Professional wrestling and identity construction in the realm of social media by Stanul Grozev

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The Oral Poetics of Professional Wrestling, or Laying the Smackdown on Homer by William Duffy

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“Fight me if you are a man!” : an ethnographic investigation of gender performativity in professional wrestling by Goh, Kian Yong

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The Birth and Death of a Professional Wrestling Alter-Ego: Takahara Hidekazu’s Gamushara and the Loss of a Transgressive Identity by Fareed Ben-Youssef

“…Japanese filmmaker Takahara Hidekazu's film Gamushara (2015), portrays joshi puroresu (female professional wrestling) star Yasukawa Act working through the trauma of sexual abuse through the spectacular world of professional wrestling. …”
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Pro-wrestling fandom and digital archives of wrestling event merchandise by Francine N. Sutton

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Representations of Hulk Hogan in the 1980s: Christianity, Masculinity, Xenophobia by Conor Heffernan

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CMS.997 / CMS.602 Topics in Comparative Media: American Pro Wrestling, Spring 2007 by Ford, Sam

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Bodies in Pain, Pleasure, and Flux: Transgressive Femininity in Japanese Media and Literature by Marianne Tarcov, Fareed Ben-Youssef

“…Across a diverse set of texts from Japanese media and literature, including professional wrestling, avant-garde writing, and Zainichi Korean literature, this special section explores the fluid relationship between femininity and the body, where one is neither defined nor determined by the other. …”
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From a ‘Lass Kicker’ to ‘The Man’: WWE’s Irish Wrestler Becky Lynch and the Appropriation of Hegemonic Masculinity by Michael Lydon

“…Keywords: Popular Culture; Irishness; Professional Wrestling; Hegemonic Masculinity; Neoliberal Feminism …”
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Naked Villany: The Fatal Attraction of Richard III and Donald Trump by David Livingstone

“…This theatrical skill is also compared to the ‘heat’ generated by villains in professional wrestling, whose popularity is marked by how much hatred they can produce.…”
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Hygienic assessment of risk factors for skin infections in athletes–wrestlers by N.Ch. Davletova, I.A. Zemlenukhin, D.S. Martykanova, S.M. Mugallimov, A.M. Akhatov

“…According to the results of the study of wrestling athletes it was determined that the risk of skin infections of this group of people is higher, especially of the wrestlers engaged in professional wrestling. The number of cases of skin infections among the wrestlers-respondents is 9.5 times higher (p<0.001) than among the students not involved in professional sports. …”
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Supporting nursing roles in medical assistance in dying: Development and evaluation of an evidence-based reflective guide by Barbara Pesut, Sally Thorne, Gloria Puurveen, Betsy Leimbigler

“…Qualitative responses revealed an array of emotions that resulted from the philosophic, moral, and professional wrestling that is characteristic of this new practice. …”
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Professional uncertainty and disempowerment responding to ethnic diversity in health care: a qualitative study. by Joe Kai, Jackie Beavan, Christina Faull, Lynne Dodson, Paramjit Gill, Angela Beighton

“…We found that, as they sought to offer appropriate care, health professionals wrestled with considerable uncertainty and apprehension in responding to the needs of patients of ethnicities different from their own. …”
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