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Ruan, Fang-fu, and Yung-mei Tsai. "Male Homosexuality in Traditional Chinese Literature." Journal of Homosexuality 14, no. 3-4 (December 16, 1987): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j082v14n03_02.
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Hadeed, Khalid. "HOMOSEXUALITY AND EPISTEMIC CLOSURE IN MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE." International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, no. 2 (January 3, 2013): 271–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743812001638.
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AbstractIn this paper I argue that representations of homosexuality in modern Arabic literature have tended to isolate it and contain its threat through a conceptual strai(gh)tjacket that I term “epistemic closure.” I begin by analyzing Saʿd Allah Wannus's playTuqus al-Isharat wa-l-Tahawwulatas an essentialist paradigm of closure, where a language of interiority and essence identifies male homosexuality with passivity and femininity, subordinated a priori to a sexually and socially dominant masculinity. Then, I examine ʿAlaʾ al-Aswani's novelʿImarat Yaʿqubyanas a constructionist example of the same closure, in which homosexuality is explained through a narrative of abnormal development that circumscribes its diffuse potential. Finally, I read Huda Barakat'sSayyidi wa-Habibias a “queer” novel that links homosexuality to the continuum of male homosocial desire, thereby disrupting the normative distribution of center and margin and suggesting a way out of the epistemic closure imposed on homosexuality.
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Roman, David, and John M. Clum. "Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama." American Literature 65, no. 4 (December 1993): 823. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927330.
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Bovan, James, and Robert J. Craig. "Validity of Projective Drawing Indices of Male Homosexuality." Psychological Reports 90, no. 1 (February 2002): 175–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2002.90.1.175.
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We investigated the hypothesis that certain signs in the Draw-A-Person projective technique reflect male homosexuality. Human figure drawings from 88 gay and 88 heterosexual men, with no clinical psychological symptoms, were submitted to trained raters who were blind to the purpose of this research. The raters independently judged whether 21 signs, previously referenced in the literature as suggestive of male homosexuality, were present in the figure drawings. Only two signs, hair and hips, differentiated between groups. Results were interpreted in the light of changing social attitudes towards homosexuals and methodological problems of prior studies.
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Dolan, Jill, John Clum, Martha Gever, John Greyson, Pratibha Parmar, David Savran, Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin. "Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama." Theatre Journal 47, no. 2 (May 1995): 313. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3208500.
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Boney, Bradley, John M. Clum, and David Savran. "Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama." TDR (1988-) 38, no. 3 (1994): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1146389.
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Zhang, Wanrong. "The Daoist Art of the Bedchamber of Male Homosexuality in Ming and Qing Literature." Religions 15, no. 7 (July 12, 2024): 841. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15070841.
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The Daoist art of the bedchamber (fangzhong shu 房中術) constitutes a form of cultivation practice with the objective of promoting health and longevity through sexual techniques, generally applied within heterosexual contexts. However, with the evolution of male homosexuality culture during the Ming and Qing dynasties, depictions of the art of the bedchamber related to male homosexuality emerged in the literature of that era. This art was imaginatively traced back to Laozi and his disciple Yin Xi 尹喜. The sources explained the beneficial outcomes of these techniques by referring to classical Chinese cosmology: underage males were considered to have yin energy in their bodies, a condition similar to that in females, aligning with the fundamental principles of the heterosexual art of the bedchamber. Serving as a religious interpretation of emerging cultural trends rather than representing a new cultivation technique, this fictive art legitimizes homosexual practices among males, particularly those adhering to Daoism.
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Monterrubio, Carlos. "Tourism and male homosexual identities: directions for sociocultural research." Tourism Review 74, no. 5 (November 4, 2019): 1058–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-08-2017-0125.
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Purpose This paper aims to offer a critical review of the existing research on the relationships between tourism and male homosexual identities and, based on a sociocultural perspective, suggestions for specific directions in future research. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on a review of the literature that focuses on two independent yet intersecting topics: tourism and homosexuality and identity formation processes. Findings Specific directions for future research are offered regarding the role that tourism plays in homosexual identity development. The proposed paths for future research include the tangible contributions of tourism to the stages of homosexual tourists’ identity development and the (re)construction, negotiation and globalisation of homosexual and queer identities through tourists’ cultural interactions. Two further suggested directions are the significance of tourism for non-Western homosexual tourists and tourism’s impacts on local homosexual identities. Research limitations/implications This study is based solely on the existing literature on male homosexuality and mostly on studies published in English. Originality/value The research included a critical analysis of the commonly assumed significance of tourism in homosexual identity formation. The results provide directions for future empirical research and calls for a solid theoretical foundation that allows researchers to demonstrate, understand and explain how tourism contributes to gay and queer identities.
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Wu, H. Laura. "THROUGH THE PRISM OF MALE WRITING: REPRESENTATION OF LESBIAN LOVE IN MING-QING LITERATURE." NAN NÜ 4, no. 1 (2002): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852602100402314.
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AbstractRepresentation of lesbian relations in Ming-Qing vernacular literature is foremost a male discourse. A close look into this discourse will help gauge the contemporary social stance, especially the male stance, towards lesbianism. This paper examines textual strategies and the narrative norm of portraying lesbian love and sex in twelve Ming-Qing texts. The normative pattern extracted from these texts suggests a consensus in the male position that favors suppression of lesbianism via trivializing or heterosexualizing passions and romance between women. Male writing on lesbianism thus seems to function as containment of homosexuality for the benefit of the institutions of heterosexual sex and marriage.
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Williams, James S., and Christopher Robinson. "Scandal in the Ink: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century French Literature." Modern Language Review 92, no. 1 (January 1997): 209. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3734753.
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CLEMINSON, RICHARD. "Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Spain: Signposts for a Sociological Analysis." Paragraph 22, no. 1 (March 1999): 35–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.1999.22.1.35.
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Hewett, Greg. "Revealing "The Torso": Robert Duncan and the Process of Signifying Male Homosexuality." Contemporary Literature 35, no. 3 (1994): 522. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208694.
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Crapo, Richley H. "Factors in the Cross-Cultural Patterning of Male Homosexuality: A Reappraisal of the Literature." Cross-Cultural Research 29, no. 2 (May 1995): 178–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/106939719502900204.
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Salti, Ramzi. "A Different Leader of Men: Yusuf Idris against Arab Concepts of Male Homosexuality." World Literature Today 75, no. 2 (2001): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40156524.
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Gauram, Bedse Sunita, and M. D. Dugaje. "Representation of LGBTQIA in Bollywood Films." Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities 4, no. 2 (April 27, 2024): 145–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.55544/ijrah.4.2.24.
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India produces more Hindi films than any other country. Film portrayals of society mirror that culture, which in turn shapes social attitudes. Hindi film, also referred to as Bollywood, exhibits strong societal roots. The Delhi High Court authorized homosexual behavior in the last ten years, but the Supreme Court later declared it to be unlawful. These modifications mirror modifications in social views. In this paper, we focus on how homosexuality is portrayed in Hindi films in relation to social attitudes about both male and female homosexuality. In India, cultural and social values and attitudes towards sexuality have historically been positive. However, during the 200 years of British colonial rule, these values and attitudes towards homosexuality and homosexual men and women became extremely negative and even punishable, in line with the prevalent Victorian views on sex and sexual activity. The literature has identified and documented several sexual descriptions and identities. In this essay, we discuss a tiny number of Hindi movies that deal with homosexuality. These representations have generally been unfavorable. We discuss the reasons why this would be the case as well as the effect that these portrayals might have on viewers.
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Cohn,, Samuel K. "Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence.Michael Rocke." Speculum 74, no. 2 (April 1999): 481–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2887117.
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Schleiner, Winfried. "Le feu caché: Homosocial Bonds Between Women in a Renaissance Romance." Renaissance Quarterly 45, no. 2 (1992): 293–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2862750.
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With all the insights recent works on the history of homosexuality and culture have given us, the best, Alan Bray's Homosexuality in Renaissance England and Eve K. Sedgwick's Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, have also made us aware of what we do not know of earlier periods. While some areas of the tabooed subject will forever be closed to us, others are still amenable to patient labor in the vineyard of scholarship. My present focus is on the three final volumes of what in its French edition has come to be called the Amadis de Gaule, probably the most monumental (twenty-one volumes) and popular romance in the Renaissance. Strictly speaking, only the first four volumes, the ones Don Quixote's curate agreed to preserve for their literary merit, are the Amadis de Gaule; the other volumes are continuations by other hands.
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mihyun Gil. "Meaning of death in literature Tanizaki ‒To double suicide of male-female relationships from homosexuality‒." Japanese Modern Association of Korea ll, no. 42 (November 2013): 269–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.16979/jmak..42.201311.269.
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PRATT, M. J. O. "Review. Scandal in the Ink: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twelfth-Century French Literature. Robinson, Christopher." French Studies 52, no. 4 (October 1, 1998): 482. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/52.4.482.
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Heng, K. "35. Models that change: The study of gay identity development." Clinical & Investigative Medicine 30, no. 4 (August 1, 2007): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v30i4.2795.
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Since the declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in 1974, a large number of models of gay identity development have been proposed in the literature. This is unique because for the first time, more attention was paid to the process of developing a gay identity rather than theorizing about the etiologies of homosexuality. This paper reviews the changes in thought found in the literature describing how one comes to develop a gay identity.
For the marginalized, identity development is generally described against a backdrop of stigma. Fortunately, our current society is very different from the hostile world that surrounded the APA in 1974: homosexuality is more tolerated and accepted, laws are less discriminatory, and gay role models are more abundant and accessible. As society has evolved, so too have its descriptive models. Shame and reluctance are found in Plumer’s (1975) and Lee’s (1977) models. Pride and activism appear in Hencken and O’Dowd’s (1977) and Cass’ (1979) models. Troiden (1989) mentions the fear of AIDS in his writings. Alderson’s (1998) model reflects a climate where religion, friends, and society can be catalysts in developing a positive identity. Taken together, these models are like time capsules containing clues as to the social conditions of the time.
As the rate of social evolution accelerates, it is doubtful that any model regarding marginalized individuals will ever become definitive. For the case of homosexuality, if and when its stigma is removed, then the defining feature of gay identity development is also removed. It is possible that in its place will be a general model of sexual identity development, where homosexual and heterosexual paths diverge innocently and quietly in a society that does not value one over the other.
Alderson K. The ecological model of gay male identity. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 2003; 12(2):75-85.
Cass V. Homosexual identity formation: A theoretical model. Journal of Homosexuality 1979; 4(3):219-35.
Troiden R. The formation of homosexual identities. Journal of Homosexuality 1989; 17(1/2):43-73.
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Taddeo, Julie Anne. "Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain,1861–1913, by Sean Brady." Victorian Studies 49, no. 4 (July 2007): 742–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/vic.2007.49.4.742.
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Chang, Ivy I.-chu. "Queer Politics, Sexual Anarchism, and Nationalism: The Chinese Male Mother and the Queer Family in He Is My Wife, He Is My Mother." TDR/The Drama Review 58, no. 1 (March 2014): 89–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00329.
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Shuttling queerly across multiple temporalities, Chou Katherine Hui-ling's drama depicts a romance between You Ruilang, a self-castrated female impersonator, and Xu Jifang. The dramaturgy of gender transitivity intertwines sexual identity and nationalism, making palpable the homosexuality and homosociality that occurs between homophobia and homophilia.
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Falkof, Nicky. "Sex and the Devil: Homosexuality, Satanism, and Moral Panic in Late Apartheid South Africa." Men and Masculinities 22, no. 2 (May 27, 2018): 273–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x18774097.
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This article discusses the discursive and narrative intersections between two moral panics that appeared in the white South African press in the last years of apartheid: the first around the claimed danger posed by white male homosexuals, the second around the alleged incursion of a criminal cult of white Satanists. This connection was sometimes implicit, when the rhetoric attached to one was repeated with reference to the other, and sometimes explicit, when journalists and moral entrepreneurs conflated the two in public dialogue. Both Satanists and gay white men were characterized as indulging in abnormal practices that were dangerous to the health of the nation, using a long-standing colonial metaphor of sanitation and hygiene. I argue that fears of homosexuality and beliefs in Satanism operated as social control measures for disciplining potentially unruly groups whose sexual or personal practices were not admissible within apartheid’s injunctions on homogenous conformity among whites. The connection between homosexuality and Satanism, like the connection between homosexuality and communism, served to pathologize whites whose disobedient bodies and beliefs were considered treacherous.
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Taberner, Stuart. "The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature by Gary Schmidt (review)." Modern Language Review 100, no. 4 (October 2005): 1155–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2005.0344.
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Adriaens, Pieter R., and Andreas De Block. "Of Maybugs and Men: A History of Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 75, no. 2 (September 2023): 131–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.56315/pscf9-23adriaens.
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OF MAYBUGS AND MEN: A History of Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality by Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 246 pages. Hardcover; $105.00. ISBN: 9780226822426. Paperback; $32.50. ISBN: 9780226822440. Electronic; $31.99. ISBN: 9780226822433. *Pieter Adriaens and Andreas De Block offer a substantive analysis of the science of sexual orientation as it relates to male homosexuality. As a psychologist who has been involved in research1 in the areas of sexual orientation and sexual identity, I found the concepts in the book helpful in thinking through the evidence for what I believe and why. For example, although I have critiqued animal models as inadequate to explain the complexities of human sexual orientation and behavior, Adriaens and De Block challenge the reader to think more deeply about such a response and how it matches up with existing theories and the scientific support for each theory. They are even handed and largely dispassionate in their accounting of both theories and evidence to support various theories. *The authors note in the introduction that the book will be about male homosexuality rather than homosexuality in general; that is, they purposefully exclude female homosexuality as it has been far less attended to in the scientific literature and what is known suggests female homosexuality appears to be different than male homosexuality in important ways.2 The introduction also frames the goals of the authors: speaking of homosexuality, to "increase its familiarity" and, by so doing, "reduce homonegativity" (p. 15). Interestingly, the word "homonegativity" is frequently used by the authors throughout the book although, surprisingly, not as carefully defined as many other terms. The authors prefer the term to "homophobia," which they view as too clinical or psychiatric. Homonegativity captures other negative emotions apart from fear, "such as disgust and anger" (p. 196). This is perhaps a small point, but I find the term too imprecise and frequently wielded against any formed judgment about what is morally impermissible behavior. *Chapter one, "Not by Genes and Hormones Alone," addresses the question of innateness. Psychologists such as myself tend to be rather casual in their use of terms like "innate" and the authors help all of us here by defining terms and examining key findings related to the etiology of homosexual orientation. They are measured and judicious in their treatment of twin studies, direct genetic evidence, the maternal immune hypothesis, and prenatal hormonal exposure. They conclude that male "homosexuality is at least somewhat heritable and somewhat canalized" (p. 41). Indeed, the complexity of the research here leads the authors to conclude that no one theory will account for the variety of experiences even among male homosexuals that exist today, let alone expressions noted throughout history and across cultures. I could not agree more with this conclusion. *Christians may wonder about other theories of etiology that are popular mostly in conventionally religious communities, such as traumatic experiences (e.g., childhood sexual abuse) or the sexualization of emotional deprivations due to a failure to identify with one's same-sex parent. These theories are not directly engaged and, while Freud is discussed, the emphasis in this chapter is on the biological bases of homosexuality, which is where so much of science is today and with good reason; there is insufficient scientific support for these other theories and little interest in psychopathology-based accounts of homosexuality. The authors are more interested in examining the broader essentialist versus constructivist debate and whether or to what extent biological data inform that debate. *Chapter two, "Sham Matings and Other Shenanigans," addresses research on animal homosexual behavior. This chapter content speaks to the title of the book, as the sexual behavior of maybugs, dolphins, sheep, and many other animals is discussed. As I mentioned above, I have been rather dismissive of animal research, but the authors present a more comprehensive and compelling case for animal models that at least has to be engaged and cannot be simply dismissed as irrelevant. I think ultimately the Christian does not look at animal behaviors as being sufficiently complex to be analogous to human sexuality, orientation, identity, and behavior, but there is more research and more thought behind the research; it is important to be familiar with this research for those who work in this area. *Chapter three, "Beyond the Paradox," looks at evolutionary theory and homosexuality. Evolutionary theory is another topic that many Christians might not find particularly compelling when it comes to thinking about sexual orientation. They might be more likely to simply disregard modern homosexuality as largely incompatible with evolutionary theory. This chapter challenges such a maneuver and, again, invites the reader to consider how evolutionary theory may provide a reasonable account of modern male homosexuality. *Chapter four, "Values, Facts, and Disorders," considers the relationship between homosexuality and psychiatric nosology. This was a helpful chapter that provides the reader with more of the history and cultural context out of which homosexuality was viewed as a disorder and how it was viewed prior to that--from crime to disorder, from behavior to instinct--and how views of heredity and other important concepts initially played into early and developing conceptualizations. This chapter also briefly addresses the question of reorientation or conversion therapy. *There is also an epilogue that raises the question of whether there are risks associated with future research on the etiology of sexual orientation. Such questions are tied to prevention and to some extent conversion or reorientation. Interestingly, the mainstream LGBTQ+ community and more conservative Christian communities might actually have a superordinate goal, to not screen or select in utero for sexual orientation preferences because of the contemporary Christian commitment to valuing the imago Dei in all persons from conception. The epilogue surprised me the most because it came across as outside of the scope of what the authors had been addressing in the history and philosophy of science. But, again, it was well considered and thoughtful. The authors concluded that the risks should be managed in a way that protects the LGBTQ+ community but also does not preclude such research from taking place. The authors are more concerned with the "morally questionable biases" (p. 191) behind the research. Again, such a statement does not make an argument for ethical conclusions about homosexual behavior, nor does it engage formed judgments that reach conclusions other than those of the authors. *Christians interested in the history and philosophy of science related to male homosexuality will not be disappointed by this book. It is in depth and even handed in its treatment of research and competing theories. I would not describe it as anti-religious in its presentation of ideas and historical context. In fact, the authors do not really engage religion as such; rather, they engage some of the ideas derived from or contemporaneous with religious thought at the time, particularly if those thoughts were evident in science, but, again, they do so in a measured way. They primarily engage arguments and the conclusions derived within science (e.g., genetics, zoology, psychiatry) itself. *Notes *1M. A. Yarhouse and D. C. Haldeman, "Introduction to Special Section on Current Advances in the Intersection of Religiousness/Spirituality and LGBTQ+ Studies," [Editorial], Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 13, no. 3 (2021): 255-56, https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000438; and M. A. Yarhouse et al., Listening to Sexual Minorities: A Study of Faith and Sexuality on Christian College Campuses (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press Academic, 2018). *2See W. H. James, "Biological and Psychosocial Determinants of Male and Female Human Sexual Orientation," Journal of Biosocial Science 37, no. 5 (2005): 555-67, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932004007059. *Reviewed by Mark A. Yarhouse, Dr. Arthur P. Rech & Mrs. Jean May Rech Professor of Psychology; and Director, Sexual & Gender Identity Institute, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187.
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Curopos, Fernando. "La lesbienne fin-de-siècle : une fiction portugaise." Moderna Språk 112, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 47–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v112i2.7678.
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The figure of the lesbian has haunted erotic and pornographic literature long before homosexuality was ‘‘invented’’ (Foucault) by psychiatric medicine in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.This paper deals with the representation of the “lesbian” in Portuguese fin-de-siècle literature. Those lesbians, created by and intended for a male audience, are the result and the product of a ‘‘straight mind’’ (Wittig) that fantasizes the relations between women while obliterating reality: the possibility of a true love between women. Nevertheless, at the turn of the century, some of them will come out the closet, more or less forced, giving a ‘‘face’’ to the invisible Portuguese lesbian.
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Jackowiak, Adrianna. "Poetyka (nie)wyrażalnego pożądania, czyli zarys historii powie- ści gejowskiej w Polsce na tle socjologiczno-kulturowym." Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, no. 10 (January 1, 2014): 169–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/seg.2014.10.9.
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The aim of the paper is to show the history of Polish gay novel and explain the very term. However, the essence of the research problem is not the history itself, but drawing attention to the need of adopting a multidimensional perspective in the deliberations concerning homosexuality in general (including gay novel). An interdisciplinary approach to the issue enables one to make observations concerning the impact of social and political realities on literature, while at the same time to analyse a work of art as a statement in public debate on homosexuality and homosexuals.
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Sarfati, Liora. "Healing through Gender Inversion in Korean Possession Trance Rituals." TDR/The Drama Review 64, no. 3 (September 2020): 16–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00940.
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Korean shamanism ( musok) considers problems of physical, social, and mental health to be a result of supernatural intervention. The unique position of male practitioners who become healers within a female-dominated sphere is especially telling as they perform cross-gender behavior that is perceived as related to homosexuality, which is stigmatized in Korea and often labeled as a “mental illness.” In contrast, musok frames these behaviors as responses to demands from the spirit world.
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Willbern, David. "The Power of the Dog : Whose Gaze? Reading Savage's Novel, Watching Campion's Film." American Imago 80, no. 4 (December 2023): 805–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aim.2023.a918112.
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Abstract: The chapter compares and critiques two versions of one story: the original novel and its cinematic treatment over 50 years later. It briefly reviews changes in clinical and social ideas about gender and sexuality, especially homosexuality, during the 20th and 21st centuries. Then it addresses theoretical differences between the genres of text and film, and the idea of the "male gaze." Through close readings of the novel and the film, it demonstrates energies and tensions between concepts of male and female, gay and straight.
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MacDonald, Cheryl A. "Insert Name of Openly Gay Hockey Player Here: Attitudes Towards Homosexuality Among Canadian Male Major Midget AAA Ice Hockey Players." Sociology of Sport Journal 35, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 347–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2017-0133.
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This article examines attitudes towards homosexuality among male Major Midget AAA ice hockey players in Canada. Qualitative and quantitative surveys, interviews, and a social media content analysis were used to identify and analyze the ways in which the players perceive sexual orientation in a hockey context. This level presents a unique opportunity for investigation because the players, typically between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, find themselves at the intersection of a generation that is relatively inclusive of the queer community and a sport that can be said to encourage heterosexism. Informed by theories of masculinity and sport, the study situates itself within a body of literature that is divided regarding the current status of homophobia in sport.
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Kobialka, Michal. "Words and Bodies: A Discourse on Male Sexuality in Late Eighteenth-Century English Representational Practices." Theatre Research International 28, no. 1 (February 17, 2003): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883303000117.
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In 1772, William Kenrick published Love in the Suds, a direct attack on David Garrick. In 1776, Humphrey Nettle [William Jackson] published Sodom and Onan, a satire against Samuel Foote. Both of these texts make explicit charges of homosexuality against the two men. Why were these two actors singled out at this particular moment: serendipity or a new mechanism of power? An examination, thus, is required, of the representational practices operating within and without theatre, through which accepted sexual practices and new forms of personhood were normalized and put into discourse in late eighteenth-century London. The fact that this was to be achieved by placing actor's image and actor's body, occupying an ambiguous social position, under close scrutiny, points to a new economy in performing cultural and societal norms.
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Cordiano, Alessandra. "The Sex of the Body Politic: Questioning the Legal Constraints on Genderism between Law and Literature." Pólemos 12, no. 1 (March 26, 2018): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pol-2018-0002.
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Abstract The acknowledgement of the concept of gender identity is a somewhat recent conquest that has come about thanks mainly to the accomplishments of science and modern technology. The Italian system outlines the generally dominant judicial categories and gives only a partial idea of the historical and judicial evolution of the story of gender. History shows that past societies were more tolerant, or simply more accepting of issues of sexuality. Their more relaxed attitude was reflected in culture and literature and in their more open approach towards matters regarding homosexuality, transsexuality, intersexuality and even transvestism. But it was with Shakespeare that the supremacy of heterosexuality and the sexual canons of the dominant culture saw a major shake-up. Shakespeare used devices like the feminization of the male and women playing male parts as narrative pretexts to comment on themes such as the rivalry between the sexes in the contention for power, conflicts that give rise to a symbiosis between genders and disfigurements of the body that overturn the social order that is shaped by gender binary.
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Wolf, Benedikt. "Homophobia and Antisemitism in Otto Julius Bierbaum’s Prinz Kuckuck (1907/08)." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 57, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 97–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/seminar.57.2.1.
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Starting from existing scholarship on the relationship among masculinity, sexuality, and Jewishness in the German-language cultural sphere, this article analyzes the connection between antisemitism and homophobia in Otto Julius Bierbaum’s fin-de-siècle novel Prinz Kuckuck. By tracing the respective paths of the Jewish protagonist and his male homosexual counterpart, the article elaborates on the specific versions of Jewishness and male homosexuality that Bierbaum’s novel creates. It can be shown that the novel exposes both the Jewish and the homosexual character as deficient and harmful. The novel, however, does not restrict itself to mere parallelization but establishes an intrinsic connection between the Jewish and the male homosexual character by integrating homosexual codes into the Jew’s “parasitic” repertoire. The article concludes by offering an explanation of this connection that draws on Moishe Postone’s critique of modern antisemitism. Antisemitism and homophobia are shown as two complementary and intrinsically connected ways of dealing with two dimensions of the experience of modernity: capitalism and social contingency.
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Souza, Daniel Cerdeira de, Fernanda Sousa Ferreira, and Ingrid Mesquita Rodrigues. "MASCULINIDADES NA ESCOLA: REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA DA LITERATURA." Colloquim Agrariae 19, no. 1 (September 29, 2023): 287–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.5747/ch.2022.v19.h563.
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The objective of this study was to analyze the literature published in the format of scientific articles between 2015-2022 on masculinities in the school context. Methodologically, the study consists of an integrative literature review, with a universe of 51 articles. The data were descriptively analyzed using an instrument called 'IR protocol' and later the findings were submitted to the content analysis procedure. As a result, it was possible to construct seven categories: 1) Masculinity performativity at school; 2) Teachers and the normalization of masculinities; 3) Male teachers; 4) Black masculinities at school; 5) Violence in schools and masculinities; 6) Male homosexuality at school; 7) Alternative masculinities at school. The analysis suggests that the performativity of masculinity at school involves aspects such as virility, strength, body changes and behaviors such as encouraging the practice of physical exercise. At school, the reference of masculinity is the cis-heterosexual-white, and that the school tries to produce male subjects based on this pattern, without considering that situations of school violence are linked to this model. Male teachers are not well seen in early childhood education, as the place of care is gendered for women and black masculinities, as well as homosexual masculinities are rejected and neglected by the entire school body. Finally, it is concluded that it is necessary to build alternative masculinities at school, but this requires the commitment of various social/political actors.
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Máté, Ágnes. "Aeneas barátai a régi magyar irodalomban." Antikvitás & Reneszánsz, no. 2 (January 1, 2018): 153–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/antikren.2018.2.153-165.
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In this paper I discuss the appearance of four figures (Euryalus, Nisus, Achates and Palinurus) taken from Virgil’s Aeneid in old Hungarian poetry (16‒18th centuries). I list all places these minor heroes are mentioned in the corpus represented by Régi Magyar Költők Tára series. I argue that the four heroes’ limited appearance in old Hungarian poetry was due to two factors: metaphorical usage of their figures and tabooization of homosexuality. Moreover, all the places in whom a figure called Eurialus is mentioned in the old Hungarian corpus, allude to the male protagonist of Eneas Silvius Piccolomini’s love story, the Historia de duobus amantibus and to its early translation in Hungarian. In old Hungarian literature Eurialus denoted a heterosexual male hero rather than an eromenos of Greek love tradition.
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Langlands, Rebecca. "Latin Literature." Greece and Rome 60, no. 2 (September 16, 2013): 320–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383513000132.
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Among this latest batch of books to review are a number whose endeavour, very much to my own taste, is intellectual and cultural history through the study of Latin literature. Cream of the crop is Craig Williams’ study of Roman friendship. Admirers of Williams’ excellent Roman Homosexuality, recently reissued in second edition, will recognize the approach; this is a theoretically informed and meticulously argued work of cultural history that also shows fine appreciation of philological, linguistic, and literary issues. In Chapter 1 (Men and Women), Williams has a simple and compelling point to make: basing their idealization of friendship on our male-authored ancient literary texts (Cicero's De amicitia, Seneca's Letters), the great thinkers of Western civilization have asserted that ideal friendship is a man's game, and even that women are by and large incapable of real friendship, at the very least being excluded from the most interesting parts of friendship's history. As Williams shows, the epigraphic evidence tells a different story; here we can gain a new appreciation of friendships between women, and indeed between men and women. In its divergence from the well-trodden literary tradition, the epigraphic material opens up new ways of understanding the ancient world, but it can also be used to bring a fresh perspective to familiar literary texts, especially when one is as open-minded and attentive to linguistic nuance as Williams. Chapter 2 explores some of the key conceptual issues and themes related to the (vexed) distinction between amor and amicitia, and then in Chapter 3 Williams turns to the close reading of particular Latin texts, bringing his new interpretative framework to Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Propertius, Petronius’ Satyricon, and the letters of Cicero and of Fronto. The fourth and final chapter, ‘Friendship and the Grave’, turns again to the epigraphic evidence, and funerary inscriptions in particular, where friends are shown to play an important role in the commemoration of the dead, usually associated in the Western tradition with close family. Williams’ work showcases Classics as a vitally and productively interdisciplinary academic subject, where significant new readings can be achieved with the right methodologies and approach. He has some big claims to make about Roman society, of which ancient historians will certainly want to take note, but his fresh analysis of familiar literary texts is also highly illuminating and the book has many smaller-scale insights to offer as well.
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Gálvez Vidal, Alba María. "El discurso de la censura y la queermenéutica especulativa del silencio: la (in)visibilidad del safismo en la narrativa española de posguerra." Cartaphilus 21 (April 7, 2024): 11–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/cartaphilus.599071.
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The motivation of this work arises from the concern to tentatively explore a genealogy of the sapphic representation in post-war Spanish literature. For this purpose, we intend to carry out a case study with four selected novels (Oculto sendero by Elena Fortún, Nada by Carmen Laforet, La colmena by Camilo José Cela and Entre visillos by Carmen Martín Gaite) where we will analyze the safism that is more or less explicitly included in them, implementing, where necessary, a speculative queermeneutics of silence from which we will project the sapphic potential upon the interpretative gaps of the text. Likewise, in order to evince the possible disappearance of female homosexuality in the narrative during the dictatorship, a comparison will be made with the representation of male homosexuality in them. This will allow us to evaluate whether the disappearance of homosexuality in post-war Spanish narrative was generalized or, on the contrary, especially implacable towards safism. After the case studies, the results show an increasing tendency towards sapphic invisibility in the novels analyzed as we move into the midst of Francoist regime, a tendency that does not apply in the same way to male homosexuality. Given that the realistic novels of the Spanish postwar period can be interpreted almost as sociological capsules, the results confirm that, also in fiction, sapphism was non-existent or, often, it was hidden in the form of candid and innocent affection between girls. La motivación de este trabajo surge de la inquietud de explorar tentativamente una genealogía de la representación sáfica en la literatura española de posguerra. Para ello, pretendemos llevar a cabo un estudio de casos con cuatro novelas escogidas (Oculto sendero de Elena Fortún, Nada de Carmen Laforet, La colmena de Camilo José Cela y Entre visillos de Carmen Martín Gaite) donde se analice el safismo que de forma más o menos explícita se recoge en ellas, implementando, en los casos en los que sea necesario, una queermenéutica especulativa del silencio a partir de la cual se proyectará la potencialidad sáfica sobre los huecos interpretativos del texto. Asimismo, para evidenciar la posible desaparición de la homosexualidad femenina en la narrativa durante la dictadura, se establecerá una comparación de esta con la representación de la homosexualidad masculina que hay en ellas. Esto nos permitirá evaluar si la desaparición de la homosexualidad en la narrativa española de posguerra fue generalizada o, por el contrario, especialmente represiva hacia el safismo. Tras el estudio de casos, los resultados evidencian una tendencia cada vez mayor a la invisibilidad sáfica en las novelas analizadas conforme nos adentramos en pleno franquismo, tendencia que no se cumple del mismo modo con la homosexualidad masculina. Dado que las novelas realistas de la posguerra española se pueden interpretar casi como cápsulas sociológicas, los resultados vienen a constatar que, también en la ficción, el safismo estaba invisibilizado o, a menudo, se “armariaba” en forma de cándida e inocente afectividad entre muchachas.
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Sundaramoorthy, K. "Racism And Homosexuality: A Scrutiny Of James Baldwin’s Select Novels." Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology 24, no. 03 (March 10, 2022): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.51201/jusst/22/0235.
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James Baldwin was a novelist and social critic from the United States of America. He was an illegitimate black child. With his works, however, he became a well-known writer in bisexual and LGBT African American literature. Go Tell It on the Mountain, Another Country, Giovanni’s Room, Tell Me How Long the Train Been Gone, Just Above My Head, and If Beale Street Could Talk are among Baldwin’s best-known works. This research article aims to demonstrate how homosexuality is shown in James Baldwin’s works. In the first novel, Baldwin carefully investigated and camouflaged the homosexual issue through John, who was searching for his identity, whereas homosexuality was clearly presented in Giovanni’s Room. Because of the success of Giovanni’s Room as a gay and white novel, Baldwin decided to make homosexuality the central focus of his succeeding works. As a result, Baldwin paved the way for the next generation of homosexual authors to research and discusses LGBT themes in his writings. Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology ISSN: 1007-6735 Volume
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Fernández Carbajal, Alberto. "Countermemories of desire: Female homosexuality, “coming out” narratives, and British multiculturalism in Shamim Sarif’s I Can’t Think Straight." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, no. 2 (February 6, 2017): 255–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416686397.
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This article examines Shamim Sarif’s novel I Can’t Think Straight (2008), with occasional reference to the film of the same title, and in light of intersecting issues of ethnicity, religion, and sexuality in multicultural Britain. It argues that Sarif’s narratives, which depict the burgeoning romantic relationship between a British woman of Muslim heritage and a Christian Arab woman with ethnic links to Palestine, challenge the Western stereotypes of Muslim and Arab women as submissive and of their male counterparts as uniformly patriarchal, which have become all the more prevalent since 9/11. It also examines the collusion in British and cosmopolitan contexts, as evidenced in Sarif’s texts, of religious and Western medical discourses about homosexuality that denounce it as a disease. The article assesses these qualms as cultural values more closely aligned to social status and religious practice than to strict religious dogma. It also surmises that, despite Sarif’s configuration of same-sex desire in relation to the Western cultural model of “coming out”, which is shown as potentially homonormative, and in spite of the limited vistas offered by her narrow class perspective, her deployment of queer bodies helps to forge a clandestine countermemory challenging the contemporary Islamist erasure of female homosexuality. The article demonstrates that Sarif’s queer narratives act as a welcome antidote to the routine omission of the dissident perspectives of non-normative women of Muslim and Arabic ethnic heritage in dominant LGBTIQ discourses in the West, as well as in contemporary debates about British multiculturalism.
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Williams, Craig A. "Greek love at Rome." Classical Quarterly 45, no. 2 (December 1995): 517–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800043597.
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It has long been a commonly held belief among classicists that traditional Romans frowned upon male homosexuality and associated it with the influence of Greek culture. There have always been exceptions to this belief, but when Paul Veyne published the following remarks in his 1978 article ‘La famille et l'amour sous le hautempire romain’, his views were quite heterodox:Il est faux que l'amour ‘grec’ soit, à Rome, d'origine grecque: comme plus d'une société méditerranéenne de nos jours encore, Rome n'a jamais opposé l'amour des femmes à celui des garçons: elle a opposé l'activité à la passivité; être actif, c'est être un mâle, quel que soit le sexe du partenaire passif.
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Waites, Matthew. "Book Review: Brady, S. (2005). Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861—1913. London: Palgrave Macmillan." Men and Masculinities 11, no. 1 (October 2008): 123–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x07302287.
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王艾青, Aiqing Wang. "HOMOSEXUALITY AND SELF-IMPOSED EXILE IN THE SONG OF EVERLASTING SORROW." Folia linguistica et litteraria XII, no. 36 (September 2021): 9–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.36.2021.1.
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In this paper, I hermeneutically scrutinise a 1995 award-winning masterpiece The Song of Everlasting Sorrow and investigate its homosexual motif that lacks sufficient critical analysis. The author Wang Anyi features emotional and erotic entanglements between an archetypal yet extraordinary Shanghai woman Wang Qiyao and an array of male characters. I propound that apart from the protagonist’s unceasing melancholia, as illuminated by the title, the narrative also concerns lifelong dolorousness of two female supporting characters, viz. Wu Peizhen and Jiang Lili, both of whom establish bonds with Qiyao at puberty. I postulate that analogous to schoolgirls depicted by Ailing Zhang, Peizhen and Lili demonstrate same-sex adoration of Qiyao, yet disparate from spurious, proto- or quasi-homosexuality portrayed in Zhang’s writing, their zealousness and loyalty to Qiyao are not fugacious. Moreover, Peizhen’s perpetual animation is also inextricably intertwined with acrimony triggered by her failed pursuit of heterosexual romance with Qiyao’s committed admirer, leading to Peizhen’s unremitting self-mutilation and self-banishment.
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Robinson, Shirleene. "Queensland Labor and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer Policy." Queensland Review 18, no. 2 (2011): 207–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/qr.18.2.207.
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Since the Australian Labor Party came to power in Queensland in 1989, social attitudes towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) community have undergone significant change. In 1989, the decriminalisation of male-to-male homosexuality was the subject of intense debate, even within the ALP, which ultimately put forward the legislation. Today, policies have evolved considerably, with the Queensland ALP endorsing gay marriage and Anna Bligh, the current Queensland Labor Premier, releasing a YouTube video for the ‘It Gets Better’ campaign to give hope to LGBT youth experiencing harassment and perhaps contemplating suicide. During Labor's time in power, apart from the decriminalisation of male-to-male sexual activity, same-sex relationship laws have been reformed, altruistic surrogacy has been introduced and the presumption of lesbian parenthood has been extended. Some areas of LGBTIQ policy are still being contested, however, with debates surrounding civil unions, an equal age of consent and the existence of the ‘gay panic’ defence continuing. This article considers the progression and limits of these policies and areas of LGBTIQ reform that are still being disputed.
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Robles, Rebeca, Tania Real, and Geoffrey M. Reed. "Depathologizing Sexual Orientation and Transgender Identities in Psychiatric Classifications." Consortium Psychiatricum 2, no. 2 (May 25, 2021): 45–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/cp61.
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Introduction. This article presents the history and rationales of conceptualization and classification of homosexuality and transgender identity in both ICD and DSM. We review the efforts that have been made (and those that remain pending) to improve psychiatric classifications with new scientific knowledge, changing social attitudes and human rights standards.
Method. We conducted a literature search of the classification of homosexuality and transgender identity as mental disorders.
Result. We provide a historical description of these concepts in ICD and DSM, including fundamental points of disagreement as well as arguments that have been effective in achieving changes in both classifications.
Conclusions. Fundamental changes have been made in the International Classification of Diseases Eleventh Revision (ICD-11) in terms of the classification of sexual orientation and gender identity based on scientific evidence and the ICDs public health objectives. These changes might support the provision of accessible and high-quality healthcare services, and are responsive to the needs, experience and human rights of the populations involved.
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Duffy, John-Charles. "GAY-RELATED THEMES IN THE FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE." Victorian Literature and Culture 29, no. 2 (September 2001): 327–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150301002054.
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IT IS A CRITICAL COMMONPLACE that homosexuality — or, to use a more common term of the period, “male love” — appears as a theme in certain of Oscar Wilde’s works.1 It is also a critical commonplace that many Victorian readers were aware of this fact.2 Scant attention, however, has been given to homosexual themes in Wilde’s first book, his 1888 collection of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which he supplemented in 1891 with a second collection, A House of Pomegranates. The lack of critical attention is surprising, considering that the fairy tales not only mark the beginning of Wilde’s “reputation as an author” (Ellmann 299), but were written in the wake of his first homosexual experience — with Robert Ross in 1886 — a coincidence which gives us grounds to expect, or at least suspect, the presence of homosexual themes.3
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Kaplan, Kyle C. "Waiting for Someone to Argue With." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 135, no. 5 (October 2020): 1009–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.5.1009.
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While thumbing through Susan Sontag's copy of Theodor W. Adorno'sminima moralia, I found the stirrings of an argument. Sontag responded to Adorno's twenty-fourth fragment, “Tough Baby,” by writing “machismo ↓” next to the first line. Her annotations continue on the following page alongside Adorno's concluding remarks:In the end tough guys are truly effeminate ones, who need the weaklings as their victims in order not to admit that they are like them.Totalitarianism and homosexuality belong together.In its downfall the subject negates everything which is not of its own kind. The opposites of the strong man and the compliant youth merge inan order which asserts unalloyed the male principle of domination.In making all without expectation, even supposed subjects, its objects, this principle becomes totally passive, virtually feminine. (46)
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Lucas, Ian. "Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama. By John M. Clum. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Pp. 317. $35." Theatre Research International 18, no. 1 (1993): 75–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300017776.
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Shuter, William F. "The "Outing" of Walter Pater." Nineteenth-Century Literature 48, no. 4 (March 1, 1994): 480–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2933621.
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A subject that biographers and critics once avoided altogether or approached only with great circumspection, Pater's sexuality has become an explicit and even a major topic of recent Pater studies. The story of Pater's erotic relationship in 1874 with an Oxford undergraduate, though apparently known to some of his contemporaries, has only recently been reconstructed and documented, the fullest account being that of Billie Inman. And Pater's encoded sexuality has been made a central topic of critical discourse by Richard Dellamora, who has decoded several of Pater's texts using the method of gender criticism. To the degree that the conclusions of these studies rely on demonstration, they raise questions that are of as much interest as the conclusions themselves. These questions concern the nature of the available evidence, the manner in which the evidence is interpreted, and the suppositions that render one interpretation more persuasive that another. The case of Pater also tests a terminological distinction favored by Dellamora and other gender critics. Because all-male institutions have traditionally discouraged overtly sexual relationships between men, gender criticism distinguishes "homosociality" from "homosexuality" in order to oppose them. For Patter, however, the "homosocial" and the "homosexual" form a continuum that recalls the erotic sensibility of the Greeks he admired. It is therefore difficult to describe Pater's sexual temperament using such language. Probably the least unsatisfactory term would be "homoerotic." It is more inclusive than "homosexual," and as a verbal formation it has the advantage of being purely Greek.
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Hidalgo, Melissa M. "“He Was a Sissy, Really”." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 40, no. 1 (2015): 7–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/azt.2015.40.1.7.
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This essay argues for a queer rereading of José Antonio Villarreal’s classic Chicano novel, Pocho, by highlighting the role of “books” as a leitmotif that functions as a queering mechanism for protagonist Richard Rubio. In Pocho, books and all they signify code a spectrum of queer (“soft,” “ruined”) masculinity, from male effeminacy and emasculation to homosexuality and other non-heteronormative desires. I analyze how the narrative places Richard Rubio in a lineage of two queer masculine characters in the novel, René Soto and Joe Pete Manõel, demonstrating the queer continuities symbolized by and associated with the leitmotif of books. My analysis of Pocho seeks to intervene in current scholarly discussions about queer reading practices, gay Chicano and Latino literary production, and the limits of conventional categorization of literature. Ultimately, a queer analysis of Pocho reveals its uneasy, if not troubled,literary categorization as an otherwise normative and formative “first” canonical Chicano novel and bildungsroman, creating new possibilities for contemporary rereadings of such historic,canonical Chicano works.
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Ladenson, Elisabeth. "Proustian Nonsense: A Partial Taxonomy." Paragraph 45, no. 1 (March 2022): 22–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2022.0383.
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This article presents a catalogue of some of the ways in which Proust's novel fails to make sense. The major categories of non-sense examined here are: minor inconsistencies due to the unfinished quality of the work; chronological incoherences; and inconsistent distinctions between narrator and author, with particular attention to textual entailments of the differences between the author and his semi-autobiographical narrator in terms of homosexuality, Jewishness and snobbery.