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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Heterosexuality"”.
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They won't : analyzing queerbaiting and compulsory heterosexuality in popular television.
… 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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Clinical judgment bias in response to client sexual orientation and therapist heterosexuality identity development
The current study examined the effect of client sexual orientation and gender role on psychologists’ clinical judgment. A secondary purpose was to examine the extent that psychologist heterosexual identity development status affects the level of heterosexist judgment error displayed when working …
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Deviant bodies and the reordering of desire: Heterosexuality and nation-building in early modern England
… shaping the emerging, interrelated discourses of heterosexuality and nationalism in early modern culture. Looking at heterosexuality as a complex structure organizing political and sexual relations, my project analyzes the production, circulation, and eradication of deviant sexuality in polemical …
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Gender (in)Query: Young Adults Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning Gender in a Queer Majority Space
… the authority of ‘truth’ while demanding heterosexuality. Consequently, sexuality and gender are linked inextricably as heterosexuality relies on the gender binary and the gender binary relies on heterosexuality. Via gender, queer, and situated learning theories this qualitative study …
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'Home is where the heart is': everyday geographies of young heterosexual couples' love in and of homes
This thesis focuses on the relationships between heterosexuality, love, and home. It examines the homemaking practices and relationship activities of 14 heterosexual couples, and in particular the experiences of women in these relationships, who are aged between 20-40 years, have no children, and …
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'No hard feelings': Resolving and Redefining Threatened Masculinity
… pursue dominant displays of masculinity through heterosexuality: Older men (85+) may abandon ideals of masculinity tied to sexual dominance as they once did in middle age. This dissertation weaves together men's three distinct pursuits of dominant manhood: approval of violence against women …
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Wah Eye Nuh See Heart Nuh Leap: Queer Marronage In The Jamaican Dancehall
… 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 subvert …
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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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Existing off the Map: Reading Stein and Barnes as Hybrid Architects
… <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 boundaries of right …
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Staged lives: identity construction of lesbian, bisexual, and gay wind band conductors in the Midwest
… 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 subject of …
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An exploration of Educational Psychologists' constructions of sexuality and the implications for practice
… a socially created value system which contrasts heterosexuality as normal and non-heterosexuality as inferior, Fish 2008), educational psychologists have not yet embraced action which locates intervention at the social level. This study explores Educational Psychologists’ (EPs’) constructions of …
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“Tell me about it, Stud”: Queering the Dancing Male Body in Musical and Dance Films of the 1970s and 1980s
Heterosexuality is coded on-screen in many musical films from the last century as a “celebratory ideal.” 1 This thesis explores the queer possibilities of the so-called heterosexual male in three films spanning a decade from 1977 with Badham's Saturday Night Fever and Grease (Kleiser, 1978), to …
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The Corporate Closet Managing Gay Identity on the Job
… in asexual terms, a certain model of heterosexuality pervades most white-collar workplaces. Heterosexual behavior and values are disguised by official ideologies that require professionals to be "asexual" at work, in accordance with prevailing beliefs about privacy, professionalism, …
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Psychoanalysis and male homosexuality
… cure. Their aim is to convert homosexuality into heterosexuality by conducting analysis on their homosexual analysands. Throughout this chapter I will be reinterpreting a case study of reparative therapy. The third chapter is a critical analysis of Richard Isay’s radical views of homosexuality. …
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Representations of love in the novels of Jeanette Winterson from 1985 to 2000
… through the questioning of the dominance of heterosexuality in Western discourses of love. Winterson's writing takes pleasure in the concept of the forbidden fruit and challenges the discourses that have legitimised heterosexuality and unhappy marriages. It is understood in her work that …
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From future homemaker of America to the lesbian continuum: the queering of Mary Ann Singletone in Armistead Maupin's Tales
… 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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Growing Up Tween: Femininity, Masculinity, And Coming Of Age
… in heteronormative ideologies suggesting that heterosexuality is ideal, and therefore to appropriately perform dominant femininity and masculinity is to perform heterosexuality. In this dissertation, I expand gender and sexuality knowledge by bridging the two in a population where sexuality …
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Transgression in the closet: Gay academics’ experiences of heteronormativity in China
… pervasive policing practices that perpetuate the heterosexuality/homosexuality binary and hierarchy. This thesis interrogates a variety of institutional practices and interpersonal interactions on Chinese campuses that privilege heterosexuality and marginalise homosexuality. It is shown that …
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Orientation Device
… 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 our …
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