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Since the 1970s social science researchers have documented the cultural devaluation of femininity and its impact on experiences of discrimination among sexual and gender minorities. Yet, despite the continued and accumulating evidence demonstrating the role of anti-femininity (or femmephobia) in these experiences, little research has specifically examined femininity as an intersecting component of...
I have gone through all stages of breast cancer, until recovery. During this long journey, I went from being a patient to a convalescent, without ever stopping being a woman, a mother, a wife. The mastectomy triggered an avalanche of identity questions in me. It tormented my femininity. Who am I now? I have to accept this new body, but how do I dress? How do I feel beautiful again? That is why I created...
In the breeches comedy of the Restoration and early eighteenth century, the cross‐dressed woman's gender transgression and sexual play are happily forgiven, but the femme who desires her comes to signify the deviant nature of women as a whole. Through deploying the traditional anti‐woman triptych of excess femininity – mercenary whore, amoral widow and rebellious wife – the breeches comedy identifies...
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