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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Compulsory heterosexuality."”.
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They won't : analyzing queerbaiting and compulsory heterosexuality in popular television.
… of gender identity. Adrienne Rich's theory of compulsory heterosexuality provides the best explanation for why queerbaiting happens and can offer new ways to analyze these texts to uncover queerbaiting when it occurs.
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Existing off the Map: Reading Stein and Barnes as Hybrid Architects
… Anzaldya's <i>Borderlands</i>, Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," and Judith Butler's <i>Gender Trouble</i>. Together these three writers' theories offer a working definition of hybridity as a move or a strategy that seeks to create habitable spaces where …
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Staged lives: identity construction of lesbian, bisexual, and gay wind band conductors in the Midwest
… in the Midwest was complicated by stigma and compulsory heterosexuality. The study was motivated by three research questions that considered how environment shapes identity, how agency shapes identity, and how, upon reflection, band conductors describe their identities. Extant research on the …
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From future homemaker of America to the lesbian continuum: the queering of Mary Ann Singletone in Armistead Maupin's Tales
… he provides a contrast to the dysfunctions of compulsory heterosexuality in Mary Ann's journey. The combination of these two characters intertwines feminism and queer rights in Maupin's narrative.
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Orientation Device
… mindset, a tool of vital nausea and questioning compulsory heterosexuality. The work is a series of augmented reality (AR) experiences for mobile device that allow the audience to participate in documentary queer performances in any private or public setting. These immersive experiences challenge …
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Tirant lo Blanc(h): masculinities, phallosocial desire, and triangular constellations
… means of erotic triangles within a (mandatory) heterosexuality, where women become the (required) vessel by which phallosocial desire is reified and brought to a culmination within the established patriarchal paradigm of compulsory heterosexuality.
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(Un)Exceptional: Representations of the Marginalisation of Black Female Queer Desire in Chinelo Okparanta's “Under the Udala Trees” and Leona Beasley's “Something Better Than Home”
… notions of secrecy and censorship; as well as compulsory heterosexuality and homophobic violence contribute to the marginalisation of Black queer women in both the United States of America and Nigeria.
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Geografias De Resistencia: Espacio Poetico Y Homosexualidad Masculina en La Poesia Espanola Contemporanea
… direct opposition to the ideological tenets of compulsory heterosexuality. Hence, this dissertation has studied this triumvirate as a group in order to demonstrate how a homosexual and homosocial subjectivity appears inscribed in an aesthetic vision of space.
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Lesbi Honest: Barriers to Identifying and Actualizing Sexuality as a "Later in Life Lesbian"
… My findings reveal that heteronormativity, compulsory heterosexuality, lack of representation, gendered expectations, and the pursuit of success all acted as societal barriers that delayed these women in their sexual orientation identity development. Thus, we see that Cass' recognition of …
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Wah Eye Nuh See Heart Nuh Leap: Queer Marronage In The Jamaican Dancehall
… and the interpretive legalities of sexuality, compulsory heterosexuality, and queerness. The research project begins by exploring the ways in which the gendered colonial law produces black sexualities as excessive and in need of discipline while also noticing how Caribbean peoples negotiate and …
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How to make a girl: female sexuality in young adult literature
… image and sexual responsibility, a critique of compulsory heterosexuality, pregnancy as impetus for separation from the traditional family unit and the idea of romance as a transitional stage for young women. While many texts reinforce traditional gender roles for young women, many more texts …
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Luti Masculinity in Iranian Modernity, 1785-1941: Marginalization and the Anxieties of Proper Masculine Comportment
… identity, a new conception of manhood defined by compulsory heterosexuality, monogamous marriage, 'rational' political roles and Westernizing sartorial presentations. The significatory processes of the Qajar (1785-1925) and first Pahlavi periods (1925-1941) would gradually produce a narrative of …
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Are they family?: Queer parents and queer pasts in contemporary American culture
… mothers, who are often reduced to stand-ins for compulsory heterosexuality in their husband’s stories, as figures queered by their proximity to LGBTQ history—a project later taken up by the Netflix series Grace and Frankie (2015-present). Together, these chapters demonstrate how queerness within …
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Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895
… and, to borrow a term from Adrienne Rich, compulsory heterosexuality. These novels raise the questions "how am I to be different?" and "if men and women are so different, why should we marry?" This study demonstrates the ways in which these works respond to these questions in their very …
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Earning or learning? : class, culture and identity in contemporary schooling : an ethnography from northern England and southern Ireland
… culture of strident homophobia, racism and compulsory heterosexuality is shown to present insurmountable barriers to improving school-based relations, without which the young people of the Bridgepoint estate will continue to prematurely disengage from education.Chapter 6 presents a …