Tag: Gender Studies
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Gluck – A Forgotten Queer Artist of the 1920s

Fleur O’Reilly explores the life and works of British queer artist Gluck, who defied gender expectations in both her personal life, but also in her original and distinct artworks.
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Queer Performance and The Male Gaze: Redrafting Masculinity through Comparison in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn

Harry Fry explores the construction of masculinity in Emerald Fennell’s critically acclaimed feature film Saltburn.
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Book Review – Parreñas, Rhacel. 2011. Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Rhacel Parreñas’ 2011 text, “Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo”, seeks to examine the misconceptions surrounding the Filipina hostesses of Japan whose livelihood came under global scrutiny through the US-led anti-trafficking campaign. Rosie Inwald discusses Parreñas’ work and the issues with a top-down perspective on the agency of these women.
