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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"lesbianism"”.
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Hannah Hoch, Til Brugman, Lesbianism, and Weimar Sexual Subculture
Hannah Hoch was an avid collector of Weimar print media and her signature medium was the photomontage. Because of this, her work is generally explored within the context of mainstream media and, to a degree, this is adequate. Yet this dissertation questions the completeness of this path of enquiry …
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'A sort of juridical phantasm' : the criminal law’s (lack of) engagement with lesbianism
… approach as one of silencing, in which lesbianism is not simply ignored or unimaginable but is deliberately excluded from legal discourses. However, the existence of such a policy cannot alone explain the complex ways in which lesbianism has been regulated, and so two particular issues …
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Lesbianism : a post-structural/post-modernist critique of selected theories relevant to clinical practice
… in psychiatry and psychoanalysis pertaining to lesbianism and relevant to clinical practice. The post-structuralist/post-modernist framework employed considers lesbianism as a category constructed in a particular socio-historical context and involving particular power relations. The role of …
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An exploration of accounts of lesbian identities : using Q methodology
… British research on the social construction of lesbianism, which includes an analysis of seven accounts of lesbian identities elicited using Q methodology. The major aim of this research was to find the accounts of lesbian identities presented by some South African lesbians, as the first stage …
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Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936
… figure of the “female invert” as the symbol for lesbianism by the late nineteenth century. However, this dissertation is motivated by the conviction that the mere construction of new identity categories did not mean that all bodies would automatically be legible through them, and thus seeks to …
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Sons, husbands, and lovers: marriage, filial piety, and transgender men in Chinese media
… in the media to online public ""accusations"" of lesbianism, I examine both state and social media discourse on transgender, revealing a complex and dynamic relationship between law, filial piety, and gender in contemporary China."
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Exploring Sapphic Discourse in the Belle Epoque: Colette, Renee Vivien, and Liane De Pougy
… until 1900 that women began to publish works on lesbianism, attempting in their appropriation of the subject to transform the discourse into their own. Unwilling to imitate the discourse of their male predecessors and yet unable to break completely with social tradition, Liane de Pougy, Colette, …
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A Rose By Any Other Name: An Examination of Rural Lesbian Identities in the Upper Midwest
… dichotomy* in respondents" expressions of lesbianism. Some of the most significant correlations emerged between outness, feelings about being lesbian, and commitment to the lesbian label. Additionally, attending a gay/lesbian event and feelings were also significantly correlated.</p> <p>As …
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Towards a queer liminality: an examination of the use of space in Irish lesbian fiction 1872-2017
… space, is significant as it signifies how lesbianism can be regarded in spatial terms. By applying theories of liminality to lesbian fiction, this thesis examines the points of intersection between queer and liminal space, to argue for what could be defined as a space of queer liminality …
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Stoornis
… identity, such as abortion (DIE SLAGDING) and lesbianism (WAG OP DIE KONINGIN), are scrutinized. No formal distinction was made between theory and criticism in the feminist discussion of STOORNIS. Theory and criticism were mutually regenerated and applied in the individual texts. Based on an …
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How to make a girl: female sexuality in young adult literature
… analyzing themes and tropes such as body image, lesbianism, pregnancy, and romance, and their relationship(s) to female sexuality, this study reveals the participation of Young Adult literature in the social construction of femininity and female sexuality. Examining these texts with a feminist …
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Second-Wave Feminist Approaches to Sexuality in Britain and France, c.1970-c.1983
… It examines five significant topics: abortion, lesbianism, pornography, prostitution, and rape, all of which were campaigned on by feminists in each country. There has been a distinct lack of historical comparative works on the two movements, and few attempts to compare their discussions and …
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The Breakdown of Societal Norms, Practices, and the Transformation of Adolescent Sexual Behaviour: A case study of Lang’ata Ward; Nairobi County, Kenya
… in risky behaviours such as homosexuality, lesbianism, transactional sex, live sex shows with multiple partners. The study recommends the formulation of appropriate intervention strategies, the availing of reproductive health information and guidance & counselling for the youth; so that they …
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Parched: The Queer Alcoholic on the Modern American Stage, 1940-1970
… of “sex perversions” (e.g. male homosexuality, lesbianism, transvestitism, transgender sexuality, voyeurism, and sadomasochism). Unsurprisingly, both excessive drinking and queer sexual conduct came to be similarly pathologized as compulsive behaviours that caused both bodily and psychic …
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Dancing Across Borders: Women Who Become Lesbians in Mid-Life
… particular attention to the relationship between lesbianism and feminism, and the impact of queer theory on lesbian identity. It also examines the changing nature of representations of lesbians in popular culture.
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Lesbian identities and everyday space in contemporary urban Russia
… within a broader analysis of discourses on lesbianism in popular culture and the media. The thesis critically assesses the centrality of the ‘East/West’ binary in the existing literature on Russian sexualities. Rather than imposing Western-centric categories of identity, it explores women’s …
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Willa Cather: Male Roles and Self-Definition in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and "Neighbor Rosicky"
… called herself a lesbian. Cather's supposed lesbianism is useful because it reveals the ambiguity of her personality. Cather is paradox because she sought for self-definition, but she also suffered from an identity crisis. By using the shifting nature of gender roles in the America during the …
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Devouring the father: family and recuperation in Triomf and the Native Commissioner
… of Mol, and by her attempt to counter-position lesbianism as a viable post-apartheid identity. Therefore, the text exposes an anxiety about paternal authority, suggested by the patriarch's death on voting day. Ten years later, I argue, Shaun Johnson attempts to recuperate this paternal white …
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"Something beyond ordinary love": (Re)covering the extraordinary in Compton Mackenzie's Extraordinary Women
1 PDF file (iii, 71 pages)
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Lesbians and the right to equality: Perceptions of people in a local Western Cape community
When lesbians, as women divert from social norms and reject the compulsory heterosexual norm, they are either punished through legal systems for transgressing patriarchial structures or not recognised at all. As women, lesbians suffer at the hands of a homophobic society which believs that women …
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