http://hdl.handle.net/11089/5724 2026-04-21T00:32:22Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/16948 Book Reviews Stępień, Justyna 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/5987 Female Cross-Dressing in Chinese Literature Classics and their English Versions Wing Bo Tso, Anna Cross-dressing, as a cultural practice, suggests gender ambiguity and allows freedom of self expression. Yet, it may also serve to reaffirm ideological stereotypes and the binary distinctions between male and female, masculine and feminine, homosexual and heterosexual. To explore the nature and function of cross-dressing in Chinese and Western cultures, this paper analyzes the portrayals of cross-dressing heroines in two Chinese stories: 《木木木》 The Ballad of Mulan (500–600 A.D.), and 《梁梁梁梁梁梁台》The Butterfly Lovers (850–880 A.D.). Distorted representations in the English translated texts are also explored. 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/5986 How to Represent Female Identity on the Restoration Stage: Actresses (Self) Fashioning Serrano González, Raquel; Martínez-García, Laura Despite the shifting ideologies of gender of the seventeenth century, the arrival of the first actresses caused deep social anxiety: theatre gave women a voice to air grievances and to contest, through their own bodies, traditional gender roles. This paper studies two of the best-known actresses, Nell Gwyn and Anne Bracegirdle, and the different public personae they created to negotiate their presence in this all—male world. In spite of their differing strategies, both women gained fame and profit in the male—dominated theatrical marketplace, confirming them as the ultimate “gender benders,” who appropriated the male role of family’s supporter and bread-winner. 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/5985 ‘In Drag’: Performativity and Authenticity in Zadie Smith’s NW Pérez Zapata, Beatriz Zadie Smith’s latest novel, NW, presents a multiverse in which multiplicity is driven into homogeneization by the forces of those dominant discourses that attempt to suppress the category of the “Other.” This paper focuses on the development of the two female protagonists. Their opposing attitudes towards motherhood, together with their confrontation with their origins, bring to the fore the performativity found in the discourses of gender, sexuality, class, and race. Thus, this paper will explore authenticity and performativity in a contemporary context, where patriarchal and neocolonial discourses still apply. 2014-11-01T00:00:00Z