'The Birdcage' As A Study in Gender Issues
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A 25 page research paper on the movie the Birdcage and its view of homosexual males and their gender roles in cinema and real life. The writer details the basic plot, each of the characters, and how they mesh with real life issues. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: Birdcage.wps

“A queer reading of ‘Never the Sinner’”
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A paper which contrasts traditional and queer readings of literary texts, and looks at John Logan’s ‘Never the Sinner’ from the perspective of the latter, in terms of the way in which the characters are presented and Logan’s interpretation of their motivations.
Filename: JLqueerread.wps

“Drag” Performance in the American Theater
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This 15 page report discusses the history and impact of drag performances on the American theater. One of the reasons that drag performance, whether in a drag queen show or in the “legitimate” theater, titillates, amuses, and shocks people is that it plays with gender’s most honored and traditional beliefs and celebrates the confusion of social and sexual identities. Drag is definitely not found only in the homosexual community, but also in other worlds of cross-dressing: straight men dressing in drag for personal thrills and people in the performing arts donning drag as part of a show. In the a dramatic performance, cross-dressing establishes a realm that differs from daily preconceptions of life -- just as drama itself does. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: BWdrag.wps

“Gay sub-culture and Disability sub-culture”
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An eleven page paper on the similarities and differences between two cultural minorities, the way in which they are perceived by the majority culture, and how they attempt to address discrimination and prejudice on both an individual and a group level. Bibliography lists 11 sources
Filename: JLgaydissubcultures.wps

“Ladies behind bars”
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A five page paper which looks at John Coggeshall’s article, ‘Ladies Behind Bars’ and the way in which he sees the construction of gender roles in male prisons as reflecting and exemplifying the delineation of male and female roles in the outside world. Bibliography lists 5 sources
Filename: JLLadies.rtf