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Embodied Errantry: Constructing Relational Masculinity and Destructing Gendered Othering in The Dragon Can’t Dance Cover

Embodied Errantry: Constructing Relational Masculinity and Destructing Gendered Othering in The Dragon Can’t Dance

By: Amanda Bryan  
Open Access
|May 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33596/anth.410 | Journal eISSN: 1547-7150
Language: English
Published on: May 23, 2022
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