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My thesis offers a theoretically engaged ethnographic examination of the female to male (dansō) escorts phenomenon in contemporary Japanese society. Dansō is a Japanese word that means "male dress" and it is commonly used to describe a girl or a woman who crossdresses. Since 200…

This study is an analysis of contemporary Turkish performance, framed within the theory of the work of sacrifice, which examines the concepts of gender performativity, modernity and Islam. The idea of sacrifice is primarily used as a lens to critically explore issues of religion…

This dissertation calls for expanding the scholarship on gender and the Internet to include weblogs and utilizes examples from women's weblogs from Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan to understand the role the Internet plays in these women's representations of their everyday lives. Web…