Cosplay-playing with costumes…and gender norms?

My objective was to discover why female cosplayers [those who dress up as Japanese anime (cartoon) and manga (comic) characters] cross-dress in cosplay, thus becoming “crossplayers”. I explored the possibility of these crossplayers disliking “feminine” expectations in anime/manga and daily life; and...

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Main Author: Lee, Joanne Suyen.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/22662
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English