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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"the closet"”.
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The Australian Football League and the closet
This thesis examines the complete absence of openly gay males from the ranksof the professional players in the Australian Football League (AFL). It seeks to explain this absence in the context of the modern gay rights movement. incontemporary Australian society. It compares and contrasts the …
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Learning, Living, and Leaving the Closet: Making Gay Identity Relational
Gay identity is inextricably tied to the metaphor of the closet. This tie is best exemplified by the act of "coming out of the closet," an act when a person discloses a gay identity to another, an act of self-identification and confession that others can motivate but never force, an act typically …
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Gender roles, homophobia, and the closet: Experiences of queer women
<p>The culture in which a woman is a part of sets expectations based on their gender. This paper explores how the relationship between prescribed gender roles, internalized homophobia, and coming out of the closet are related. A focus group of seven women who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, …
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Transgression in the closet: Gay academics’ experiences of heteronormativity in China
… decriminalised in China in 1997 and removed from the official list of mental disorders in 2001. However, it is still a social taboo and Chinese queer people face persistent discrimination from the authorities and the public. While international research has documented queer teachers’ workplace …
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"Sometimes You'Ll Feel Like An Outcast": Using Superman To Interrogate The Closet
Over the years, an increasing number of scholars have argued that a "coming out imperative" characterizes Western society, urging those who harbor hidden identities to make those identities visible for the greater good. A number of sources repeatedly remind queer-identified individuals, for …
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The closet door, the gateway to the self? : fashion, identity, and self-expression
This study explores the relationship between the decisions we make surrounding fashion, our sense of 'self,' and our attempts at self-expression through fashion. This thesis is based on the premise that material items and first impressions or appearances are important in our culture. Referring to …
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Remodeling the Closet: The Individual and Organizational Correlates of Workplace Sexual Identity Management
<p>The strategies by which sexual minority employees manage their sexual identities in the workplace have long been a subject of inquiry. Extant research has long recognized that these employees potentially engage in several different strategies for workplace sexual identity management (e.g., …
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Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World
… and transnational history reside at the core this thesis. Methodologically indebted to actor network theory, critical theorizations of counterpublics and the public sphere, and transnational historiography, the thesis develops four main arguments. First, far from a short-lived burst …
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Illuminating the Trauma of the Closet Among Sexual Minorities: A Cinematic-Phenomenological Study of Existential Rights
… is a phenomenological research study about the lived experience of being in the closet as a sexual minority. This study’s research findings are represented in two distinct but overlapping ways: a traditional written hermeneutic interpretation, and a short film called “Illuminate” which …
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Back in the Closet: A Queer-Modified Interpretive-Phenomenological Analysis of Gay Men Creating an Identity Through Clothing
<p>How one dresses comprises their personal style, which subsequently informs one’s orientation to the world. Clothing is a global practice that demarcates our experience of self, others, and the world; and—as we are swathed in clothing since birth—those experiences are primarily split among …
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Improving parts delivery through data aggregation, analysis, and consumption
… are topics of significant interest in the business and manufacturing communities. This research investigates the hypothesis that, if production floor managers consume properly analyzed data, then their ability to solve problems and prevent production system disruptions improves. This …
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Harry Partch: A Catalyst for Queer Compositionism
… as a queer expression of his epistemology of the closet (Sedgwick, 2008), asking whether this notion applies to what I have coined a queer compositionist stance in collaborative performance projects. Partch collaborated intimately with the human and nonhuman agents (Latour, 2007) that he …
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Truly An Awesome Spectacle: Gender Performativity And The Alienation Effect In Angels In America
… traditional gender dichotomies. In this thesis, I argue that Kushner has created a continuum of gender performativity to deconstruct these traditional gender dichotomies, thereby empowering the effeminate and disempowering the masculine. I closely examine Kushner's use of Brechtian and …
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The No No-Exit Closet: An Alternative to No-Exit Pathways
The focus of this dossier is my Masters Thesis project, which is titled The No No-Exit Closet. The No No-Exit Closet has been a project through which I have developed a heightened ethical awareness of how I consume, store, throw away, and reuse the materials that enter and exit my life. This thesis …
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Where Do I Belong?: Gender And/Or Sexual Minority Students And Leaders In International Schools
<p>The heteronormative ordering of schools poses challenges for gender and/or sexual minorities (GSM). GSM leaders in schools are challenged by decisions about whether to come out of the closet and the implications that these decisions can have for the leadership they enact and their career …
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The Futility of Conformity: The Danger of Gender Constructs In the <em>Sound and theFury</em>
This thesis focuses on William Faulkner's novel <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> and the role sexuality plays in Quentin Compson's construction of identity. I propose that Quentin is incapable of reconciling his potential homosexuality with the expectations his family, friends and elite Southern …
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Resilient Leadership: A case study about a gay man's journey of coming out and running for public office.
The purpose of this instrumental case study was to understand how the lived experiences of an openly gay male elected official living in the Midwest impacted his journey in running for public office. The aim of this study was to explore how sexual orientation impacted the journey to become a …
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“No One to Show Us the Way:” Assessing the Contemporary Relevance of the Gay Male Bildungsroman
<p>The gay male bildungsroman can trace its origins to E.M. Forster’s posthumously published <em>Maurice</em> (1971) and Edmund White’s <em>A Boy’s Own Story</em> (1982), among other examples. While nested under the umbrella category of the queer bildungsroman (and, more broadly, the …
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Blue Poets: Brilliant Poetry
… study of four poets and factors that affected their lives and livelihood. The term 'blue' refers to the melancholy experienced with depression, frequent or excessive oppressive circumstances, trauma, and the sadness associated with the blues as a musical form. Brilliant poetry may be …
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