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TANA WOJCZUK

“A confident, clever woman who played men’s roles not as titillation, but by taking gender itself as a performance”

TANA WOJCZUK explores the life of celebrated gender-bending American actress Charlotte Cushman and considers how Victorian moralists sought to suppress her trailblazing history

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