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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"homonormativity"”.
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Anthropophagic Queer: A Study on Abjected Bodies and Brazilian Queer Theory
… depict queer alternative representations to both homonormativity and heteronormativity as forms of resistance, at the same time as prejudice and homonormativity remain present in contemporary Brazilian social practices.</p>
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(Un)Exceptional: Representations of the Marginalisation of Black Female Queer Desire in Chinelo Okparanta's “Under the Udala Trees” and Leona Beasley's “Something Better Than Home”
… the notion of U.S. sexual exceptionalism and homonormativity as theorised by Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages. In doing so, I aim to show that while the United States of America positions itself as more progressive than countries that continue to criminalise and persecute same-sex desiring …
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New Latinx Feelings: Race, Affect, And Form In Queer Latinx Literature
… it has contended with deracialized language and homonormativity resulting from colorblindness and the mainstreaming of LGBTQ rights. Through analyses of queer(ed) literary production of a post-1990s Latinx MFA generation, I argue that literary form registers feelings of racialization in …
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That's Ru-volting! how reality TV reimagines perceptions of American success
… consciousness while subverting traps of homonormativity and queer assimilation? How does this affect drag not seen on TV? This thesis reveals the strategies RuPaul’s Drag Race executes to retool hegemonic perceptions of the drag queen as a deviant who exists on the fringes of society into …
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Gender and Sexuality in Blame Attributions for Intimate Partner Violence
… has a significant main effect. I discuss how homonormativity and its symbolic violence might explain my nonsignificant results. I also discuss the gendered expectations surrounding violence and performance that create a culture that legitimates victimizing, the importance of intersectionality, …
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53x+m³=Ø? (Sex+Me=No Result?): Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film
… fiction question available models of hetero- and homonormativity and facilitate new discourses on how a/sexualities are produced, constructed, and performed. They are, however, not unproblematic because asexuality is imagined as a mandated way of life. My findings thus suggest that Keri Hulme's …
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Gays Going Global: Institutional Scripting and Inclusion of Homonationalist Student Identities in Study Abroad
… (2007) argues that this new normativity, called homonormativity, is part of a larger nationalist project that constructs and defines the terms of national belonging by extending sexual citizenship to the "good gay citizen." One way that individuals can work towards their inclusion is through …
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The Illusion Of Inclusion: Curricular Possibilities Amidst A Homonational Project
… by heteronormativity and its appendage, homonormativity, which typically privileges white, well-to-do gay men, is incorporated into curricular resources and the ways in which these depictions and manifestations tie to national interests. As more resources become available to address LGBTQ …
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Queering Composition and Identity: Moving Beyond Inclusion in Composition Classrooms and the Field
… formation, not just by heteronormativity but homonormativity as well. Pedagogically, queering subjectivity allows GLBTQ student writers in particular to begin forming academic voices that neither mandate they mimic a heterosexual objectivity nor accede to a prescribed, stereotypical gay …
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Sexual citizenship beyond the metropolis: Bareback sex, chemsex and loneliness in a rural county in the United Kingdom
… given to intersections with the concept of homonormativity, a good/bad citizenship binary and public health policy setting.
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Queer(y)ing LGBTQ+ Advertisements
… study exposes and problematises the hetero- and homonormativity (re)produced in LGBTQ+ advertising in both mainstream and LGBTQ+ media. The findings therefore contribute to the emergent literature on how LGBTQ+ sexualities and genders are discursively constructed and shaped by heteronormativity. …
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Making “Quare” Spaces: Re-membering Childhood as a Queer Practice of Indigenous African Place-making
… with queerof-colour critiques of hetero- and homonormativity. Quare in this research study is deployed as part of various contemporary endeavours to locate racialised and class knowledge in identity. It is also used to articulate genderqueer and sexually non-conforming subjectivities such that …
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Towards a Cultural Geography of Queer Storytelling through Collective Biography
… show that labels of heroes and icons perpetuate homonormativity; there must be critical engagement with the politics of visibility; and there is a need to platform queer joy whilst still attending to the difficult realities of LGBTQ+ life. This thesis attends to the impact and meanings generated …
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Towards a Cultural Geography of Queer Storytelling through Collective Biography
… show that labels of heroes and icons perpetuate homonormativity; there must be critical engagement with the politics of visibility; and there is a need to platform queer joy whilst still attending to the difficult realities of LGBTQ+ life. This thesis attends to the impact and meanings generated …
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Wolf Packs: U.S. Carceral Logics and the Case of the New Jersey Four
… shifting sensibilities in relation to neoliberal homonormativity, follows the rubrics set up by the genre of Man, making it no less important as a critical response to the case of the Four but also a useful heuristic for examining the limitations of pandering to that genre, particularly in …
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The experience gay males face in the obtaining and maintaining of their positions in educational leadership
There have been many studies, including school-based research, detailing the rejection, violence, and hatred experienced by gay men (Hershberger, Pilkington, & D’Augelli, 1997; King, 2004; Rasmussen, 2004). Despite these findings, political, legal, and social changes that began in the late 1960s …
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Acts of Belonging: Perceptions of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women in Germany
<p>This thesis examines how people who have multiple identifications develop a sense of belonging. It focuses on those with politicized, romanticized, and stigmatized identifications which are assumed to be in conflict with one another. My particular case is that of "queer" women of Turkish descent …
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A Qualitative Approach to Studying the Lived Experiences of High School Aged Sexual Minority and Gender Nonconforming Youth Across Relationships and Contexts.
<p>Four youth who identified as sexual or gender minorities were recruited from a high school in Upstate New York for a study designed to investigate the experiences that facilitate or hinder their ability to fully question and explore their identities between and across relationships and contexts. …