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Showing 1 to 20 of 393 for “"sexuality studies"”.
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SUFIMINISM: THE SEXUAL, THE SPIRITUAL, THE SELF
… as an epistemological approach to thinking about sexuality studies and reframing the relationship between Islam and sex. Existing scholarship on Sufism, Islam, and feminism tends to overrely on legal framings of sexuality and heavily exegetical engagements with religion, and offers too many …
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Vampire narratives: Looking at queer-centric experiences in comparison to hetero-centric norms in order to model a new queer vampiric experience
… and <em>Fledgling</em> using queer and sexuality studies frameworks to look at salient patterns in the texts. The project focuses on how gender performances take place in the text, what the performances mean, and what the implications of them are. In addition to gender performance, in …
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Narrative Justice Playmaking: A toolkit for transformative theatre
… research across Theatre and Performance Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Caribbean Studies, Women Gender and Sexuality Studies, English, Memory Studies, and Disability Studies. I explore how storytelling impacts people’s lives, realities, and experiences, and unpack the ways in which story …
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Storytending is a Verb! Activating Participatory Feminist Media Praxis Through Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities
… Habell-Pallán, professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, and Sonnet Retman, associate professor in American Ethnic Studies. The project brings together scholars, musicians, media-makers, performers, artists, and activists to explore the role of women and popular music in cultural scenes …
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53x+m³=Ø? (Sex+Me=No Result?): Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film
<p>This dissertation examines the concept of asexuality and a variety of representations of asexuality in literature, film, and popular media. I argue that asexuality, often defined as a "lack of desire or sexual attraction," challenges the notion that sexual object choice is always a central point …
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Individualism and Attitudes toward Homosexual, Premarital, Adolescent, and Extramarital Sexual Behaviors
… question from the frame of the intersection of sexuality studies with the study of deviance as these behaviors have been considered to fit normative, absolutists, statistical and/or reactive definitions of deviance. This research was informed by Hawdon's recent general model of deviant behavior. …
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Women's Studies Worldwide: Cartographies of Transnational Academic Feminism
This dissertation retells the history of women’s studies from a global perspective, challenging traditional U.S. and Eurocentric narratives about this emerging interdisciplinary field. Beginning with questions about why women’s, gender, and sexuality studies has incited backlash across a range of …
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Community of Counter-Conduct: Politics and Practices of LGBTQ Christian Activism in Evangelicalism
… at the intersections of American religious studies and gender and sexuality studies have broadened our understanding of the overlapping histories of faith communities and LGBTQ social movements in the US. Despite recent contributions to the history of LGBTQ activism in American religious …
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Kink in Flux: BDSM theory and sexual praxis
… with this, empirical researchers working in sexuality studies continue to show, contrary to the history of stigmatizing accounts in the history of clinical psychology, no evidence of increased pathology and, in some studies, better outcomes on measures of mental health.</p> <p>Given the …
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The Janissaries and their bedfellows: Masculinity and male homosexuality in early modern Ottoman Istanbul 1500-1826
… investigates the relationships between male homosexuality, social transgression and the construction of masculinities in the early modem Ottoman Empire. To this end, it primarily focuses on Ottoman conduct and advice literature, court chronicles, sumptuary regulations and state rulings related to …
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Disorganized Intimacy: Disability, Sexuality, and Social Life at a Disability Service Centre in Montreal, Quebec
… turn, shapes aspects of disabled life including sexuality, consent processes, employment, and housing. I argue that disability services deploy a regime of intimacy that buttresses a range of hierarchies and categories, ultimately (re)producing the very segregation, exclusion, and eugenic logics …
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Growing Up Tween: Femininity, Masculinity, And Coming Of Age
… heteronormative ideologies suggesting that heterosexuality is ideal, and therefore to appropriately perform dominant femininity and masculinity is to perform heterosexuality. In this dissertation, I expand gender and sexuality knowledge by bridging the two in a population where sexuality studies …
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Inner Dilemmas of LGBTQ+ Movements in Brazil: A Queer Intersectional Approach
… and political sciences, not only in gender and sexuality studies.
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Transcending Traditional Approaches to Sexuality Education: A Case Study in Communicating, Constructing, and Defining Sex-Positive Sexuality Education
… a new approach to sex education--sex-positive sexuality education (SPSE). A collective case study was completed on three organizations that utilize a sex-positive approach to sexuality education--Good Vibrations, Scarleteen.com, and The National Sexuality Resource Center's Summer Institute. …
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Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905
… this renewed interest and turns in gender and sexuality studies since the late 1990s. <em>Bricolage Propriety</em> attempts to revisit this period of literary production and to update how we think about this period after the emergence of queer-of-color critique, particularly the work of José …
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Towards a Cultural Geography of Queer Storytelling through Collective Biography
… brings together cultural geography, literary studies, and sexuality studies to establish a cultural geography of queer storytelling through collective biography which uncovers how these texts communicate knowledge, shape identities, create meaning and impact, and articulate cultural values. …
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Towards a Cultural Geography of Queer Storytelling through Collective Biography
… brings together cultural geography, literary studies, and sexuality studies to establish a cultural geography of queer storytelling through collective biography which uncovers how these texts communicate knowledge, shape identities, create meaning and impact, and articulate cultural values. …
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Final Report: Media Intern Position at CLAGS
… for the completion of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The capstone project consisted of an internship position at CLAGS as a media producer, director and editor. The Media Intern opportunity allowed me to create digital media by …
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Queering Submission: (Re)Framing Evangelical Wifely Submission through BDSM
… and is interconnected with theology, gender, and sexuality. The way in which evangelical women interpret and negotiate their positionalities in relation to submission is often perceived as paradoxical which is similar to outsider perspectives of those who are submissive within the framework of S/M …
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Often treated harshly: Girls and young women in 1957 Perth
This thesis takes inspiration from a submission by a Western Australian seventeen year old single relinquishing mother to the 2004 Senate Inquiry into the institutionalisation of children, Forgotten Australians. It researches various aspects of life for young women and teenage girls in Perth in …
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