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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"QUEER HISTORY"”.
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Archiving Transgender: Affects, Logics, and the Power of Queer History
… Transgender:Affects, Logics, and the Power of Queer History examines three archives that collect transgender material in order to analyze archives as rhetorical sites where a complex interplay of language, politics, logic, and affect shape archival research. Current scholarship in rhetorical …
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Uncovering Queer Domesticity: Intuition and Possibility as Methods of Intervention Into the Historic House Museum and Archive
This thesis is an exploration of queer domesticity, queer possibility and intuitionin historic house museums. It develops a methodological framework intended to intervene in archival, research, interpretive and institutional practices at these sites. Using the Elfreth’s Alley Museum’s podcast The …
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Neither Then nor Now: Queer Temporalities & Interwar Portraits of Expatriate Sapphists
This dissertation, Neither Then nor Now: Queer Temporalities & Interwar Portraits of Expatriate Sapphists, considers the subjective power of portraiture and rethinks its (auto)biographical nature, examining the temporally unique function and repercussions of American expatriate Sapphist portraiture …
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Normative Narratives of Queer ‘Success’: The Sacrifice of the Queer in *Dumbo* and *The Imitation Game*
… of that which renders them Other. Using queer theory, with a broad understanding of queer as anything that deviates from hegemonic conceptions of the cultural normal, I argue that such narratives of queer success are ultimately conservative as they are invested in heteronormative …
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The vampire inside my camera: an exhumation of gender, monstrosity and queer worldmaking through photography and video
… Camera: an exhumation of gender, monstrosity and queer worldmaking through photography and video uses the vampire character as metaphor investigating shame and desire through a queer lens. Examining how the vampire has taken shape in the public imagination, this text discusses folktales, art- …
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“Jewish, Gay and Proud”
… this foundation. Los Angeles has an impressive queer history and the Jewish community was more open, tolerant and innovative here than its counterpart on the East Coast. The Metropolitan Community Church was also founded in the city, and as the largest religious institution for homosexual …
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Nation, Narrative and Archive: In Search of Queer Histories in Zimbabwe
… argues for a new genealogy for telling the history of queerness in Zimbabwe. State-sponsored histories have created a narrow, nationalist narrative that relegates queerness to the margins. This is a project that resides in those margins. By sinking deep into the spaces that queer bodies …
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Contagious History: Affect and Identification in Queer Public History Exhibitions
For LGBTQ people, history is never simply the past, what has passed, or what is dead and gone. Uncovering neglected LGBTQ pasts has been heralded not only as a project for historians but as an explicitly political endeavour. Histories that document LGBTQ lives and cultures have not traditionally …
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Female Ensembles: Lesbian Neo-Victorian Fiction, 1998-2023
… Sedgwick defines it (1997) to lesbian literary history through neo-Victorian novels, short fiction, and film from the last twenty-five years. Chapter one argues that this subgenre of writing attempts to revise the fragmented historical record of queer history, and these texts hope for a …
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Open Gates, Broken Promises: Inclusion Policies and Transgender Student Experiences at Gender-Selective Women's Colleges
… archival document analysis regarding trans* and queer history on campus; and participant observation of events and spaces on campus with trans* students, my objective is to describe the world that takes shape when gender and feminism become institutionalized, routine, and used as descriptions to …
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Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality
"Queer Things" takes the connections between homosexuality and materiality, and those between literary texts and cultural objects, as major repositories of queer history. It scrutinizes the objects that circulate within the works of Oscar Wilde as well as in the output of high fashion designers and …
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Russian blue: The production of queer identity in 1990s Russia
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Sodomy and human difference: Anglophone conceptualisations of Ottoman male same-sex activity, c.1590–1700.
This dissertation focuses on the ideas of sodomy and human difference in early modern Anglophone discourses. The purpose of my thesis is to historicise and to complicate our understandings of Anglophone conceptions of sodomy in relation to the Ottoman Empire. This thesis argues that, far from being …
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Designing American Taste: Frank Alvah Parsons, Queer Pedagogy and the Development of Applied Art and Design Education in the 20th Century
… Parsons’ closeted sexuality and how he built a queer community through design during the early-20th century. Parsons’ personal papers do not live in any institutional archive, and what exists has been obscured or missing from established archives, at least in part because of his sexuality. …
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Objects Of Display: Presenting Intimate Queer Histories Through Sculptural Practice
… practice to generate intimate and minor queer histories that challenge the normative modes involved in the production and display of material histories. It examines how archaeological artefacts are bound within a western construction of linear time and how their display in traditional …
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“Mother has arrived!” : History, Race, and Family as Vehicles in RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Legacy Building
… analyze in this study are the show’s version of history of drag in the USA and who fits in it; references to and appropriation of minority subcultures; employment and perpetuating of racializing stereotypes; and use of different types of family discourse. I focused on 2014’s RuPaul’s Drag Race …
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Rebel youth: The history of LGBT youth organizing in post-Stonewall America
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Reanimating the Renaissance: Aesthetes and Art History, 1873-1914
… sheds new light on the making of art history at the end of the nineteenth century. By centring the work of ‘non-experts’ such as Vernon Lee, Natalie Barney, and Isadora Duncan, women are shown to have had an active role in the recovery of the renaissance. Considering the role of …
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Mother of the house of no shame: The queer economy of Rupaul’s Drag Race
The student, Ted Faust, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-06-13 at 15:37.
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