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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"gay and lesbian studies"”.
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Identity politics in Canadian artwriting : C Magazine and Parachute, 1983-1996
… thesis attempts to determine where C Magazine and Parachute fit within international developments of theories on identity. Focussing on the period 1983-1996, the study analyzes articles published in these magazines and contextualizes them within theoretical and critical art discourse. Chapter …
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The politics of speaking for : theorizing the limits of liberation and equality in gay and lesbian political discourse
… critical examination of discourses of liberation and equality in contemporary North American gay and lesbian politics. Informed by work in cultural studies and political theory, it has as its principal theoretical objective a desire to refuse an oppositional political framework, one which looks …
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The Impact of Outness and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Formation on Mental Health
… disclosure, outness, sexual minority identity, and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. That is, while the relationship between LGB identity and mental health has been relatively consistently positive in the literature, the relationship between outness and mental …
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Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality
… 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 the …
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The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood
Rebellion and repudiation of the mainstream recur as motifs throughout Christopher Isherwood's novels and life, dating back to his early experience of the death of his father and continuing through to the end of his own life with his vituperative rant against the heterosexual majority. Threatened …
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Silent Outsiders: Searching For Queer Identity In Composition Readers
… for the degree of inclusivity of queer people and issues. Four means of erasure are labeled as possible erasing of queer identity: presuming heteronormativity, overt homophobia, perpetuating tokenism, and pathologizing queer identity. The presence of other differences are compared to the number …