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Episode 35: Did anyone expect the Spanish Inquisition?

Sources

Lu Ann Homza, 2006. The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources.

Helen Rawlings, 2006. The Spanish Inquisition.

John Edwards, 1992. ‘Why The Spanish Inquisition?’ Studies in Church History 29, 221-236.

Henry Kamen, 2014. The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. 4th Edition.

Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, 2011. A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition.

The Jewish Virtual Library. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-inquisition

Kimberly Lynne Hossain. 2007. Unravelling the Spanish Inquisition: Inquisitorial Studies in the 21st Century. History COmpass 5(4), 1280-1293.

James Maxwell Anderson. 2002. Daily Life During the Spanish Inquisition. 

And of course https://youtu.be/JMMrL0LOon0 

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Episode 34: Was it better to be a hetaera than a wife in Athens?

Episode here: https://bit.ly/2RFN8zE 

Some sources here. A lot of the trials came from Demosthenes.  You can read Demosthenes Against Neaera here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Dem.+59+1&redirect=true and Isaeus on Alke here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0142%3aspeech%3d6 should you so wish. 

Allison Glazebrook. 2016. ‘Prostitutes, women, and gender in Ancient Greece’ in Women in Antiquity: Real women across the Ancient World, Edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean MacIntosh Turfa.
Jayoung Che. 2017. Citizenship and the Social Position of Athenian Women in the Classical Age. A Prospect for Overcoming the Antithesis of Male and Female. Athens Journal of History 3 (2), 97-118.
Sarah B. Pomeroy. 1975. Goddess, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity.
David M. Schaps. 1998. What Was Free about a Free Athenian Woman? Transactions of the American Philological Association 128, 161-188
Rebecca Futo Kennedy, 2015. Elite Citizen Women and the Origins of Hetarai in Classical Athens, Helios 42 (1), 61-79.
Edward E. Cohen. 2016. ‘The Athenian Businesswoman’, in Women in Antiquity: Real women across the Ancient World, Edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean MacIntosh Turfa.
Edward E. Cohen. 2016. Athenian Prostitution: The Business of Sex. 

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Episode 33: The Age of Airships

One correction: I said that the waterpark is in a 1920s airship hanger but actually it's from an attempted 1990s revival! Apologies and thank you to Numenius arquata for updating me!

Sources:

J. Duggan, H. Meyer. 2001. Airships in International Affairs 1890 - 1940 - legit the most boring book I’ve ever attempted to read.

Harold Dick, Douglas Robinson. 1985. The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg - written by two people who worked on the Hindenburg

Robert Hedin (ed). 1998. The Zeppelin Reader: Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Age of Airships

Martin Van Creveld. 2011. The Age of Airpower

R.P. Hearne. 1910. Airships in Peace and War, 2nd edn.

Jeanne Marie Laskas. 2016. Helium Dreams: A new generation of airships is born. New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/a-new-generation-of-airships-is-born

Gregory K. H. Bryant 2010. A Very Brief History of Airships. Lightspeed http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/a-very-brief-history-of-airships/

Ian Castle. 2008. London 1914-17: The Zeppelin Menace.

Graf Zeppelin’s Round the World Journey 1929 Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0sM5hMeqlo

British Pathe The Hindenburg Disaster explosion footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgWHbpMVQ1U

Herbert Morrison’s Eyewitness Reporting on the Hindenburg Disaster as it happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXO7mdBcA48

Gizmodo. 31 Images from the Golden Age of Airships https://gizmodo.com/31-photos-from-the-golden-age-of-airships-when-zepplin-1376407382

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Episode 32: Chinese Tickle Torture?

https://martinifisher.com/2017/04/23/titillatio-a-brief-mythology-ancient-history-and-philosophy-of-tickling/ 
C.R. Harris 2013 'Tickling', in the Encyclopedia of Human Behaviour 2nd ed. - contains the amazing pretend robot tickling experiment. 
Racist tickle porn site: http://www.ticklingforum.com/archive/index.php/t-112908.html
Heinz Heger, 1994 The Men with the Pink Triangle.
Pictures of Death By 1000 Cuts and other info about actual tortures in China: https://www.chinasage.info/torture.htm
Some alleged examples of people being tickled to death/as a torture, most of which are nonense, but does include the Man Tickled Wife Mad text: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.multimedia.tk/viHVc2KzwZk/gOoVL6aEwJYJ
Maxim Korolkov, 2011 ‘Arguing about Law: Interrogation Procedure under the Qin and former Han Dynasties” Etudes Chinoises 30. - Chinese torture documentation
Jonathan Spence, 1998. The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds.
Nancy Park, 2008. Imperial Chinese Justice and the Law of Torture. Late Imperial China, 29 (2) 37-67.Nancy Park, 2008. Imperial Chinese Justice and the Law of Torture. Late Imperial China, 29 (2) 37-67.
D. Jones. The Function of China in Western Social and Political Thought.
James Williams, 1893. The Function of Torture on Roman Law II. Law Review 5th Series 64.
Gavin Yamey. Review of Torture:European Instruments of Torture and Capital Punishment from the Middle Ages to the Present. BMJ 11th August 2001. 

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Episode 31: Why did people drink so much beer in the middle ages?

A few books and articles I read for this one.

The main two were standard books on the history of beer and ale: 

Ian Hornsey, 2003, A History of Beer and Brewing. RSC 

Richard Unger, 2004, Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Then a few articles and books on specific aspects:

Charles Bamforth, 2004, Beer: Health and Nutrition. Blackwell had a lot on beer as a health food in the middle ages, and defences of beer. 

Franz Meussdoerffer, 2009, A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing, in Handbook of Brewing: Processes, Technology, Markets, ed. HM Ersslinger.

Eline Poelmans and Johan Swinnen, A Brief Economic History of Beer in The Economics of Beer, ed. JFM Swinnen. 

This is Tofi Kerthjalfadsson's 1998 experiments in making authentic medieval beer while trying to to give himeself lead poisoning (wimp).  https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pwp/tofi/medieval_english_ale.html

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Episode 30: What links an actress, and empress and a goose?

The only thing you need for this episode is some Propertius.

Here's his incredibly sycophantic litany of Justinian and Theodora's buildings:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Buildings/home.html

and here's the good shit: The Secret History:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Anecdota/home.html

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Episode 28: Lebensborn

Reading
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/world/europe/07nazi.html 

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15548608/ns/world_news-europe/t/secret-nazi-lebensborn-children-go-public/#.XGBGuDP7TRY  

https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/woman-birth-hitler-lebensborn-aryan-child-hildegard-trutz-germany/  

http://www.spiegel.de/international/nazi-program-to-breed-master-race-lebensborn-children-break-silence-a-446978.html  

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-quot-lebensborn-quot-program  

Olsen, Kare, 2005. Under the Care of Lebensborn: Norwegian War Mothers and Their Children in Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy edited by Kjersti Ericsson, Eva Simonsen

Dorothee Schmitz-Köster, A Topic for Life: Children of German Lebensborn Homes in Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy edited by Kjersti Ericsson, Eva Simonsen

Von Oelhafen, I and Tate, T. 2015. Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity.

http://www.mychildlebensborn.com/ 

http://www.mychildlebensborn.com/truestory 

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Episode 27: Viking and Mongolian Women

Some secondary sources for the episode:

 Henenstierna-Jonson, C, et al. 2017.  'A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics' American Journal of Physical Anthropology 164.4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23308 

de Nicola, B.  2013. Ruling from tents: the existence and structure of women’ ordos in Ilkhanid Iran. In: Robert Hillenbrand; A.C.S. Peacock and Firuza Abdullaeva, eds. Ferdowsi, The Mongols and Iranian History: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia. London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 116-136.

De Nicola, B. 2010. Women’s Role and Participation in Warfare in the Mongol Empire. In: K. Klaus Latzel; S. Satjukow and F. Maubach, eds. Soldatinnen. Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis Heute. Paderborn: Schöningh, pp. 95-112.

De Nicola, B. 2018. Women in Mogol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335. Edinburgh University Press.

Weatherford, J. 2010. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens. Penguin.

The Secret History of the Mongols in various languages  http://altaica.ru/e_SecretH.php 

Clover, C.J. "Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe," Speculum 68, no. 2 (Apr., 1993): 363-387.

Jesch, J. 1991. Women in the Viking Age. The Boydell Press. 

Diaz-Andreu, M and Sorenson, M.L.S. 1998. Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology. Routledge. 

Jochens, J. 1995. Women in Old Norse Society. Cornell University Press. 

Magnusdottir, A.G. 2008. Women and Sexual Politics in: S. Brink and N. Price, The Viking World. Routledge. 40-48. 

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Episode 26: Time!

Not much reading for this one tbh pals. But here's some Phantom Time Hypothesis stuff. 

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf   

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/who-lost-the-middle-ages.html 

And here's Heribert Illig on the YouTubes (in German)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rso0BqcXkWc 

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Episode 25: Witch Trials

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/11/quarter-people-executed-witchcraft-were-men-and-other-surprising-facts   

Moshe Sluhovsky, The Devil in the Convent, The American Historical Review 107(5) 2002. 1379-1411.
Michel de Certeau, The Possession at Loudun. 1990.
Brian A. Pavlac, Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials. 2009.
Bengt Ankaraloo, Stuart Clerk and William Monter, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials. 202.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-witches-of-salem 

The pact signed by Germain and the demons and stolen from Satan's very own filing cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudun_possessions#/media/File:UrbainPact2.jpg 

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Episode 24: Quick Christmas Questions

Incomplete references:

Weintraub, Stanley 2001. Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas truce. London: Pocket

Mike Dash. 2011. The Story of the WW1 Christmas Truce. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/

Rachel Foxley. 2015. Christmas Under Cromwell. https://unireadinghistory.com/2015/12/11/christmas-under-cromwell/

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Episode 23: What’s the History of the Crimson Wave?

  • Elissa Stein and Susan Kim. 2009. Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation.

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Episode 22: What’s the History of Albinism

Enrico Pasini. 2016. ‘A Prodigious Bodily Nature: Debates on Albinism 1609-1745. Natureza, causalidade e formas de corporeidade. 193-236. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1632037#.W-bd3ZP7REY

Andrew Curran. 2009. ‘Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the French Enlightenment Life Sciences.’ History and Theory 43.9. 151-179.

Charles D. Martin. 2002. The White African American Body@ A Cultural and Literary Exploration.

Christopher Hohl and Matthias Krings. 2018. ‘Extraordinarily White: The De/Spectacularization of the Albinotic Body and the Normalization of Its Audience’ . In: Liebelt C., Böllinger S., Vierke U. (eds) Beauty and the Norm. Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment. 75-103

Vera Illugadóttir. 2015. “The Invasion of the Ice Family: That Time a Group of Albinos Drove Icelanders Crazy.” The Reykjavik Grapevine (15): 30. https://issuu.com/rvkgrapevine/docs/issue_15_2015_master_issuu_all 

Tom Jack, The Ice King. https://www.thehumanmarvels.com/tom-jack-the-ice-king/

V. Ö. Vilhálmsson. 2013. Tom Jack and His Family. https://fornleifur.blog.is/blog/fornleifur/entry/1301961/

WUWM. 2014. Former Fashion Photographer Aims to Create 'New Standard of Beauty' Beyond Physical Differences. https://www.wuwm.com/podcast/lake-effect-segments/2014-04-04/former-fashion-photographer-aims-to-create-new-standard-of-beauty-beyond-physical-differences#stream/0

United Nations. ND. People With Albinism: Stories. https://albinism.ohchr.org/stories.html

Wendy Mothata. 2018. ‘It’s About Time We Treat People with Albinism as Human Beings not Ghosts’ SA People News. https://www.sapeople.com/2018/04/17/its-about-time-we-treat-people-with-albinism-as-human-beings-not-ghosts/

AP. 2015. ‘These albino children hunted in Africa will break your heart’ NY Post. https://nypost.com/2015/08/18/africas-hunted-albino-children-receive-new-limbs-new-hope/

BlackGirlWhiteSkin. 2015. Historic Art Installation at National Museum. https://medium.com/@nataliedevora/historic-art-installation-at-national-museum-e0ddbb383be1

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Episode 22: What’s The History of Omens?

M Radford & E. Radford. 1947. Encyclopedia of Superstitions

Mark Menjivar. 2015. The Luck Archive. https://cargocollective.com/menjivar 

Stuart A. Vyse. 1997. Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition.

Robert L. Park. 2008. Superstition: Belief in an Age of Science.

Michael Shermer. 1997. Why People Believe in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time.

Torunn Selberg. 2010. ‘Taking Superstition Seriously.’ Folklore 114.3. 297-306.

Jan Fidrmuc. 2015. ‘Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck. Kyklos 68.3. 317-334.#



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Episode 20: What Are the Best Historic Ghost Stories?

HistoryExtra. 2016. Three Curious Medieval Ghost Stories. https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/3-curious-medieval-ghost-stories/

Matthew Joynes. 2001. Medieval Ghost Stories.

Sir Walter Scott. 1814. Illustrations of Northern Antiquities.

Andy Wright. 2014. Devil Dogs: The Mysterious Black Dogs of England. https://modernfarmer.com/2014/06/black-shuck/

The Suffolk Coast. The Legend of the Bungay Black Dog. https://www.thesuffolkcoast.co.uk/articles/the-legend-of-the-bungay-black-dog

Pliny the Younger. Ep7.27. http://vroma.org/vromans/hwalker/Pliny/Pliny07-27-E.html

Anna Green. 2015. The Screaming Skulls of England. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70464/screaming-skulls-england

Joshua J. Mark. 2016. A Ghost Story of Ancient Egypt. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/964/a-ghost-story-of-ancient-egypt/

Roger Clarke. 2014. Ghosts: A Natural History.

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Episode 17: Have Children Really Never Had It So Good?

(Incomplete references)

Lloyd DeMause. 1974. The History of Childhood.

Philippe Aries. 1962. Centuries of Childhood

Anna Davin. 1999. What Is A Child? in: Childhood in Question: Children, Parents and the State. ed. Anthony Fletcher and Stephen Hussey. 15-36.

Lindsey E. Jones. 2016. Intersectional Critiques of the Criminalization of Black Girls, Past & Present. https://www.aaihs.org/intersectional-critiques-of-the-criminalization-of-black-girls-past-present/

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx

Paul Slack. 1988. Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England.

D. Toddman. 2007. Childbirth In Ancient Rome: From Traditional Folklore To Obstetrics. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 47, 82–85.

Tim Parkin .1992. Demography and Roman Society.


Roald Dahl. 1984. Boy: Tales of Childhood.

National Archives. Extracts from Lord Ashley’s Report 1842. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/industrial/source4.htm

Robert Krulwich. 2012. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Is That Always A Good Thing? https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/01/162079442/do-you-know-where-your-children-are-is-that-always-a-good-thing?t=1626009602656

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Episode 14: Why Did Christianity ‘Win’?

Very very incomplete!


Ramsey MacMullen. 1984. Christianising the Roman Empire (AD 100-400).

Bart Ehrman. 2018. The Triumph of Christianity; How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

Ramey MacMullen and Peter Brown. 2011. The Tenacity of Paganism, NYRB https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/06/09/tenacity-paganism/ 

Catherine Nixey. 2018. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World.


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Episode 13: Did The Nazis Really Go Looking for the Lance of Longinus?

Eric Kurlander, 2017. Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. 

Eric Kurlander, 2017. A Song of Ice and Fire. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/song-ice-and-fire

Peter Levanda, 2002. Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult.

Nicolas Goodridge-Clarke, 1985. The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology. 


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Episode 10: How Has Music Changed over History? ft. Dr Anna Scott.

Paleolithic flute made from a vulture bone 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCBBDV2Tzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUFRmQ4eso 

Hurrian hymn #6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhB9gRnIHE 


Ancient Greek music - the work of Armand D’Angour on reconstructing hymns and sections of dramatic chorus https://youtu.be/4hOK7bU0S1Y 

Earliest surviving complete piece of composition is the Seikilos epitaph c.100ad from Turkey. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%CE%9F_%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%A3%CE%B5%E1%BF%96%CE%BA%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85_-_Epitaph_of_Seikilos.ogg

Indian Hindu vedic arts - the Samaveda - 1000BC - sections of the Rigveda set to a melody and chanted http://www.vedchant.com/Yajur.mp3 

Chinese Xun - like egg flutes made of clay. Oldest are about 5000bc . https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ARecording_of_Xun.ogg 

Solitary Orchid in the Stone Tablet Mode - written for the guqin in 7thC AD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPqX2rgCAok 

Synaulia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLXyBzMci0

Musica Romana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4KqvAhqFA 

Music of the Middle Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHzH5iDcGQ

Le Jeu De Robin Et Marion by Adam de le Halle, troubadour in the 13thC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIx07t14jw

Hildegard of Bingen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei88J4lERbk

Hermann of Reichenau 11thC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petits_Chanteurs_de_Passy_-_Salve_Regina_de_Hermann_Contract.ogg 

John Dowland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrzAo9Wl4

"A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp86xtRUokA

Baroque:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLj_gMBqHX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dYNttdgl0

Classical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o

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Episode 8: Did Women Really Dress As Men to Join the Army?

Catherine Baker: https://twitter.com/richmondbridge/status/983619848973553664?s=09

Mark Stoyle. 2018.‘Give mee a Souldier's Coat’: Female Cross‐Dressing during the English Civil War. History 103 (354) pp. 5-26. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-229X.12542

Catherine Baker. 2018. Montrous Regiment. History Today. https://www.historytoday.com/catherine-baker/monstrous-regiment

Cheryl Morgan. 2018.  How Not To Erase Trans History.  http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/erase-trans-history/ 

 Julie Wheelwright. 1990. Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness

 DeAnne Blanton, Lauren Cook Wike. 2002. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

Fraser Easton. 2003, Gender's Two Bodies: Women Warriors, Female Husbands and Plebeian Life. Past and Present 108, pp. 131-174. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3600742 

Jing Yin, 2011. Popular Culture and Public Imaginary: Disney vs. Chinese Stories of Mulan. Javnost - The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture 18 (10), pp. 53-74.

Peter Boag. 2011.Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past. 

Lila Guadêncio, nd. The Pillars of Mimicry: Performativity and 'Realness' in Hua Mulan. http://www.academia.edu/24696528/The_Pillars_of_Mimicry_Performativity_and_Realness_in_Hua_Mulan 


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