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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"queer studies"”.
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A Queer Departure: The Role of Queer Studies and Thanatology in Narrative Videogames Focused on Grief
This Masters thesis studies representations of young people in videogames through a transdisciplinary approach within the academic fields of Queer Studies and Death Studies, and their fused counterpart known as Queer Death Studies (QDS). Through the methodology of Fairclough’s (1995) Critical …
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Queer Natives
… of black diasporic culture and politics. ""Queer Natives"" begins from the premise that the black diaspora poses a historical and conceptual challenge to dominant histories and theories of sexuality in queer studies, which have tended to privilege white Euro-American experiences. Taking the …
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"I am Not a Hijra": Transgender Women Claiming Citizenship in South India
… in the global South responds to a call for queer studies scholars to consider how citizenship operates among sexual and gender variant people in global South contexts (Richardson 2017). While the identity rubric of transgender is increasingly adopted by individuals in the global South, there …
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"A Stranger to the World": Women, Bisexuality, and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England
<p>As queer theory has evolved and been adapted by scholars of various fields, queer studies has become increasingly important to academic understandings of the eighteenth century. However, the broadness of queer scholarship has resulted in specific sexualities becoming less visible. This project …
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The Queer Ecology of Clouds in Nineteenth-Century British Poetics
… writers frequently invoke clouds to disrupt or “queer” depictions of human-environment relationships built on human domination of environmental beings. Clouds, in poetic writing, help writers (and readers) instead experience subject-subject relationships of reciprocity—a collaborative, …
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Thirding North/South: Mexico and Turkey in international development politics
… assignations. Building on insights from queer studies and Edward Soja’s spatial theory, I develop the Thirding Lens as a heuristic to examine how Mexico and Turkey are positioned in and engage with international development politics, and how they contribute to reproducing, challenging and …
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Community Transportation Acts Archive
… an archival approach based in critical studies that focuses on the records and stories of individuals and groups with underrepresented perspectives in existing historical narratives. Reparative archiving draws from Black studies, Indigenous studies, queer studies, etc. and encourages …
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Beside engagement: a queer and feminist reading of socially negotiated art through dialogue, love, and praxis
… of the artistic process. The research draws upon queer studies, feminist studies, and affect studies to formulate an embodied criticality that self-reflexively confronts the more difficult dimensions of these art practices. The opening chapter analyses and disrupts a selection of influential …
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Finding the Rainbow World: Transnational Queer Networks and Literary Translation in Cold War Japan
… constitutive relationship between transnational queer subcultures and networks of literary translation in Japan from the 1940s to the 1970s. In contrast to much of the English-speaking world, post-World War II Japan was relatively tolerant towards sexual minorities, particularly during the 1950s …
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Erotics Of Education: Queering Children In Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Boarding Schools
This dissertation explores productions of queer childhood in boarding schools established for marginalized populations in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries in North America: Native American boarding schools, reform schools, schools for children with disabilities, and African American …
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Examining the particular, illuminating the singular: Gender, sexuality and desire in the lives and works of Marianne Moore and Bryher
… have been absorbed into the discourse of both queer theory and feminist theory. However, Moore and Bryher are among a group of women who actively refrained from identifying themselves according to terminology indicative of sexual desire and gender identification. This has complicated scholarly …
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A Different Shade of Grey: Intimacies of Older Filipino Gay Men in Canada
… as bakla, which is the Filipino term for queer or non-normative gender and sexual identity, practices, and performances. I specifically investigated how older bakla engage and express their intimacies with the three significant groups of people in their lives, namely, their sexual partner, …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
… expands upon the vibrant field of medieval queer studies by considering literary instances of medieval sexual power play via theory on contemporary BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism). It begins with a chapter outlining the history and theory of …
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Acts of Belonging: Perceptions of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women in Germany
… with one another. My particular case is that of "queer" women of Turkish descent in Germany with Berlin as my main study site.</p> <p>These people embody what is considered to be an oxymoron: being queer yet also Turkish, being a lesbian yet having a Muslim background, being of immigrant origin …
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The Compressed Modernity of Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan: Digital Activism, Human Rights Discourse, and Intertwined Sexual, Political and National Identities
… same-sex marriage. Remarkably, the Taiwanese queer movement achieved the goal of marriage equality in only 30 years, with the first <em>tongzhi</em> (<em>同志</em>) activist group organized in 1990. Compared to Euro-American social movements, Taiwanese <em>tongzhi</em> activism has experienced a …
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Raw Feelings: Ecologies of Race and Sexuality in Contemporary American Literature
… Drawing on phenomenology, affect theory, and queer studies, I argue that these moments of interspecies comparison enable characters to reclaim the truth content of their perceptions by new means. I contextualize how this contemporary literature, from queer, trans, Latinx, African American, and …
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Personal Touches, Public Legacies: An Ethnography of LGBT Libraries and Archives
… and, a temporary, autonomous home library with a queer mandate (the STAG Library). This study puts feminist, LGBT and queer studies in dialogue with archival studies and library and information studies (LIS). The chapters are organized by overarching themes associated with information …
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Examining Stage Theories and the Predisposition to Lead within the Homosexual Community
… by future researchers in the area of gay/queer studies.
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Indoctrination in education: Offering an alternative conception
… values and beliefs (e.g., race relations, queer studies, and feminist studies) are particularly vulnerable to the charge of indoctrination. This allegation is political rather than scholarly and it is not clear what precisely teachers of such subjects are being accused of doing or trying to …
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Queer Teachers in Catholic Schools: Cosmic Perceptions of an Easter People
<p>Queer-teacher lives aren’t easy! They experience isolation and bifurcation of their lives on a daily basis. How much more difficult must life be for these teachers in the theologically heteronormative context of the Catholic school? Yet, these teachers remain educators in these institutions, …
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