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Many scholars have studied French Interwar photographer Claude Cahun’s use of mirrors in their self-portraits. However, scholarship of these photographs remains largely in discursive isolation. Indeed, scholars have yet to connect these artworks to the rest of Cahun’s oeuvre, as…

Morphing allows for the creation of new identities to replace old ones that are no longer effective. It allows us to see that identity is not, and should not, be viewed as a fixed entity, rather it is an ever-changing recreation of the self. In other words, we are not born as ge…

Most contemporary scholarship affirms that the Christian and Islamic medieval political imperative was about the preservation of order and stability. We considered this characterization insufficient, given the treatment of the concept of religious and political justice by mediev…