Contents
Members of the Journal Team II
Acknowledgements III
Editors’ Note
Glenn Price, Amy Jones, Rodrigo Neves, Samantha Martin
Editorial Board IV
Introduction
Claire Melia | Editor-in-Chief V
Flipping Out about Gender: Cross Gender Casting and Shakespeare
Kelly Housby 1
Non-compos mentis: An Exploration of the Link between Infanticide and Pleas
of Insanity in Medieval England.
Lauren Dale 7
Blossoming into the Desired Body: A Phenomenological Approach to Ely
Shipley’s Boy with Flowers
Aimee Merrydew 15
Wonder (Wo)man: Examining Gendered Identities and Gender Bending
Through [the art of] Cosplay
Daniel Skentelbery 23
Externalisation and the State of Exception: A Biopolitical Analysis of the
Human Rights Abuses within the Offshore Processing Plant of Nauru.
Aaron Bettany
32
Birdman: The Unexpected Shake-up of Cinema
Natalie Webster 43
Notes on Contributors 49
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