The art worlds of gender performance: cosplay, embodiment, and the collective accomplishment of gender
Abstract In recent years, cosplay has gained global visibility as a performing art in which fans dress up as fictional characters from anime, comics/manga, or games. Although scholars contend that cosplay exemplifies gender performativity and may even offer a new heuristic for understanding social i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-07-01
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| Series: | The Journal of Chinese Sociology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-022-00168-z |