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Inspired by research steeped in oral histories

and draw out the implications for research

more than a tribe - that reflects in a clear light the epic strivings of men and women everywhere

mandated fetal therapy

our way of life would be extinguished

Sissy Insurgencies M. Gekhtman Inspired by research steeped inIn Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender practices that are expressed as a physical manifestation, discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon. He