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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Gay marriage"”.
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Sex, gender and genesis: A Cixousian exploration of language in the gay marriage debates
… imagery evidenced in contemporary debates on gay marriage? Helene Cixous suggests that Western thought is organized around binary, hierarchical oppositions---the most fundamental of which are male over female and masculine over feminine. Language and its connections to psychological and …
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Breaking through the binary, shifting the conversation: A multi-perspective conversation on gay marriage and queer equality
The dominant conversation of gay marriage legalization is currently centered on a limited "for or against" debate which places the Queer community and its allies in favor of legalization and everyone else in opposition. This limited "movement/countermovement" dynamic obscures and denies the …
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BACKPEDALING NUGGET SMUGGLERS: A FACEBOOK AND NEWS ARTICLE THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF CHICK-FIL-A VS. GAY MARRIAGE
… 14 strategies to address their CEO’s comments on gay marriage in an attempt to salvage their reputation. The transcendence strategy was used more than any other throughout the crisis. The thematic analysis of Facebook comments showed that religion and loyalty were the most addressed theme within …
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Contemporary French Queer Cinema: Explicit Sex and the Politics of Normalization
… legislation and the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2013. The thesis focuses on French queer films which are sexually explicit, including simulated and unsimulated sex acts. Using Michael Warner’s The Trouble with Normal and Michel Foucault’s conceptions of homosexuality, the thesis …
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Perimeters, Performances and Perversity: The Creation and Success of a Gay Community in Madrid, Spain
This dissertation utilizes the gay neighborhood of Chueca as the foci for understanding the rise of public gay identity in Madrid and Spain. By "reading" the urban space and coupling that reading with information gathered from ethnographic and historical methodologies, my work sheds light on the …
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Implementasi kafa'ah dalam perspektif Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS): Studi pandangan elit Partai Keadilan Sejahtera di DPW PKS Sulawesi Selatan
… Islam encouraged when they wanted to establish a marriage. Kafa `ah in a marriage, is the "other factors" that are not part of an essential principle of marriage, which contributed to the creation of happiness of the couple and ensure women of failure in marriage. In practice, in the community, …
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The Compressed Modernity of Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan: Digital Activism, Human Rights Discourse, and Intertwined Sexual, Political and National Identities
… Asian country to officially legalize same-sex marriage. Remarkably, the Taiwanese queer movement achieved the goal of marriage equality in only 30 years, with the first <em>tongzhi</em> (<em>同志</em>) activist group organized in 1990. Compared to Euro-American social movements, Taiwanese …
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Intellectual freedom and the politics of reading: libraries as sites of conservative activism, 1990-2010
… libraries as battlegrounds for causes like antigay activism, but also incorporated libraries and librarianship into the issue base of the pro family movement. A collection of loosely linked, well-organized grassroots campaigns around issues like opposition to abortion and gay marriage, the pro …
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“Stepsons and Stepdaughters”: Chosen Communities, Religion, Faith, and LGBT Liberation
… grew up knowing about the fight for and against gay marriage, equal rights, and fair and non-discriminatory treatment, the battle for LGBT rights was reduced, through various mediums like the media, the internet, and popular culture, as a battle between religion and the LGBT movement. This …
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Honor, Shame, and Redemption: Explicating the American Evangelical Right's Moral Worldview Regarding Same-Sex Marriage and Abortion
… Religious Right in American politics, same-sex marriage and abortion emerged as the seminal political issues in a burgeoning culture wars narrative. While previous literature in the sociology of religion and political science fields has examined conservative evangelical political mobilization …