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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"homosocial"”.
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Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire
<p>I explore the dynamics of homosociality in late medieval culture, investigating both Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> and its cultural and political environments. I articulate two conflicting attitudes toward male same-sex relations: one affirming and celebratory, the other homophobic. I …
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Buddy films and gender identity : representing the bonds of masculinity /
… representation of masculinity in relation to the homosocial and the homoerotic. As a genre, the buddy films focus on male relationships, thematically seeking to mediate the boundaries surrounding the homosocial continuum and the intimacy and eroticism implicit in male bonding. Theories of genre, …
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An investigation into the existence of white leadership prototypicality in the Department for Work and Pensions: an ethnic minority perspective
… In particular, the research examines how homosocial reproduction and the effect of social closure can limit the promotion opportunities for ethnic minorities in this organisation.
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"Complicating ""a Very Masculine Aesthetic"": Positional Sons and Double Husbands, Kinship and Careening in Jack Kerouac's Fiction"
… record of one man's search for self in a homosocial world at the same time it is a family historian's self-conscious record of the threat to family that men like him pose.
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Desire And Influence: Male Self-Realization And Film Progression Due To The Influential Women In The Films Of Wes Anderson
… book Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. Much of her work builds off of Sigmund Freud and Girard's theories, although they differ in the fact that Freud and Girard see the love triangle as being symmetrical despite gender and Sedgwick theorizes that the triangle is …
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“THE KINSHIP OF HER PAIN”: INTIMATE HEALING IN AMERICAN WOMEN’S FICTION
… to the nexus of theology, speculation, and homosocial religious devotion in sentimental and Afrofuturist fiction, I illuminate religiosity as a site of healing intimacy and the formation of non-heteronormative families. I organize my dissertation chapters thematically rather than …
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A Queer Genealogy of "Havruta": Study Partnership as Intimate Relationship Between Men in Jewish Literature
… study partnership that has evolved in a male homosocial context of traditional Judaism as a central pedagogical method and an important religious practice—with forms of same-sex erotic and affective connections, often analogous to marriage. This dissertation argues that the trope of queer …
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Unconquerable Monsters Of The Imperial Periphery: Early Dinosaur Fiction, 1864-1912
… of human futurity, whether reproductive or homosocial, that cross race and class boundaries.
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The trajectory of male homosexuality in Nazism
… early Nazism valued hypermasculinity and homosocial relationships. Right-wing veterans of the First World War were attracted to the Nazi paramilitary unit, Sturmabteilung (SA), led by Ernst Röhm, a well-known gay man. The SA leaders promoted close male bonds among the members, which led to …
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Trapped in Bluebeard's Chamber: Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century "Desperate Housewives."
… (1) religious devotion, (2) masochism, and (3) homosocial relations as “coping mechanisms” in their plight. I identify each of these reactions to Bluebeard figures in Cooke’s writing in order to understand the contradictions in her works, for, like Cooke, these brides were products of their …
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Divorcing Tradition: Marriage, Family and Female Homosociality in Puerto Rican Literature
… and social relations between women (female homosociality) in selected works of Luisa Capetillo, Rosario Ferre, and Ana Lydia Vega, three Puerto Rican women writers of the twentieth century. In unique ways, Capetillo, Ferre and Vega destabilize the various legal and literary versions of the …
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Mask and closet ; or, "Under the Hood" : metaphors and representations of homosexuality in American superhero comics after 1985
… flamboyant, as sadomasochistic, as suspiciously homosocial, or as a pedophile. In Part Two, close readings of contemporary instances of gay characters in superhero texts offers insights into current trends in representation. The close readings examine Northstar, of the Marvel comics Alpha Flight …
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Social organization of authenticity in Mexican restaurants
… introduces the concept of gender posturing and homosocial behaviors as a means of developing a pragmatic understanding of the many ways male restaurant workers define, perform, negotiate, and police the boundaries of acceptable forms of masculinity. The third major theme of this project blends …
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La fête des femmes : the feminine republic of letters in the long eighteenth century
… through a variety of literary forms and homosocial practices can be seen to have developed externally to the narrow confines of the querelle des femmes. This literary community is part of a wider trend of women writing for and about their own sex which I term the feminine republic of …
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"My First Best Love": Women's Writing on College Friendships 1880–1905
… educational institutions further promoted homosocial networks. Women’s college students built community through their shared experience inhabiting a collective space, forging social circles as well as one-on-one intimate relationships. This thesis examines women’s experiences of friendship …
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Women and World War One: Perspectives on Women's Role in WWI Literature
… women constructed and maintained heterosexual, homosocial, and platonic relationships. Using a gender theory approach, this thesis analyzes two semi-autobiographical fictional texts, Evadne Price’s <em>Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War, </em>published in 1930, and Mary Borden’s <em>The …
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Geografias De Resistencia: Espacio Poetico Y Homosexualidad Masculina en La Poesia Espanola Contemporanea
… in order to demonstrate how a homosexual and homosocial subjectivity appears inscribed in an aesthetic vision of space.
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(IL)Legitimate Problems: Instances of Queer Familial Creation and the Reinforcement of Patriarchal Structure in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
… instances of male-created families through homosocial bonding in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron. Each of these three conservative texts almost entirely erases the role of the female in familial creation. They instead rely …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
… Marseilles, Banjo (1929), and considers the homosocial interactions of the vagabond collective. A comparison of North America and France as supposed exemplars of individual liberty highlights the unsuitability of nationalistic prerogatives to an internally diverse black diaspora. Paul …
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