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Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: McGunnigle2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Cosplay, Ethnography, Fandom, Gender, Superhero, USA Creators: Goodrum, McGunnigle, Prescott, Smith Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) Collection: Gender and the Superhero Narrative |
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Genderswapped characters are rarely a canonical part of a company’s intellectual property, but rather a concoction of fan creativity. However, as Rule 63 made its way around the internet, variations in its wording showed a bias in the adage’s primacy of gender. The male character and his female genderswapped version is shown to be the rule while female to male genderswapping is an often-missing corollary. Such a gendered hegemony is present not only online but also in general fan culture. This chapter interrogates the processes that underpin this and also investigates the nature of cosplay through ethnography.
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