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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies"”.
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Social work education from a lesbian standpoint
… study looks at social work education from the standpoint of lesbian students and faculty. The literature indicates that many social workers manifest signs of homophobia, and that this affects the provision of services to gay and lesbian clients. The purpose of this study is to explore how issues …
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Sexual consent in a gay, lesbian, and bisexual population: An exploratory study
… to sexual activity is negotiated between men and women in romantic relationships. Much of this research has focused on heterosexual relationships where factors affecting the process of consent include differential socialization between men and women. Consequently, the literature to date is …
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Transgender in College: Engaging Marginalized Collegiate Students
… what are the best practices to engage and empower transgender students within student involvement and leadership on college campuses, specifically through engagement within the Office of Student Life? This thesis theorizes that practices that are inclusive and respectful to transgender …
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XINGHUN: A "COOPERATIVE MARRIAGE" TIES CHINESE LESBIANS AND GAYS
… has been officially admitted, misconception and discrimination against homosexuals are still prevalent in the mainstream of Chinese society. Chinese LGBT people endure two main sources of pressure: one is from the external and another is from the internal. From the outside, Chinese LGBT …
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The Lavender Tide: LGBTQ Activism in Neoliberal Argentina
… the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2010 and following up with the passage of the gender identity law of 2012, Argentina has quickly catapulted itself to the forefront of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer) rights in the world. This study sets out to answer a simple question: how …
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Digital Rhetoric of the Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices on TikTok, 2020–2021
<p>This dissertation uses auto- and digital-ethnographic methods to analyze the literacy practices of bisexual TikTok users primarily during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, during which time TikTok exploded in popularity among U.S. social media users, especially among …
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Discursive departures: A reading paradigm affiliated with feminist, lesbian, aesthetic and queer practices (with reference to Woolf, Stein and H.D.) (Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Hilda Doolittle)
… reading is regulated by formations of discourse and power. I will argue that if reading is considered as a performative process then different paradigms of reading will name, and consequently produce, different identities for a text. I will focus, specifically, on feminist and lesbian reading …
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Acts of Belonging: Perceptions of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women in Germany
… focuses on those with politicized, romanticized, and stigmatized identifications which are assumed to be in conflict with one another. My particular case is that of "queer" women of Turkish descent in Germany with Berlin as my main study site.</p> <p>These people embody what is considered to be an …
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Recognition of the transgender self: an examination of the apologia of the 'pregnant man'
… 2008, Thomas Beatie, a legally recognized male, transgender man, became pregnant with his first child and approached the American mass media to tell his story and defend his decisions. Shortly thereafter, the public fought against his image, attempting to normalize his body and gender. Beatie's …
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Through the Devil's Mirror: The Villain and the Sinthomosexual as Manifestations of the Death Drive
<p>Lee Edelman’s <em>No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive</em> (2004) offers a model for reading queer sexuality and societal place very much in line with that which begins to emerge in early Gothic literature, including Matthew Lewis’s <em>The Monk: A Romance</em> (1796). The Gothic villain …
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A Daily Diary Investigation of Discrimination and Binge Eating Among Lesbian Women
<p>Lesbian women may experience discrimination because of their gender and their sexual orientation termed sexism and heterosexism, respectively. Both sexism and heterosexism are associated with increased psychological distress and negative affect among lesbian women. Furthermore, preliminary …
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