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... analysis of “agency” as constructed at the crossroads of human beings and material culture. Seen as performed via materialisation through artefacts, as much as through a human being/doing, Jensen suggests a shift in ways of “ascribing and describing agency”. A critique of ideas of coherent identitie ...
... analysis of “agency” as constructed at the crossroads of human beings and material culture. Seen as performed via materialisation through artefacts, as much as through a human being/doing, Jensen suggests a shift in ways of “ascribing and describing agency”. A critique of ideas of coherent identitie ...
Sexuality and Sociality in Literary Productions, 1974-1997
... visibility at a time when such identity assertions were emergent and under threat. Problems of definition have also plagued lesbian literary criticism, where a range of approaches exists that are both fruitful and troubling. In Surpassing the Love of Men, Lillian Faderman defines lesbianism as “a re ...
... visibility at a time when such identity assertions were emergent and under threat. Problems of definition have also plagued lesbian literary criticism, where a range of approaches exists that are both fruitful and troubling. In Surpassing the Love of Men, Lillian Faderman defines lesbianism as “a re ...
The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism
... developed new ways of thinking sexuality’s relation to capital, and especially heteronormativity’s relation to capital, a development marked especially by a rich consideration of the ways in which this relation is mediated by a range of normalizing regimes and forms of social hierarchy, including th ...
... developed new ways of thinking sexuality’s relation to capital, and especially heteronormativity’s relation to capital, a development marked especially by a rich consideration of the ways in which this relation is mediated by a range of normalizing regimes and forms of social hierarchy, including th ...
masochism, sexual freedom, and radical democracy
... Flanagan is the author of The Pain Journal. (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2000). He and his partner Sheree Rose collaborated on a documentary film about Bob’s life entitled “Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist,” which won the special grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 199 ...
... Flanagan is the author of The Pain Journal. (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2000). He and his partner Sheree Rose collaborated on a documentary film about Bob’s life entitled “Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist,” which won the special grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 199 ...
Umbr(a): Sameness
... Homosexual desire is the ungeneratingungenerated terror of the family, because it produces itself without reproducing. Every homosexual must thus see himself as the end of the species, the termination of a process for which he is not responsible and which must stop at himself....The homosexual can ...
... Homosexual desire is the ungeneratingungenerated terror of the family, because it produces itself without reproducing. Every homosexual must thus see himself as the end of the species, the termination of a process for which he is not responsible and which must stop at himself....The homosexual can ...
Minority Stress, Gender Role Strain, and Visibility Management
... Real and Ideal Body Discrepancies We now have a picture of what men want their bodies to look like. It is also important to understand what their bodies actually look like compared to how they are perceived to look like. One of the most important components of studying ideal body image is understan ...
... Real and Ideal Body Discrepancies We now have a picture of what men want their bodies to look like. It is also important to understand what their bodies actually look like compared to how they are perceived to look like. One of the most important components of studying ideal body image is understan ...
Queer Hoover: Sex, Lies, and Political History
... groups uncovered by the ACLU, and printed a report that FBI agents had collected politicians’ underwear for the director’s blackmail files.5 Although many of these reports were initially only of interest to the gay community, they soon acquired a broader appeal. Mainstream politics itself changed d ...
... groups uncovered by the ACLU, and printed a report that FBI agents had collected politicians’ underwear for the director’s blackmail files.5 Although many of these reports were initially only of interest to the gay community, they soon acquired a broader appeal. Mainstream politics itself changed d ...
“Making it Work”: A Grounded Theory of How Mixed
... Ninety percent of adults will marry at some point in their lives (Cherlin, 2009). It has been estimated that there are two million mixed orientation marriages between a gay, lesbian, or bisexual person and a heterosexual person in the United States (Buxton, 2001). This estimate is conservative, and ...
... Ninety percent of adults will marry at some point in their lives (Cherlin, 2009). It has been estimated that there are two million mixed orientation marriages between a gay, lesbian, or bisexual person and a heterosexual person in the United States (Buxton, 2001). This estimate is conservative, and ...
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... Notwithstanding these arguments the Institute is firmly of the view that the law should be changed to allow same sex couples to be assessed as applicants for adoption in the case of local placement adoption and known child adoptions. The Institute is persuaded that this is in the best interests of c ...
... Notwithstanding these arguments the Institute is firmly of the view that the law should be changed to allow same sex couples to be assessed as applicants for adoption in the case of local placement adoption and known child adoptions. The Institute is persuaded that this is in the best interests of c ...
David Berry (Loughborough University, UK)
... explanation, perhaps too simple, was not to the liking of everybody.24 He was accused of dishonouring not only himself, but the whole of the left, by suggesting that one had to be a ‘pédé’ (queer) to be a socialist: “Thanks to me, people might have suspected all ‘leftists’ of siding with the labour ...
... explanation, perhaps too simple, was not to the liking of everybody.24 He was accused of dishonouring not only himself, but the whole of the left, by suggesting that one had to be a ‘pédé’ (queer) to be a socialist: “Thanks to me, people might have suspected all ‘leftists’ of siding with the labour ...
Problemset Title Chapter Quiz Introductory Text Question 1 Type
... Despite being a minority that has suffered the deprivation of civil rights as other inequalities, Blacks tend to be more hostile to homosexuals than Whites. Choose the accepted ...
... Despite being a minority that has suffered the deprivation of civil rights as other inequalities, Blacks tend to be more hostile to homosexuals than Whites. Choose the accepted ...
Policy against "homophobia"
... which discrimination is prohibited under Québec’s Charter of human rights and freedoms,1 the fight against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has led to the recognition of legal equality for the sexual minorities. In 2002, Québec created a new form of conjugal relationship—the civil u ...
... which discrimination is prohibited under Québec’s Charter of human rights and freedoms,1 the fight against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has led to the recognition of legal equality for the sexual minorities. In 2002, Québec created a new form of conjugal relationship—the civil u ...
Guidelines and Literature Review for
... clients in order to enable their inclusion in clinical practice at a high standard. They also aspire to engender better understanding of clients who may have suffered social exclusion and stigmatisation in order to reduce the possibility of this in the clinical arena. The guidelines reflect where ps ...
... clients in order to enable their inclusion in clinical practice at a high standard. They also aspire to engender better understanding of clients who may have suffered social exclusion and stigmatisation in order to reduce the possibility of this in the clinical arena. The guidelines reflect where ps ...
The Role of Gay Spaces for a Gay Destination: Gay Tourism in Gran
... the vocabulary follows. The term gay is normally used when denoting male homosexuals, however it is confusingly often used as an alternative to the term ‘homosexual’ to include ...
... the vocabulary follows. The term gay is normally used when denoting male homosexuals, however it is confusingly often used as an alternative to the term ‘homosexual’ to include ...
ARTICLE Subversive Friendships: Foucault on Homosexuality and
... Heterosexual romantic life brings an enormous array of norms into play: protocols for dating, guidelines for married life, norms that describe male and female roles, rules about how and why to show affection, and so on. Even where a relationship is unusual, as in Foucault’s example of age difference ...
... Heterosexual romantic life brings an enormous array of norms into play: protocols for dating, guidelines for married life, norms that describe male and female roles, rules about how and why to show affection, and so on. Even where a relationship is unusual, as in Foucault’s example of age difference ...
Factors Involved in the Development of a Bareback Identity
... infections by addressing what was assumed to be a general lack of information available to the general public regarding the transmission of HIV (Halkitis, Wilton & Drescher, 2005). AIDS and Public Policy Prevention Attempts Early attempts by organizations produced significant, but short term success ...
... infections by addressing what was assumed to be a general lack of information available to the general public regarding the transmission of HIV (Halkitis, Wilton & Drescher, 2005). AIDS and Public Policy Prevention Attempts Early attempts by organizations produced significant, but short term success ...
Rainer Bartel Social economic issues in sexual orientation – where
... subject matters, such as sexuality and sexual orientation. We continue by inquiring in the social economic dimensions of institutions and economic methodology as a particular kind of institution, with its conservative impact on the status quo in society. (2) In section 2, we take up the current disc ...
... subject matters, such as sexuality and sexual orientation. We continue by inquiring in the social economic dimensions of institutions and economic methodology as a particular kind of institution, with its conservative impact on the status quo in society. (2) In section 2, we take up the current disc ...
Doing It Together, The Gay Way: Queer Coupling in
... Here, Hacker characterizes heterosexual coupledom as a closed form, sealed into place and recognized by a number of private and public social customs (“law books,” “covenants”). By contrast, her representation of homosexual domestic coupling is fuzzier because it is a social form that “does not comp ...
... Here, Hacker characterizes heterosexual coupledom as a closed form, sealed into place and recognized by a number of private and public social customs (“law books,” “covenants”). By contrast, her representation of homosexual domestic coupling is fuzzier because it is a social form that “does not comp ...
A Multidimensional Assessment of Orthodox Jewish Attitudes
... tradition is unwelcome and shamed, both by the individuals themselves and by the Jewish community at large. Additionally, there is a fear of assimilation that may result from the integration of secular values and a shift from the traditional ways of Orthodox Judaism. In contrast to the future-orient ...
... tradition is unwelcome and shamed, both by the individuals themselves and by the Jewish community at large. Additionally, there is a fear of assimilation that may result from the integration of secular values and a shift from the traditional ways of Orthodox Judaism. In contrast to the future-orient ...
Attitudes Towards Homosexuality: A Literature Review
... towards homosexuality are more likely to be religious, politically conservative, and less well educated, and to have authoritarian personalities and traditional gender role beliefs. They are more likely to live outside metropolitan areas and in the South or Midwest of the United States. They are als ...
... towards homosexuality are more likely to be religious, politically conservative, and less well educated, and to have authoritarian personalities and traditional gender role beliefs. They are more likely to live outside metropolitan areas and in the South or Midwest of the United States. They are als ...
Pride and Prejudice: Employment Discrimination against Openly
... in the level of discrimination appears to reflect regional differences in attitudes and antidiscrimination laws. Second, employers who emphasized the importance of stereotypically male heterosexual traits were particularly likely to discriminate against openly gay men. Beyond these particular findin ...
... in the level of discrimination appears to reflect regional differences in attitudes and antidiscrimination laws. Second, employers who emphasized the importance of stereotypically male heterosexual traits were particularly likely to discriminate against openly gay men. Beyond these particular findin ...
Do Gays and Lesbians Want Children?
... • The question of current relationship type is flawed. The cohabitation category mentions living with a member of the opposite sex. It is not possible to determine how sexualminorities answered this question. • There are some sexual-minorities who are married. It may be that they consider themselves ...
... • The question of current relationship type is flawed. The cohabitation category mentions living with a member of the opposite sex. It is not possible to determine how sexualminorities answered this question. • There are some sexual-minorities who are married. It may be that they consider themselves ...
Sexual Dynamics in Mentoring Relationships
... potential catalyst for a relationship. Given that it has also been found that pursuit of similar workplace goals, performing similar tasks and the feeling of excitement when a project is successful can be contributory factors it is perhaps not surprising that romantic or sexualized relationships dev ...
... potential catalyst for a relationship. Given that it has also been found that pursuit of similar workplace goals, performing similar tasks and the feeling of excitement when a project is successful can be contributory factors it is perhaps not surprising that romantic or sexualized relationships dev ...
Dismantling the Wall: Bisexuality and the Possibilities of Sexual
... potency and exclusivity, as well as how definitions of sexual identity mask a great variety of sexual practices that do not fit neatly into either category. Bisexuality is one valuable way of accounting for and articulating the discrepancies between those people who call themselves heterosexual or h ...
... potency and exclusivity, as well as how definitions of sexual identity mask a great variety of sexual practices that do not fit neatly into either category. Bisexuality is one valuable way of accounting for and articulating the discrepancies between those people who call themselves heterosexual or h ...
Queering Indian Sociology
... dominance exercised in regulating ‘erotic’ aspects of human life is not generally considered as sociological subject matter even within feminist sociology. Maya Sharma’s (2006) writing on the plight of poor working class lesbian women in contemporary India constitutes a radical break and ought to be ...
... dominance exercised in regulating ‘erotic’ aspects of human life is not generally considered as sociological subject matter even within feminist sociology. Maya Sharma’s (2006) writing on the plight of poor working class lesbian women in contemporary India constitutes a radical break and ought to be ...