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More than Alchemic Reactions: Playing with Gender Norms in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fetch, Amber
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395617137

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2014, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
In this thesis, I explore the ways in which several characters in the anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood play with gender, and what impact that gender play has on larger social structures within the narrative. I use a close reading of the text, and of four characters in particular (Lust the Lascivious, Envy the Jealous, and the Armstrong siblings), to deduce how hegemonic patriarchal powers influence and control gender performance for those characters closely related to them, and spur on gender play in characters defying said powers. These characters occupy a liminal space between generations that is vital to their gender play. I argue that views on gender in this particular series are a symptom of shifts in generational understandings of the world overall, not just in relation to gender performance.
Kristen Rudisill (Committee Chair)
Satomi Saito (Committee Member)
Becca Cragin (Committee Member)
75 p.
Gender; Gender Studies; Mass Media
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood; gender performance; gender play; gender studies; patriarchy; hegemony; generational differences; Lust the Lascivious; Envy the Jealous; Alex Louis Armstrong; Olivier Mira Armstrong

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  • Fetch, A. (2014). More than Alchemic Reactions: Playing with Gender Norms in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395617137

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Fetch, Amber. More than Alchemic Reactions: Playing with Gender Norms in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. 2014. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395617137.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Fetch, Amber. "More than Alchemic Reactions: Playing with Gender Norms in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395617137

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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