly sure what to make of this. This fantasy meeting place seems to be solely ...

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