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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"homosociality"”.
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Brotherly Love: Remaking Homosociality and Masculinity in Fan Fiction
Studies on fan fiction have traditionally employed ethnographic or literary methods to study the activities of fans. Since the 1980s scholars have focused particularly on slash fiction as unique and subversive, but this has been at the cost of devaluing other genres of fan fiction as less critical …
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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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Stereo/Types: Canadian Women DJs Sound Off
… Particular attention is paid to the effects of homosociality and heteronormativity on womens engagement with DJ technologies, and how we resist these forces by forming networks to establish our own physical and digital spaces in Canadian DJ culture. Although womens access to DJ culture and our …
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Masculinities, generations and health: Men's sexual health in Bangladesh
… dynamics of religion (especially Islam), work, homosociality, patriarchy and heteronormativity, and how these in turn affect sexual health and health-seeking practices. This thesis contributes to a socially located understanding of masculinities, gender and men’s sexual health from a social …
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'Food, Body Weight, and Everyday Life in England, c. 1954–1990'
… of dieting is, in part, a history of female homosociality. Although the slimming industry is often linked to patriarchal oppression, women derived enjoyment and a sense of autonomy from the rise of group dieting practices in the late 1960s. I argue, thirdly, that ‘body consciousness’ …
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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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‘How Does it Feel?’: Masculinity, Transformation and Structures of Feeling in British Television in the 1970s and 1980s
… narratives stress the importance of nostalgic homosociality as a way of reaffirming residual identities. In conclusion this thesis suggests a model of gender which, whilst undergoing a considerable degree of destabilisation which may facilitate certain changes in normative behaviour, may also …
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The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s
… second novel, explores the deep and abiding homosociality present in the story of the Stamper family, a logging clan in Oregon. I frame my argument about the homosocial (and homosexual) activities of communities of male loggers in the Northwest by addressing the primary homosocial …
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Wittgenstein and his students, 1912-1968
… noses at Cambridge’s “immoralist” conception of homosociality reset public discussions of method to better suit their interests as logicians. In recovering this “tentative and incomplete” approach to doing philosophy, the study also works to unpack those now largely forgotten curricular …
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Thackeray and Bohemia
… the relationship between the anglicized brand of homosociality which characterizes Thackeray‘s later fiction and the often contradictory images of Bohemianism which were circulating in 1830s and 40s Paris while he was an art student and then a foreign correspondent in the city. In the process, it …
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Ghanaian men and the performance of masculinity: negotiating gender-based violence in postcolonial Ghana
… leads to questions about the construction of homosociality as a zone of safety and status, one threatened by behaviour from twenty-first century wives. This thesis both confirms earlier research on masculinities and domestic violence in its clear revelation of discursive collusion between men …
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Mandom och mödom: Sexualitet, homosocialitet och aristokratisk identitet på det senmedeltida Island
The purpose of this study is to show how political and sexual strategies interacted when the Icelandic elite was reorganized in the late Middle Ages. During the years 1262 through 1264, the Icelanders agreed to pay tax to the Norwegian king and thus Iceland evolved into a more organized and …
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Shakespeare's Drama and Homosexuality
Queer teorie se začala pomalu etablovat v 80. letech a stala se velmi důležitým prvkem genderových studií konce 20. století, který ovlivnil nejen genderové kategorie jako takové, ale i vnímání těchto kategorií v textech. Tato práce se soustřeďuje na queering dramat Williama Shakespeara a popis …