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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Queerness"”.
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On Covering: Queerness
The literature on the ethics of presenting as queer has been largely confined to a commonly acknowledged phenomenon called "passing," or fully concealing one's membership to a marginalized group. Often employed as a survival strategy, many are sympathetic to the idea that one should be able to pass …
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A Shape for Queerness: Glimpses, Loops, Holes, Language
… and the ways that the shared experience of queerness affects notions of time, lineage and orientation. It examines the way queerness creates a non-reproductive lineage which stops, starts and skips across time. This installation is an articulation of the contradictory bumps and associations, …
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Toxic Masculinity and Queerness in "Jane Eyre" and "Emma"
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Queerness in der Serie A League of Their Own
… Arbeit mit der Frage auseinander, inwiefern sich Queerness in der Serie A League of Their Own (Will Graham/Abbi Jacobson, US 2022) verorten lässt und ob mit den Darstellungen in der Serie normative Kategorien hinterfragt werden. Mit der Methode des Close Watching werden ausgewählte Darstellungen …
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A Question of Queerness: Case Studies of Contemporary American Television
… all three programs show some tendencies toward queerness, they also take steps toward negotiating with mainstream culture, indicating that complete queerness may be an unattainable goal on American television.
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LOTS OF AWFUL THINGS: INTERSECTIONS OF QUEERNESS AND CANCER THROUGH AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
… illness at the intersections of disability and queerness. In Chapter One I provide a rationale and provide a cursory explanation of crip-queer theory. In my second chapter I employ Robert McRuer’s notion of the origin story to chart the development of crip-queer theory by looking to the similar …
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Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936
“Exceptional Queerness” tracks the cultural, legal, and medical narratives produced around moments of “discovery” wherein the female body of an individual whom a community knew to be male was revealed. This study investigates nineteen such cases, and tracks the ways in which the stories changed as …
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Outside gaymers: queerness, and race in online gaming culture in South Africa
This research project looks at how virtual worlds can provide a space for queer people of colour to experiment with their identities, sexualities and gender. It therefore focuses on how South African queer youth make use of virtual spaces to explore their identities and gender expressions. I ask …
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Queer Tropical Frames: New Representations of Queerness in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
… thesis draws critical attention to the place of queerness in the twenty-first-century upsurge of Latin American LGBTIQ-themed cinema. In my analysis, I challenge the pervasive Euro-centric focus in film studies about the region adopting an overarching decolonial framework. I emphasise the …
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Identity and Place: Exploring the Complexities Between Rural Education, Community, and Queerness
These combined manuscripts explore the intersections of rural education, community influences, and diverse identities by challenging rural monoliths and deficits while working to address opportunity gaps for rural youth and educators. Theories throughout this work include critical pedagogies of …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
This thesis identifies strategies of queer/irony in the writings of Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the concept. The thesis establishes an approach to the multifaceted concept of irony and …
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The Song We Sing: Negotiating Black Nationalism And Queerness In James Baldwin's Late Novels
Despite his exclusion from the Black Arts Movement, James Baldwin includes in his later novels many elements of Black Nationalism, including a focus on black communities, black music, Pan-Africanism, and elements of separatism. In his inclusion of queer sexuality, Baldwin pushes against the typical …
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'Once Famous in an Odd Way': Curiosity and Queerness in Late 19th-Century American Male Impersonation
<p>This thesis depicts the emergence of one particular iteration of the popular female actor within 19<sup>th</sup> century performance, the male impersonator, and identifies the ways in which this theatrical expression was related to and affected by similar amusements of the period. Public …
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Lovecraftian Queerness: Weird and Queer Temporalities in <em>Lovecraft Country</em> and <em>Detransition, Baby</em>
<p>By analyzing H. P. Lovecraft’s work through the lens of queer temporality, I offer a queer perspective on Lovecraft, reading the monstrous outside in his work as a queer figure and casting the temporal conflict common to Lovecraftian horror as a conflict between dominant time and outside time. I …
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'AS VIVID AS BLOOD IN A SINK': (RE)READING QUEERNESS AND REPRESSION IN TEJU COLE'S OPEN CITY
… victim intertwined with more subtle aversions to queerness, sexuality, and intersubjectivity.</p>
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Educating Queerness: An Exploration of Identity Construction Through the Schooling Experiences of Transgender and Non Binary Adults
<p>Transgender people and youth have been disproportionately denied their civil and human rights in educational and societal institutions. At the foundation of these actions and legislations that deny transgender people their rights is the rooted belief in the gender binary as a naturally …
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A Defense of Mackie's Moral Error Theory: Essays on the Argument from Queerness and Formulation Problems
… of moral facts that apparently avoid any queerness (Nagel 1997, Putnam 2004, Parfit 2011, Scanlon 2014). According to them, moral facts exist without ontological robustness, so they would not be queer. However, once the argument from queerness is more clearly articulated, it becomes …
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Welcome Home Stranger: The Evolution & Assimilation of the Queer Monster
… than with the demonized? This essay explores why queerness clings to the monstrous, and how this dynamic has shifted over time. When does monstrosity feed into queerness, and when does queerness enhance the monstrous? Using the character Mystique from the long-standing X-Men franchise as a case …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying Men with Broken Wrists: Using Intsomi as Critical Fabulation to Refute the Notion of Queerness as un-African
My research attempts to challenge the contemporary perception of homosexuality as “un-African”. This misconception is often grounded in the perceived absence of queer people of colour from the “archive” of black African (hi)stories that shape our collective understandings of who is and who is not …
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