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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Sexualities"”.
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Fluid Sexualities in Frank Norris's McTeague
… on the limitations of language surrounding fluid sexualities in late-nineteenth century America. Through a queer theoretical lens, I examine the ways in which Norris collapses his characters and narrative in order to demonstrate those limits. Trina and McTeague suffer acutely from their inability …
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Tryst Tropique: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities
Tryst Tropique questions some of the assumptions that have been made about the heterosexual trajectory described by European desire as it has informed literary, artistic and anthropological representation of the South Pacific. It reads a series of contact encounters and Pacific residencies for …
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Perceptions of nonconforming sexualities and genders on television talk shows
GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer/Questioning) people often appear as guests on daytime television talk shows. Using cultivation analysis, the author explored television talk show viewers' perceived realism of television talk shows and GLBTQ people. This quantitative study tested …
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Construction of sexualities and sexual identities among young Ndebele women
… and cultural practices that influence women's sexualities. However, we do not have sufficient knowledge about how these social and cultural practices shape the constructions of female sexualities and sexual identities within this particular context. Instead, female sexualities were …
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Health ‘in queer street’: constituting sickness, sexualities and bodies in the spaces of lesbian health
… of the fluid and leaky constitutions of gendered sexualities and bodies. I conduct a study with 17 self-identified lesbians, using open-ended interviews that cover a variety of topics in the areas of health practices and concerns. Feminist Foucauldian approaches inform the critical discourse …
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Sexualities and Conflicting Moralities at Work: An Empirical Test of Black's Theory of Moral Time
This dissertation provides an empirical test of the relational dimension of Donald Black's theory of moral time. In Moral Time, Black (2011) aims to explain the causal mechanism of conflict within and across cultures, over time, and within macro, meso, and micro level interactions. According to …
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Fragile moralities and dangerous sexualities : a case study of 'deviant' women and semi-penal institutionalisation on Merseyside, 1823-1994.
This thesis is primarily concerned with the social control and disciplining of women within a semi-penal institution. As a case study it critically analyses the history of one particular institution from 1823 to 1994, chronicling its development from a nineteenth century female reformatory to a …
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“Girls Interrupted”: Young women ‘growing up’ in post-Katrina New Orleans: an exploration of the intersections of genders, sexualities and youth
… been well-documented, others, such as youth and sexualities are rather unknown (D’Ooge 2008; Fothergill and Peek 2008; Fordham 2011; Galliard et al 2017). To this end, the study explores the difference between young women by taking an intersectionality approach to research, finding that for this …
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What meaning do gay men on PrEP make of their sexuality: a phenomenological investigation
… how the participants made sense of their sexualities through lenses of being and doing something sexual, often through the identity and acts of sexual roles. Speaking about their sexualities and PrEP showed to be important to the participants, not only as a means of communication, but also …
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Everything Is Drag: The Politics of Performing Beautiful Women in Cold War Chile
… and performances of female bodies, genders, and sexualities in Chile under changing Cold War political regimes from 1950-1990. Drawing on deconstructionist and performance approaches, I consider the multiple, changing ways Cold War Chilean cisgender and transgender women performed their …
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Queering Social Justice Curricula within Higher Education
… identity. The social construction of gender and sexualities remains overlooked on the majority of college and university campuses, as well as the discrimination faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA) students unaddressed within curricula. The …
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Sodomy and human difference: Anglophone conceptualisations of Ottoman male same-sex activity, c.1590–1700.
… with Ottoman concerns about transgressive sexualities in specific contexts, such as coffeehouses, bathhouses, social gatherings and some Sufi orders. This thesis re-examines various avenues which were used to conceptualise and discuss human difference in early modern Anglophone thought, …
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Wah Eye Nuh See Heart Nuh Leap: Queer Marronage In The Jamaican Dancehall
… which the gendered colonial law produces black sexualities as excessive and in need of discipline while also noticing how Caribbean peoples negotiate and subvert these legalities. The work then turns to dancehall and its enmeshment with landscape (which reflects theatre-in-the round and African …
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What would a non-heterosexist city look like? : a theory on queer spaces and the role of planners in creating the inclusive city
… explicitly has led to the silencing of minority sexualities in planning discourse and the severe marginalization of many queer people in cities. To better understand the experiences of queer people (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) as a basis for creating new planning frameworks that …
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Parents and Special Educators' Perspectives on the Sexuality Educational Needs of Learners with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities in Ghanaian Special Schools
… counterparts. In order to promote the sexualities of persons with IDDs in Ghana, this study sought to explore how parents and special educators construct and address the sexuality educational needs of learners with IDD in special schools. Realist Social constructionism and Sankofa (an …
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The Erotic Work of Asian American Activism: Harnessing Kink, Queer, and Sex Worker Praxis
… the harnessing of alternative, kink, and queer sexualities within the Asian American community towards anti-racist and sex work positive activism during the COVID-19 pandemic era of anti-Asian violence. It opens by tracing the shooting on Asian massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia in 2021 to …
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Contemporary gay drama: the end of a modern crusade?
… changes in representation of dissident male sexualities in twentieth century British and American theatre, from early attempts to depict the homosexual as a distinct identity to more recent depictions of sexual dissidence which threaten the traditional boundaries of the gay/straight …
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"A different kind of girl" : young women's experiences of growing up and "coming out" in Northern Ireland
… Ireland as a means of examining ways in which sexualities are 'organised through economic, religious, political, familial and social conditions' (Plummer, 2003: 515). Informed by an interactionist approach it considers the ‘everyday’ ways in which young women construct non-conventional …
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