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Showing 1 to 20 of 242 for “"Queer theory"”.
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Revisiting the queer : theory, literature and gay male studies
The main inspiration for a revisit to the topic of homosexuality is not only its noticeable absence from the UCT English curricula, but also the publication of the first Fundamentalist Christian text with a South African slant: The Pink Agenda: Sexool revolution in South Africa (McCafferty and …
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Anthropophagic Queer: A Study on Abjected Bodies and Brazilian Queer Theory
… literature and film in order to discuss queer theory and its ability to resonate with, and bring to light, specifically Brazilian concerns. The main argument of this dissertation is that, on one hand, such ideas and theories may change local perspectives; and that, on the other, they are …
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Women who kill their abusive partners : an analysis of queer theory, social justice and the criminal law
… through a theoretical framework developed from queer theory and social justice. More specifically, in relation to queer theory, the thesis considers the work ofJudith Butler and her notions of gender as performativity, cultural intelligibility, materialisation and resignification. The model of …
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"Fracturing the Space of the Real": Deriving a Korean Queer Theory from the Shamanic Feminist Poetics of Kim Hyesoon
<p>This thesis derives a Korean queer theory from the shamanic feminist poetics of Kim Hyesoon, arguing that her theorization of Korean indigenous spirituality [musok] and the shaman song "Abandoned Princess Baridegi" constitutes a counter-epistemological framework capable of articulating queer …
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Queer theory with a Latin flavor, is it sustainable in El Salvador? An examination of male homosexuality in contemporary Salvadoran literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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'Stop misgendering me, use correct pronouns:' A qualitative study grounded in Queer Theory on perceived organizational climate by transgender employees in the workplace
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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LOTS OF AWFUL THINGS: INTERSECTIONS OF QUEERNESS AND CANCER THROUGH AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
… of papillary thyroid carcinoma and crip-queer theory. This dissertation seeks to bridge queer theory, disability studies, and medical discourse through personal experience. Additionally, by employing autoethnography, this study creates nuanced narratives of living with chronic illness at …
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Contemprary lesbian genders: A queer/ sociological approach
… that has been influenced by poststructuralist theory, and in particular 'queer theory', through an empirical study of the social construction of lesbian genders. I examine sociological work on sexuality, queer theory and feminist work on butch/femme. Lesbian identities are constructed at the …
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Just Between Us Girls: Discursive Spaces from America's First Gay Magazine to the World's Last Website for Queer Women, 1947-2019
… Between Us Girls</em> charts the diffusion of queer theory outside of the academy, using convergence theory to examine communication technologies like periodicals and the Web to argue for a conception of queer theory that includes discourse between queer women about queerness. In making this …
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Mensura Incognita: Queer Kinship, Camp Aesthetics, and Juvenal's Ninth Satire
… reassessing the ninth satire in the context of queer theory and camp aesthetics. Chapter One traces the homophobic tendencies in the modern reception of Juvenal 9 across reception modalities including expurgation, biographical criticism, and persona theory. Chapter Two reviews relevant concepts …
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(Un)-African: queering South Africas approach to SOGI rights
This study uses Queer Theory to explore the inconsistencies in South Africa's approach to the international protection of people of non-normative sexual orientations and gender identities (SOGI). It seeks to understand why South Africa's support for SOGI rights in the international system has been …
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Unmaking him : Lee Daniels' Empire and the potential black masculine
… relationship, I employ black feminist and black queer theory to interrogate the ways in which Lee Daniels’ particular representation lends to an expansion of current notions of black masculinity within the quotidian. I argue that through re-representing the ways in which black men interact and …
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Sapphic reflections of feminine creative power and male interruption in the works of Virginia Woolf
With queer theory and gender studies, the knowledge that Virginia Woolf was probably bisexual has come to the forefront of scholarship concerning the writer and her works. With queer theory has come an interest in Sapphism, a term evoking Sappho, the only female lyric poet for whom any poetry …
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Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905
<p><em>Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890-1905</em> situates the queer-of-color cultural imaginary in a relatively small nodal point: the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Through literary analysis and archival research on leading and marginal figures of …
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How Counselors Are Trained to Work with Bisexual Clients in CACREP-Accredited Programs
… materials. Combining constructionism with queer theory and elements of post-positivism, I explore the magnitude to which bisexuality is addressed. Qualitative analysis provided insight into the essence of the information provided to counselors-in-training concerning bisexuality and the …
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The LGBT Community and Public Space: A Mixed Methods Approach
… adequately including sexuality. Geographical queer theory provides a foundation for public space research, but literature is limited to the creation of and contest over space. The goal of this research is to explore LGBT feelings in public spaces in St. Louis, MO. There are three components …
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Breaking heterosoc, making a queerworld: using a queer directorial aesthetic to re-envision Hedda Gabler
This essay explicates the queering of a seminal realist text, Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, by means of a queer directorial aesthetic. Using queer theory, the heterosexual matrix (built on a rigid gender binary) and the nuclear family are posited as the crux of heteronormativity, which is the …
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Androgyny and Dominance: Gender Construction in Anaïs Nin's Erotica Series
… the gender-bending society which inspired them. Queer theory is particularly effective for considering the sexual messages with which Nin populates her writings. Much as Judith Butler de-emphasizes totalizing gender roles, Nin allows her characters to occupy multiple gender roles. Thus, Nin's …
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