gender studies

sociology

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approaches to Shakespeare criticism

  • William Shakespeare
    In William Shakespeare: Feminist criticism and gender studies

    Gender studies such as those of Bruce R. Smith and Valerie Traub also dealt importantly with issues of gender as a social construction and with changing social attitudes toward “deviant” sexual behaviour: cross-dressing, same-sex relationships, and bisexuality.

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Bechdel test

  • Cartoonist Alison Bechdel in Chicago, 2012
    In Bechdel test

    evaluate the presence and dimensionality of women in fictional media such as films and television.

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