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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"lesbian studies"”.
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Identity politics in Canadian artwriting : C Magazine and Parachute, 1983-1996
… Foregrounding the developments of gay and lesbian studies and queer theory, Chapter Three explores the appearance in C Magazine and Parachute of articles that address issues of sexual identity. This study is framed by an ongoing discussion of Homi Bhabha's conceptualization of the double …
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The politics of speaking for : theorizing the limits of liberation and equality in gay and lesbian political discourse
… 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 only or primarily to the impediments to liberation and …
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The Impact of Outness and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Formation on Mental Health
… 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 health is more mixed. In …
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Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality
"Queer Things" 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 …
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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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The Vast Unsaid: Lesbian Erasure and Celebration
<p>Lesbian erasure negatively impacts the accessibility to literature, archives, and records of lesbian history as a result of being buried within queer and feminist discourse. As a result, scholars often classify lesbians into other categories, effectively rendering them invisible and unimportant. …
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Silent Outsiders: Searching For Queer Identity In Composition Readers
This study searches twenty composition readers' table of contents 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 …