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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"heteronormative"”.
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Heteronormative Discourses and Women's Bodily Subjectivities in Aotearoa-New Zealand
… Zealand are discursively constituted through heteronormative norms that privilege slimness and align with male-centred ideals of desirability. While body image research has primarily focused on young, heterosexual, white women, it has often overlooked the relational and power-laden discursive …
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Evaluating gender in retail servicescapes: Beyond the heteronormative binary approach
For consumers who view gender and sexual orientation as fluid concepts, navigating and interpreting in-store atmospherics is a crucial step in their process of reaffirming gender identity, exploring their self-expression, and finding ways of fitting in. A non-binary individual who prefers a more …
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A Cosplayed Life: Subcultural Influences on Racial and Heteronormative Structures in Everyday Life
<p>This study is centered around the subculture of cosplay. Cosplay - the amalgamation of the words costume and play coined by Nobuyuki Takahashi in 1984 - is a growing phenomenon in the United States and around the world. Specifically, it is an activity where fans of Japanese animation create a …
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Constructing Parents: The Heteronormative Recruitment of Sperm and Egg Donors in the Reproductive Market
… how the reproductive market relies on heteronormative understandings of gender and family. Findings suggest that gamete banks and donation agencies adopt policies, procedures, and guidelines influenced by gendered parenting roles. Egg donors are constructed as altruistically motivated …
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"Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen
… with the conflict slash fiction proposes for the heteronormative endings typical of the popular romance genre, specifically within the works of Ann Herendeen.
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How to make Facebook your friend: queer self-presentation on a heteronormative social network site.
… gender performance. With specific attention to heteronormative structures, this paper challenges former claims of the potential for social progress inherent in social network sites and calls for changes within.
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“A Real Man . . .”: Deconstructing Machismo Heteronormative Standards with K–12 Latino Male Educators through Dialogic Spaces
… consciousness demonstrated how they rejected heteronormative standards, engaged in critical pedagogical practices, and worked to dismantle patriarchal systems. Participants accumulated knowledge and skills vital to navigating their personal and professional lives. This study revealed how …
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Towards a more comprehensive understanding of adults’ responses to infant cues adopting a multi-method and non-heteronormative approach
… adults’ responses to infant cues going beyond a heteronormative perspective. Our findings reinforced the argument that differences between males and females, if present in the response to infant stimuli, might not always be biologically determined, but reinforced by societal norms. In addition, …
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Football, Femininity and Muscle: An exploration of Heteronormative and Athletic Discources in the lives of elite-level women footballers in South Africa
… of masculinity and femininity within a heteronormative social structure have shaped beliefs about women's capacities, characteristics and bodies, and have constructed a hegemonic feminine ideal that has historically excluded the possibility of being simultaneously feminine and athletic. …
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Exploring the lived experiences of transgender individuals in Ireland from an occupational perspective
… (1) discovering, surviving, and confronting the heteronormative world through occupational avoidance and exploration while coming out as trans, (2) navigating “passing” alongside medical and social transitioning to live authentic lives, (3) persevering within the heteronormative world comprises …
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Free to Be: One Charter School's Approach to Supporting Gender and Sexual Minority Students
… spaces and how providing students an anti-heteronormative inclusive education impacts a student’s sense of self. I show how critical pedagogy is deployed as an anti-heteronormative approach to supporting all students. The term anti-heteronormative is used to express an explicit rejection of …
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(Trans)forming the Binary: An Archive of Gender Affect
… oppressive force upheld by the patriarchal and heteronormative power structures enmeshed in the built environment. Through investigation of the complex feedback relationship between our bodies and the social and physical landscapes in the performance and embodiment of gender, this thesis asks …
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Narratives of how young men raised in lesbian and gay families navigate South African Heteronormativities
… men raised in gay/lesbian families navigate heteronormative communities in South Africa. Queer theory and theory on Radical Democracy were adopted as theoretical frameworks while the data was produced through semi-structured interviews conducted in person and virtually with eight men raised …
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Masculinity and shell shock in the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon: soldier of trauma and poet of abjection
… through his poetry, critiques the idea of a heteronormative, hypermasculinity that was propagated throughout the period of WW1. The pressure to perform in the hypermasculine area of war resulted in emotional conflict for Sassoon subliminally explored through his writing, which allowed him to …
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Sons, husbands, and lovers: marriage, filial piety, and transgender men in Chinese media
… before participating in legal, public, and heteronormative institutions such as marriage, family, and adoption. Looking at the relationship between Chinese media discourse on transgender before and after the formation and promulgation of the 2009 sex-change regulations suggests the …
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Reporting for the general population : heteronormativity in HIV/AIDS coverage of two city newspapers, 1981-2023
Assuming a heteronormative framework as the guiding foundation of any mainstream news organization, this study analyzes HIV/AIDS coverage published by The Chicago Tribune and The Houston Chronicle from 1981-2023. The coverage was reviewed in the context of treatment as coordinated by each city's …
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Reading queer subtexts in children’s literature
… of this project is to explore and to challenge heteronormative assumptions regarding childhood and adolescence. I will show how these assumptions affect the literature published and made available to young readers, and how, often, overtly queer texts are not available for young readers. Such …
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A Patriot for Men: The Politics of Masculinity in John Osborne's "A Patriot for Me"
… I argue that play very much typifies the heteronormative politics of masculinity by placing a dominant homosexual (Redl) as protagonist, and inverts the positions of the period woman and the staged effeminate man. Redl is historically represented as a heroic homosexual, but is actually a …
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EXILES OF HETERONORMATIVITY: QUEER REPRODUCTION AND FEMALE SAME-SEX FAMILIES IN SINGAPORE
… citizens who have been treated as exiles of heteronormative kinship.
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