1. The Crying Game
Ever since the Stonewall riots and the Gay Liberation movement of the 1970's, most people might agree that being openly homosexual is much more socially acceptable than it was in the notoriously homophobic 1950's. ... Some of those include behavioral cues, textual cues, mythic cues, power dynamics as cue and sexual orientation as cue. ... This certainly makes sense because Dil wants to pass as a woman, but what does it mean that she conforms to socially and culturally constructed views of what gender is? ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate