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Malek, Elska Ray. "Running away with the concubine, lesbianism and Larissa Lai's When fox is a thousand." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58355.pdf.
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Steffensen, Jyanni. "Queering Freud : textual (re)configurations of lesbian desire and sexuality /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs8174.pdf.
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Weber, Susan G. "Undermining Heteronormativity in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1395238012.
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Rodriguez, de Rivera Itziar. "Mujeres de Papel: Figuras de la "Lesbiana" en la Literatura y Cultura Españolas, 1868-1936." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10604.
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Mujeres de papel examines the representation of female same-sex desire in Spanish literature and culture between 1868 and 1936, drawing on novels, popular sex manuals, sexological treatises, postcards, and illustrations. While scholars have productively attended to Post-Francoist literary and cinematographic expressions of non-normative sexualities, my dissertation sheds new light on its rich yet discontinuous prehistories. I argue that the figure of the “lesbian” is a convergence point for the ideas, beliefs and anxieties of Spanish modernity. From the will to know and categorize to erotic fantasies, the “lesbian” constitutes a pervasive yet unstable trope, which resists and at the same time motivates its definition and control. Chapter one analyzes Francisco de Sales Mayo’s 1869 La Condesita (Memorias de una doncella), a work halfway between a private diary, an erotic novel, and a medical treatise, which features a provocative case of female homosexuality. The next two chapters grapple with literary, (pseudo)scientific, and visual artifacts of the so-called “sicalipsis,” or erotic wave that inundated Spanish culture between the late 19th century and the 1930s. Works studied in these sections include novels by Rafael Cansinos-Assens, Álvaro Retana, Artemio Precioso, and Felipe Trigo, popular sex manuals by Vicente Suárez Casañ and Ángel Martín de Lucenay, and visual erotica. Chapter four turns to the fiction of Feminist writer Carmen de Burgos in conjunction with the theories on “intersexuality” formulated by Gregorio Marañon, Spain’s most renowned scientist and public intellectual of the 1920s.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Waters, Sarah Ann. "Wolfskins and togas lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present /." Thesis, Online version, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.393332.
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Wilkerson, Virginia Lee. "Vestiges of the vampire : rediscovering the monstrous in contemporary lesbian poetry." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=201684.
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The majority of this thesis consists of my creative work in poetry, accompanied by researched information and concepts that serve to contextualize and illuminate the poems themselves and my creative process. Key areas of scholarship that underlie my poetry include the tropes and motifs of Gothic literature from the Romantic era to the present; the progression of women’s writing, particularly writing by women identifying as lesbian; and the conflation of female writers and characters with the concept of the ‘monstrous’ and transgressive. Also informing the two research chapters are some of the basic concepts about abjection and depression developed by philosopher and theorist Julia Kristeva. The collection of my poems contains both narrative and lyric poems. The final chapter, following on from my collection of sixty-eight poems, outlines my creative progress as I developed my particular poetic aesthetic. It is heavily informed by my growing acquaintance and comfort level with my own darkness and depression reflected in Gothic tropes, lesbian fiction, and aspects of Kristevan theory. The progression of my craft as a writer led me to strive for an effective expressive balance between the abstractions of the French Symbolists and Surrealists and a more ‘Imagistic’ focus on accurate, concrete imagery.
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Ashton, Kristina Anne Everton. "Willa Cather : male roles and self-definition in My Ántonia, The professor's house, and "Neighbor Rosicky" /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1597.pdf.
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Jerome, Collin. "Queer Melayu : queer sexualities and the politics of Malay identity and nationalism in contemporary Malaysian literature and culture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39644/.
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This thesis examines Malay identity construction by focusing on the complex processes of self-identification among queer-identified Malays living in Malaysia and beyond. By analysing representations of queer Malays in the works of contemporary Malaysian Malay writers, scholars, and filmmakers, as well as queer Malays on the internet and in the diaspora, the thesis demonstrates how self-identifying gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Malays create and express their identities, and the ways in which hegemonic Malay culture, religion, and the state affect their creation and expression. This is especially true when queer-identified Malays are officially conflated with being “un-Malay” and “un-Islamic” because queer sexualities contravene Malay cultural and religious values. This thesis begins by discussing the politics of Malay identity, particularly the tension between “authority-defined” and “everyday-defined” notions of being Malay that opens up a space for queer-identified Malays to formulate narratives of Malayness marked by sexual difference. The thesis then discusses how queer-identified Malays specifically construct their identities via various strategies, including strategic renegotiations of ethnicity, religiosity, and queer sexuality, and selective reappropriations of local and western forms of queerness. The ways in which “gay Melayu” identity is a hybrid cultural construction, produced through transnational and transcultural interactions between local and western forms of gayness under current conditions of globalization is also examined, as well as the material articulation of queer narratives of Malayness and its diverse implications on queer-identified Malays' everyday lives and sense of belonging. The thesis concludes with a critical reflection on the possibilities and limitations of queerness in the context of queer Malay identity creation. Such reflection is crucial in thinking about the future directions for research on queerness and the politics of queer Malay identity. It is hoped that this study will show that queer-identified Malays reshape and transform received ideas about “Malayness” and “queerness” through their own invention of new and more nuanced ways of being “queer” and “Malay.” This study also fills up the lacunae in the scholarship on Malay identity and queer Malays by addressing the productions of Malay ethnicity and sexual identity among queer-identified Malays within and beyond Malaysia's borders.
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Malmberg, Sara. ""Det finns liksom lagar för vad man får tänka och känna." : Om lesbiskhet som problem och identitet i tre svenska ungdomsromaner." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37480.
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My intention with this essay is to analyze how lesbianism is described in Swedish youth literature. I have done a queer reading of three books written in the 2000’s to find out if lesbian love is described as a problem, and if it isn’t: what it causing problems in the novels? When reading the novels I have also observed how the environment and the characters themselves perceive lesbian identity. The novels I have chosen are Det händer nu by Sofia Nordin (2010), Som eld by Sara Lövestam (2015) and Du och jag, Marie Curie by Annika Ruth Persson (2003). To apply queer theory I have used several concepts, such as heteronormativity, coming out, shame and internalized homophobia, when analyzing the texts. The conclusion of my analysis is that one of the novels describes the lesbian love itself as a problem, while the other two are wider in their descriptions. Some characters are comfortable in their lesbian identity, while some are struggling with shame and coming out-issues. My final conclusion is that it is heteronormativity that is causing problems in the novels, not lesbianism.
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Nogueira, Nadia Cristina. "Lota Macedo e Elizabeth Bishop : amores e desencontros no Rio dos anos 1950-1960." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280584.
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Orientador: Luzia Margareth RagoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Esta tese reflete sobre as condições subjetivas relativas à relação amorosa entre Lota Macedo Soares e Elizabeth Bishop, entendendo que elas foram capazes de inventar vínculos afetivos e sexuais fora dos espaços institucionais, como a família e a maternidade. No contexto dessa experiência, elas assumiram novas maneiras de relacionarem-se consigo mesmas e com o meio social no qual estavam inseridas. Considerado perversão, doença, associado à criminalidade, assim o homoerotismo feminino foi nomeado pelos discursos médico-legais. Neste trabalho, resgato a discussão sobre essas práticas, sublinhando a importância da sua desconstrução, por entender que esse pensamento conservador discriminou as mulheres envolvidas nessas relações. Ademais, aproximo-me dos estudos que tornaram visíveis a diversidade das experiências femininas, atentando para a divisão binária da sociedade sob a qual o sexo tornou-se uma evidência inquestionável apagando as múltiplas formas de manifestação do humano.
Abstract: This thesis reflects upon the subjective conditions regarding Lota Macedo Soares and Elizabeth Bishop?s love relationship, understanding that they were able to create affective and sexual ties outside institutionalized spaces such as family and maternity. Within this experience, they assumed new ways to relate with themselves as well as with the social environment in which they were inserted. Considered perversion, sickness, associated to criminality, so was the female homoerotism referred to by the legal-medical discourses. In this work, I rescue a discussion on these practices, underlining the importance of deconstruction, understanding that this conservative thinking discriminated women involved in this kind of relationship. Furthermore, I approach the studies that rescued the diversity of the female experience, noticing the social binary division under which sex became unquestionable evidence that erased the multiple forms of human manifestations.
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Turbiau, Aurore. "Pensées et pratiques féministes de l'engagement littéraire (France, Québec, 1969-1985)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2023SORUL078.pdf.
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Cette thèse prend pour objet d'examiner, à l'aune de la notion d'engagement littéraire, les pensées et pratiques politiques de la littérature que mettent en œuvre les écrivaines de la cause des femmes, en France et au Québec, entre 1969 et 1985. Elle s'intéresse à un vaste corpus d'autrices parmi lesquelles l'étude privilégie, au Québec, Nicole Brossard, France Théoret, Louky Bersianik et Madeleine Gagnon, et en France Monique Wittig, Hélène Cixous, Françoise d'Eaubonne et Christiane Rochefort. En héritières de théories qui les précèdent et les accompagnent ces écrivaines réactivent la dimension d'abord éthique et critique de l'engagement, s'opposant au principe autoritaire des écritures « à thèse ». Elles renouvellent de diverses manières la notion de situation, centrale dans la pensée de Jean-Paul Sartre autant que dans celle de Simone de Beauvoir, et forgent un certain nombre de concepts placés au croisement du politique, de l'épistémologique et du poétique - en reproblématisant notamment les notions de sujet, d'action et de reconnaissance, d'histoire, concepts-clés de l'engagement littéraire canonique. Interrogeant l'identité « femme » qui décrit leur position dans l'espace social et littéraire, ces écrivaines élaborent aussi depuis leur point de vue spécifique le concept de « genre ». Elles déploient et réorientent les oppositions articulées à leur époque entre engagement et avant-gardes, les disqualifient souvent, les pensent en fonction d'imaginaires utopistes mi-pragmatiques mi-idéalistes ; elles interrogent la place que peuvent occuper la violence et l'insolence dans des politiques littéraires inédites, dont les esthétiques de rupture sont aussi largement des projets de fondation et de lien noué entre femmes - par là, elles scrutent aussi la dimension de leurs œuvres que l'on dit parfois « illisible » et contestent ce reproche, le renversant en gage de dialogue avec l'histoire littéraire de la modernitéThis thesis aims to examine, in the light of the notion of literary engagement, the political thoughts and practices of literature put into play by writers of the women's liberation movement in France and Quebec between 1969 and 1985. It focuses on a vast corpus of women writers, including Nicole Brossard, France Théoret, Louky Bersianik, and Madeleine Gagnon in Quebec, and Monique Wittig, Hélène Cixous, Françoise d'Eaubonne and Christiane Rochefort in France. As heirs to the existentialist theories that preceded and accompanied them, these writers reenvision the primarily ethical and critical dimension of literary engagement, opposing the authoritarian principle of “roman à thèse” writing. In various ways, they renew the notion of “situation”, central to the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre as much as Simone de Beauvoir, and forge several concepts at the crossroads of the political, the epistemological, and the poetic - in particular by re-problematizing the notions of subject, action and recognition, and history, key concepts in canonical literary engagement. Questioning the identity of “woman” that describes their position in the social and literary space, these writers also create and elaborate on the concept of “gender” from their specific point of view. They deploy and reorient the oppositions articulated at the time between literary engagement and the avant-garde, often disqualifying them and thinking of them in terms of utopian imaginaries that are half-pragmatic, half-idealistic; they question the place that violence and insolence can occupy in new literary politics, whose aesthetics of rupture are also largely projects of foundation and bonding between women - in so doing, they also scrutinise the dimension of their work that is sometimes said to be “unreadable” and challenge this reproach, turning it into a pledge of dialogue with the literary history of modernity
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Graham, Chelsea. "Defanged and Desirable: An Examination of Violence and the Lesbian Vampire Narrative." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460127837.
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Everton, Kristina Anne. "Willa Cather: Male Roles and Self-Definition in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and "Neighbor Rosicky"." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/821.
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Gender roles are a tool used by society to set acceptable boundaries and ideals upon the sexes, and during the early part of the twentieth century in America those gender boundaries began to blur. As a result of the 19th Amendment, men must have felt their decreasing importance because women were no longer solely dependent upon them, and gender roles shifted as woman began to occupy territory that was traditionally held by men. The “New Woman" entered the workforce, and refused to accept traditional female gender conventions. In response to the “New Woman," Theodore Roosevelt and other leading males sought to reinforce the ideal of the male as the protector and provider. As woman took on characteristics commonly associated with men, men now had to grapple with a changing gender identity that often left them confused and frustrated. Willa Sibert Cather's life reflects the fluctuating gender conventions of early twentieth century America as she struggled to define her gender identity. In her youth, Cather chopped her hair and dressed like a boy. She also spent time dissecting frogs and called herself “William Cather, M.D." Cather's cross-dressing reveals her unconventional core and her desire to define herself regardless of societal expectations. Cather also had many close relationships with woman, and these close relationships have led many scholars to label her a lesbian. Cather, however, left us a mystery surrounding her gender preference because she never openly called herself a lesbian. Cather's supposed lesbianism is useful because it reveals the ambiguity of her personality. Cather is paradox because she sought for self-definition, but she also suffered from an identity crisis. By using the shifting nature of gender roles in the America during the early decades of the twentieth century and Cather's confused and unconventional life as a backdrop, I would argue that My Ántonia (1918), The Professor's House (1925), and “Neighbor Rosicky (1932)" reveal the consequences of gender roles. Cather's novels and short story should be analyzed for her interest in exploring male reaction to prescribed gender roles which, ultimately, reveals Cather's attitude towards the existence of gender conventions. Cather advocated for a more fluid and balance way of defining male and female roles. Cather's novel My Ántonia and The Professor's House reveal the consequences of gender roles because both Jim and Professor St. Peter are frustrated, fearful, unsatisfied, ambiguous, and unhappy with the roles that they have been playing. In sharp contrast to these two novels is Cather's delightful short story entitled “Neighbor Rosicky." In this short story Cather presents a protagonist who is whole and balanced. “Neighbor Rosicky" is Cather's statement regarding the importance and beauty of self-definition. Ultimately, her literature can be viewed as a rejection of both male and female gender qualities which demonstrates that Cather and her fiction cannot be reduced to an identity agenda.
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Douglas, Erin Joan. "Queer Makings of Femininities in the Twentieth Century." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1283298119.
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Lasserre, Audrey. "Histoire d’une littérature en mouvement : textes, écrivaines et collectifs éditoriaux du Mouvement de libération des femmes en France (1970-1981)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030139/document.
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Le Mouvement de libération des femmes en France ne fut pas seulement un mouvement politique et social, ce fut également l’une des dernières, si ce n’est la dernière, avant-garde littéraire que la France a connue. Du point de vue international, l’activité des littératrices au sein du Mouvement constitue un des principes distinctifs de la lutte des femmes en France. Les manifestantes qui déposent publiquement une gerbe de fleurs à la femme plus inconnue encore que le soldat inconnu sous l’Arc de Triomphe le 26 août 1970, sont déjà pour certaines – appelées à le devenir pour d’autres – des écrivaines. Dix ans plus tard, le MLF, depuis peu marque déposée à l’Institut national de la propriété industrielle, appartient à une éditrice, Antoinette Fouque, promotrice d’une écriture dite féminine. Dans l’espace circonscrit par ces deux points fixes, paraît un ensemble de textes qui s’inscrivent au sein de deux tendances majoritaires – mais antagonistes – du Mouvement, le féminisme d’une part et la néo-féminité, ou éloge de la différence, d’autre part. En miroir, un double rhizome éditorial se développe, partageant maisons d’édition et revues en deux factions militantes et littéraires bien distinctes. Pendant dix ans, la littérature se met tout autant au service du Mouvement des femmes que le Mouvement irradie la littérature, chacun-e influençant et informant la pratique et la pensée de l’autre. C’est de cette coïncidence entre littérature et Mouvement de libération des femmes que le présent écrit se propose de rendre compte, afin de retracer un mouvement politique qui fut et se fit littéraire, et, dans le même élan, une littérature qui fut et se fit politique. Par là même, la thèse redouble la question posée par tout un mouvement de femmes à la littérature elle-même, contestant ses définitions premières et repoussant les limites qui lui ont été assignéesThe Women’s Liberation Movement (MLF) was not only a political and social movement, but one of the last, if not the very last, literary avant-garde that France has experienced. From an international perspective, the activity of the literary women within the movement represents one of the fundamental principles of the fight for women’s rights in France. The demonstrators, who publicly placed a bouquet of flowers for the unknown wife of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe on August 26th 1970, are for some, and are soon to become for others, women writers. Ten years later, the MLF, a recently registered trademark with the National Institute for Intellectual Property Rights, belongs to the editor, Antoinette Fouque, promotor of female writing. Within the space determined by these two fixed points, there exists a collection of texts that adhere to two major trends – although antagonistic – of the movement, Feminism on one hand and Neofeminity, or the praise for “difference”, on the other hand. Mirroring each other, a dual editorial form develops, sharing publishers and scholarly journals, into two distinct literary and militant factions. For ten years, literature served the purpose of the Women’s Liberation Movement as much as the latter promoted literature, each influencing and informing the other by practice and thought. It is precisely this coexistence between literature and the Women’s Liberation Movement that the present dissertation proposes to examine, in order to trace the political movement that was and made itself literary, and, by the same token, a literature that was and made itself political. At the same time, the dissertation continues the question asked of literature by an entire women’s movement, challenging its assigned definitions and pushing back its boundaries
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Linné, Robert Andrew. "Alternative reading lists : personal literacy histories of gays and lesbians /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Ceia, Vanessa Vitorino. "Amor, lesbianismo, niñas buenas, y putas : las protagonistas de Lucía Etxebarría." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99359.
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Lucia Etxebarria's first two novels, Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas and Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes, demonstrate just how the author affirms, questions and discredits the binary notions that are historically associated with gender. A critical approach to the social roles traditionally categorized as masculine and feminine and the literal and symbolic concepts of homo, hetero and bisexuality---all of which are personified by the varied protagonists of the two works---unveils the faulty foundation upon which the cultural, sexual and even biological dichotomies of male and female are constructed and perpetuated. These arbitrary ideals are patriarchal constructs that inherently marginalize, conceal and even eradicate the innumerable unclassifiable gender combinations that can be found along the sexual spectrum. Etxebarria uses her texts as a social weapon with which to rebel against the traditional myths of femininity and represent the socially problematic genders that are often silenced by the omnipresent power of the classical Spanish hegemony.
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Siesing, Gina Michellle. "Fictional democracies : the formation of lesbian-feminist literary publics /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Lima, Maria Isabel de Castro. "Cassandra, rios de lágrimas." Florianópolis, SC, 2009. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/93291.
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Consideradas obras de pouca complexidade pelo cânone do século XX e ficando à margem dos estudos literários, as autobiografias de mulheres começaram a ser procuradas e lidas, ou re-lidas pela crítica feminista a partir dos anos 1980. Mas entre as narrativas marginalizadas, há as que são ainda mais marginalizadas. Se as mulheres não tinham voz, menos ainda as mulheres lésbicas, ignoradas, escondidas ou tratadas como doentes mentais. A escritora Odete Rios, que escreveu sob o pseudônimo de Cassandra Rios, faz parte do rol de mulheres invisíveis que, com seu trabalho literário, procurou tirar as relações lésbicas do limbo a que estavam destinadas. Pioneira no protagonismo lésbico na literatura brasileira, a escritora foi sucesso de vendas e público dos anos 1950 a 1980. Perseguida pela censura, proibida, empobrecida, deixou a vida literária, retornando com sua autobiografia, Mezzamaro, flores e cassis: o pecado de Cassandra, em 2000, já com câncer em estágio adiantado. Esta dissertação tem como objetivo resgatar a importância dessa voz pioneira e marginal que grita em sua autobiografia.
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Hernandez, Lisa Justine. "Chicana feminist voices in search of Chicana lesbian voices from Aztlán to cyberspace /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3037497.
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Rogers, Donna Ann. "Elizabeth Bishop and her women countering loss, love, and language through Bishop's homosocial continuum /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002044.
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Smith, Jenna. "Spectacular lesbians : visual histories in Winterson, Waters, and Humphreys." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99392.
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As many theorists have pointed out, queer history is often erased within traditional, heteronormative historiography. Consequently, historians cannot recount the gay and lesbian past by conventional techniques of evidence and documentation. Instead they recuperate and reinvent queer history using strategies normally associated with the writing of fiction. This thesis examines three works of late twentieth century lesbian historical fiction that rewrite the past in order to render visible queer intimacy, sexuality, and desire. Jeanette Winterson's The Passion (1987), Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet (1998), and Helen Humphreys' Leaving Earth (1997) employ spectacularly visible lesbian heroines who symbolically reverse lesbian invisibility in mainstream historical narratives by displaying themselves as public figures or stage performers. There are ongoing debates in contemporary queer theory and historiography about the extent to which it is politically useful to privilege highly visible individuals when recovering the marginalized gay and lesbian past. Winterson's, Waters', and Humphreys' novels enact this debate, and exemplify a trend in contemporary lesbian historical fiction in which lesbian heroines are empowered by their ability to control their own visibility and to ensure the perpetuation of their history.
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Winkelmann, Cathrin. "The limits of representation? : the expression and repression of desire in 20th-century German lesbian narratives." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38437.
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This study investigates the expression and repression of desire in four 20th-century German-language lesbian prose texts. I examine in chronological order three novels and one novella: Der Skorpion (1919) by Anna Elisabet Weirauch; Lyrische Novelle (1933) by the Swiss author Annemarie Schwarzenbach; Der Schlachter empfiehlt noch immer Herz (1976) by Margot Schroeder; and, finally, Bilder von ihr (1996) by Karen-Susan Fessel. While not concentrating on any single literary work, the excursus on texts from the period between the Third Reich and the Second Feminist Movement in Germany provides a brief analysis of the (lack of) lesbian literary developments during this time.Drawing on diverse lesbian-feminist and queer strains of criticism, this study provides a close examination of the narrative elements, strategies, and styles used to inscribe lesbian desire into the literary works selected for analysis. The investigation explores how these texts utilize narrative conceptualizations of lesbian desire, critiques of heterophallocentric language and representation, and strategies to create lesbian narrative spaces that challenge the heterosexual presumptions and trajectories which traditionally underlie conventional Western romance narratives. The constructions of "lesbian" identity presented in the texts are fundamentally connected to the creation and operation of these narrative spaces. Thus, in order to contextualize my interpretations and literary analyses, I situate the texts in the respective socio-historical and political contexts in which they were written and received.
The unresolved problems, prevailing tensions, and their individual differences notwithstanding, the narratives examined here collectively contribute to a lesbian counterdiscourse to the 20th-century German literary establishment. By exploring the strategies invoked in these texts to represent a desiring textual lesbian subjectivity, this study hopes to make visible a tradition of Germanlanguage lesbian literature---a fragmented and often marginalized literature---over the last century and to offer German literary studies insights from the periphery of the dominant heterosexual culture. However, this investigation simultaneously and paradoxically also contests the very positioning of German lesbian literature and criticism at the margins by proposing their strategic integration into the German literary canon.
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Falconi, Diego. "De las cenizas al texto: transgresiones identitarias gays, lesbianas y queer en el ordenamiento literario andino contemporáneo." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/96536.
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Las literaturas de las diversidades sexuales, es decir, aquellas que articulan subjetividades GLBTTIQ (Gay, Lésbico, Bisexual, Transexual, Transgénero, Intersexual y Queer) han sido poco abordadas en la zona de los Andes por varias razones. En esta tesis busco plantear la existencia de ciertas características genealógicas que moldean los discursos en torno a la construcción de estas sexualidades y que se evidencian en varios documentos literarios contemporáneos, a la par que intento descubrir algunas de las razones por las cuales las literaturas andinas no han abordado dichas lecturas.
Para ello, y gracias a la interdisciplinariedad de la teoría literaria y la literatura comparada, planteo un esquema que intenta mezclar el concepto jurídico del ordenamiento con la crítica humanística en torno al cuerpo. Todo ello presentado como un ejercicio genealógico que se justifica en un modelo de aplicación que posibilite la explicación desde la literatura y el derecho del concepto de transgresión. A la par, y para contextualizar este modelo, hago una revisión a los principios básicos que articulan a la zona andina de manera discursiva y que permiten configurar un ordenamiento particular con distintas subjetividades que actúan dentro y fuera del texto literario para conformar un panorama de estas literaturas de los Andes.
La parte práctica de mi tesis plantea tres casos que aplican el esquema teórico en tres autores que trabajan las temáticas identitarias de las diversidades sexuales: Pablo Palacio, Julieta Paredes y Fernando Vallejo. Dichos casos, además, permiten articular cuáles son las problemáticas que se encuentran en el polisistema cultural de la zona a través del análisis narrativo y poético. Este acercamiento busca proponer postulados que reactualicen la noción de literaturas andinas pero que puedan desviar la lectura en la búsqueda de un contracanon literario andino basado en lecturas poscoloniales y de género. A partir de los principios de literatura heterogénea y contradictoria de Cornejo Polar intentaré hablar sobre la riqueza de los modos de representación de la zona, la coexistencia de cuerpos y subjetividades y las problemáticas que diferencian a la escritura andina pero buscando proponer un esbozo de contracanon y una nueva lectura política de las sexualidades de esta región.The literature of sexual diversities, ie, those that articulate GLBTTIQ subjectivities (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) in the region of the Andes have been addressed very rarely for several reasons. This thesis seeks to show the existence of certain characteristics that shape the genealogical discourse around sexualities, which are evident in several contemporary literary documents, as well as it tries to unveil some of the reasons why Andean literature has not been included in those documents. In order to do this, and thanks to the interdisciplinarity of comparative literature and literary theory, I propose a scheme that attempts to merge the concept of legal normative order with a humanistic criticism around the body. All this is presented as a genealogic exercise that uses law as an application model that frames the concept of transgression. At the same time, in order to contextualize this model, I will review the basic principles that articulate the Andean region in a discursive way. This explanation aims to configure a particular system with different subjectivities operating within and outside the literary text to form an overview of the Andean literatures. The practical part of my thesis presents three cases that apply the theoretical scheme through three authors who work the identity issues of sexual diversities: Pablo Palacio, Julieta Paredes y Fernando Vallejo. These cases will also allow the articulation of issues and topics found in the area's cultural polysystem through a poetic and narrative analysis. This approach seeks to propose postulates that will restore as up to date the notion of Andean literature. It will also divert the reading in the search of an Andean literary counter-canon based on postcolonial and gender readings. Starting with the principles of heterogeneity and contradictory literature by Cornejo Polar, there is an attempt in this thesis to talk about the variety of representations in the area, about the coexistence of their bodies and subjectivities, and about issues that differentiate the literature of the region. All this seeks to propose a counter-canon and a new Andean literature based on the political view of gender and sexuality studies.
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Shaw, Patricia M. "Lesbian women and AIDS : a literature review and discussion group for lesbian women on sexual health and safer sex education for prevention of HIV infection." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118289.
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Research on AIDS and women is recent and focuses almost exclusively on the heterosexual population. Despite research on the sexual behavior of young women which asserts that lesbians are at low risk for exposure to HTV, many lesbians engage in high risk practices and are therefore at risk for infection. In order for AIDS education for this population to be effective, it must be designed spedfically to meet identified needs. [...]
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Hawkins, Damaris. ""They say she is veiled": A rhetorical analysis of Judy Grahn's poetry." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2941.
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Lobdell, Bambi Lyn. "A man in all that the name implies reclassification of Lucy Ann/Joseph Israel Lobdell /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Dunzweiler, Krista J. "Saving America's gays and lesbians from hell : a fantasy theme criticism of the anti-gay rhetoric of the far-right." Scholarly Commons, 2000. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/536.
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This thesis investigates the worldview of six rhetors of the far-right using the rhetorical method of fantasy theme analysis. The specific rhetors examined in this study are Peter J. Peters, Dan Gayman, Edward Fields, Fred Phelps, Jeny Falwell, and James Dobson. In order to understand the discourse of the six rhetors, five research questions were developed to guide the study: (1) What are the images portrayed of homosexuals and gay rights advocates in the fantasy themes of the rhetors examined in this study? (2) What are the images portrayed of Christians in the fantasy themes of the rhetors examined in this study? (3) How do the fantasy themes differ in extremity among the rhetors of the far-tight with regard to homosexuality and supporters of gay lights? (4) How do the fantasy themes of the rhetors work together to create a rhetolical vision for the far-light regarding homosexuality? (5) How do the collective fantasy themes of the far-right rhetors potentially influence actions against and aggression towards homosexuals? In order to answer these questions, a fantasy theme analysis was conducted on various artifacts of the six rhetors chosen for examination in this thesis. The analysis indicated that the fantasy themes of the rhetors work together to create a rhetorical vision in which a drama is played out. In this drama, homosexuals and supporters of gay rights are depicted as villains and fundamentalist Christians are characterized as heroes. Through the depictions of these characters and their actions the ultimate ideal of America as a country is provided. This ultimate ideal focuses on a setting where homosexuals do not exist and gay rights is not an issue. Through these fantasy themes the rhetors encourage America's patriots and fundamentalist Christians to remove homosexuals from society. In addition, the collective rhetorical vision of the six rhetors provides motives for aggressive actions against homosexuals, including acts of violence.
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Nilsson, Camilla. "Går det att hitta lesbiska kioskromaner på svenska folkbibliotek? : Ett diskursanalytiskt perspektiv på en osynlig genre." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323931.
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The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine how Swedish public libraries approach and regard lesbian pulp fiction as a genre, from both a historical and modern perspective, and also to visualize and critique the surrounding discourses that influence the perception and reception of the genre. The method is twofold and consists of qualitative interviews as well as discourse analysis inspired by Foucault. The data consists of interviews with three librarians responsible for library collections, selection and purchase of new library materials which is combined with a survey reading of Biblioteksbladet, the periodical of Svensk Biblioteksförening, from 1945–1990. Michel Foucaults theories on discourses and the principles and mechanisms of exclusion, and Pierre Bourdieus theories on taste and distinction, guide the analysis. The analysis focuses to a great extent on discursive patterns, especially concerning the relationship between popular and quality fiction, and components of Bourdieus field theory and how this contributes to the creation of taste through distinction. Throughout the analysis possible explanations regarding the position of lesbian pulp fiction are given which covers areas from classification and interpretation of literary genres to quality assessment, selection and purchase of literature. The results of the study shows that lesbian pulp fiction is quite invisible in Swedish public libraries which is mainly seen as an effect of discursive practices that surround and influence the genre such as the societal and historical view of homosexuality but also the view on popular literature. Conclusions are that librarians are not making conscious exclusions of lesbian pulp fiction per se, they are if anything quite unaware of the genre’s existence, but that the practices that shape the field of public libraries has contributed to the genre’s position. The study is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science written at Uppsala university.
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Feole, Eva. "Mots incarnés et corps illisibles. L'oeuvre littéraire de Monique Wittig." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSES040.
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Née en 1935, Monique Wittig est aujourd’hui célèbre surtout grâce à ses textes théoriques, mais elle est aussi l’autrice d’une œuvre littéraire éclectique, complexe et subversive. Au centre de de sa production littéraire et théorique, il y a le corps. Tout d’abord, nous nous proposons donc d’étudier la relation entre corps du texte et corps humain dans l’œuvre de l’autrice. L’attention que Wittig focalise sur le corps est strictement liée à son idée de langage. À son avis, la langue peut opérer une « plastie » sur la réalité et, de la même manière, les mots ont un côté matériel qui touche notre vie quotidienne. De plus, le langage peut nous heurter et il joue un rôle précis dans la construction des injustices sociales. Ma thèse vise donc à sonder cette violence langagière qui est véhiculée par les textes littéraires et par le langage quotidien. Finalement, nous nous proposons d’analyser le personnage lesbien qui peuple les livres de Wittig. Le corps de ce protagoniste est traditionnellement monstrueux et effrayant : Wittig se réapproprie cette tradition afin de démontrer dans quelle mesure les corps lesbiens sont au même temps vulnérables et puissants. Bref, le personnage lesbien de Monique Wittig n’est pas seulement la femme qui aime une autre femme, mais il est un être humain qui échappe à toute norme hétérosexiste et dont le corps est à la fois heurté par les mots et grâce aux mots peut devenir puissantEven if Monique Wittig was a very talented writer, she has been especially studied as an essayist. At the center of both her fictional and political universes is the human body. First of all, I intend to examine the relationship between the body of the text and the human body described in the text. The attention that Wittig pays to the body of the text is interrelated to her idea of language. According to her, language can operate a “plastic surgery” on reality. In the same way, the book as an object and the act of reading can operate on the perception of one’s identity and body. In other words, the language has a material side that affects our everyday life. It can seem a banal statement, but Wittig goes further in her thought: words hurt us and cooperate in the development of social injustices and class hierarchies. On account of this, my research aims to investigate this particular kind of violence that literary texts and common language perform on our bodies. Finally, Wittig’s lesbian characters will be analyzed in the last part of my work. The body of this peculiar lesbian protagonist is traditionally represented as ambiguously monstrous and scary. Wittig takes this tradition back and she manipulates it in order to show how lesbian bodies are vulnerable and strong at the same time. In short, Wittig’s lesbian characters are not simply women who love other women: they are people who do not fit in the heteronormative binary system and whose bodies are made of and from words, and it is through words that they can create a different reality
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Floerke, Jennifer Jodelle. "A queer look at feminist science fiction: Examing Sally Miller Gearhart's The Kanshou." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2889.
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This thesis is a queer theory analysis of the feminist science fiction novel The Kanshou by Sally Miller Gearhart. After exploring both male and female authored science fiction in the literature review, two themes were to be dominant. The goal of this thesis is to answer the questions, can the traditional themes that are prevalent in male authored science fiction and feminist science fiction in representing gender and sexual orientation dichotomies be found in The Kanshou? And does Gearhart challenge these dichotomies by destabilizing them? The analysis found determined that Gearhart's The Kanshou does challenge traditional sociological norms of binary gender identities and sexual orientation the majority of the time.
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Steffensen, Jyanni. "Queering Freud : textual (re)configurations of lesbian desire and sexuality / Jyanni Steffensen." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18924.
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Bibliography: leaves 439-473.viii, 473 leaves ; 30 cm.
Examines contemporary textual constructions of lesbianism, and reconfigures psychoanalytic discourses on female homosexuality in a way more appropriate to the reading of representations of lesbian desire and sexuality in contemporary western culture.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Women's Studies, 1996
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Walker, La Shea. "Women-Loving-Women Portrayals in Fiction, a Critical Literature Review." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/19945.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This critical literature review explores the ways in which scholars have discussed depictions of fictional women-loving women (WLW) in film and on television in the past five years. This study is guided by both sexual script theory and the intersectional perspective. Prior studies of WLW in fiction have largely focused on the areas of homonormativity, race, bisexual-erasure, WLW stereotypes, gender dynamics, WLW communities, and post-modern representation. Earlier research has focused on those areas to the exclusion of giving more attention to exploring the use of queerbaiting in modern storytelling. Future research should include analyses of more recently featured fictional WLW characters and WLW relationships in film and on television in addition to more research on queerbaiting overall.
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"From Indeterminacy to Acknowledgment: Topoi of Lesbianism in Transatlantic Fiction by Women, 1925-1936." Doctoral diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14866.
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abstract: This project will attempt to supplement the current registry of lesbian inquiry in literature by exploring a very specific topos important to the Modern era: woman and her intellect. Under this umbrella, the project will perform two tasks: First, it will argue that the Modern turn that accentuates what I call negative valence mimesis is a moment of change that enables the general public to perceive lesbianism in representations of women that before, perhaps, remained unacknowledged. And, second, that the intersection of thought and resistance to heteronormative structures, such as heterosexual desire/sex, childbirth, marriage, religion, feminine performance, generate topoi of lesbianism that lesbian studies should continuously critique in order to index the myriad and creative ways through which fictional representations of women have evaded their proper roles in society. The two tasks above will be performed amidst the backdrop of a crucial moment in history in which lesbianism jumped from fiction to fact through the publication and obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's novel, The Well of Loneliness. Deconstructive feminist and queer inquiry of under-researched novels by women from the UK and the US written within the decade surrounding the trial reveals the possibilities of lesbianism in novels where the protagonists' investment in heteronormativity has remained unquestioned. In those texts where the protagonists have been questioned, the analysis of lesbianism will be delved into more deeply in order to illustrate new ways of reading these texts. I will focus on women writers who, as Terry Castle suggests, "both usurped and deepened the [lesbian] genre" with the arrival of the new century (Literature 29). It is my attempt to combat heteronormativity through a more positive approach. As Michael Warner asserts, "heteronormativity can be overcome only by actively imagining a necessarily and desirably queer world" (xvi). This is not to say this study will be all roses and no thorns; a desirably queer world is not about a wish for an utopia. For this project, it is about rigorously engaging in the lesbianism of literature while acknowledging how a lesbian reading, a reading for lesbianism, can continue to both expand and enrich the critical tradition of a text and the customary interpretation of various characters.Dissertation/Thesis
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"The gendered vampires in contemporary culture: a lesbian feminist reading." 1999. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889884.
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Ina Yee.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-90).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgements --- p.i
Table of Contents --- p.ii
Abstract --- p.iii
Introduction --- p.1
The Gendered Vampires in Contemporary Culture
Vampires and Contemporary Culture --- p.1
Woman/Lesbian as Vampire --- p.7
"Ortner and ""the Angel in the House""" --- p.9
"Mulvey, Postfeminist Media Critics and the Female Body" --- p.10
Butler and the Lesbian Phallus --- p.12
Feminism and Postfeminisms --- p.14
Chapter Chapter One --- The Woman Vampire: The Fallen Angel --- p.18
Woman and Nature --- p.18
The Angel and the Woman Vampire --- p.23
The Postmodern Dracula --- p.33
Conclusion --- p.39
Chapter Chapter Two --- The Girl Vampire: The Resistant Female Body --- p.40
The Male Gaze --- p.40
"""When the Woman Looks"" at a Woman" --- p.47
The Postmodern Female Body --- p.56
Conclusion --- p.58
Chapter Chapter Three --- The Lesbian Vampire: The Female Desire --- p.60
The Lacanian Phallus --- p.60
The Lesbian Phallus --- p.64
The Lesbian Vampire --- p.67
The Dark Kiss and Female Sexual Pleasures --- p.70
Conclusion --- p.78
Conclusion --- p.81
Towards an Autonomous Representation of Womanhood
Bibliography --- p.87
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CHENG, KUN-YU, and 鄭堃裕. "The Changes of Lesbian’s and Gay’s Parent - Child Relationship in the Taiwanese Literature." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/smbgwk.
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From the conservative times to the era of legal marriage, parent-child relationship has been a difficult problem between gays, lesbians, and families. Most parents ask their children to comply with the traditional and natural rules. However, being a gay or lesbian is not a shameful or wrong thing for children. The different perspectives and from two sides have never been able to reach a consensus. Thus, it results in the deeper gaps between parents and children. This paper begins with the news in the 1950s. From the early 1950s to the late 1980s, gays and lesbians were shaped and stigmatized into sexual deviants in the newspapers. Additionally, the concept of filial piety emphasizes that children should devote themselves to their parents. They should acquire the highest social status in their own fields to show the glory of families, and the well education from parents. With the changes of times, the new concept of filial piety changes the previous one. That is, the relationship between parents and children isn't authoritative. This old version is transformed into the situation that families members share happiness and sadness together. Moreover, the concept that children should have descendants gradually ignored by young people because of economic problems. In the novels and movies, whether in a balanced or unbalanced parent-child relationship, this paper understands the differences on the issues about gays and lesbians of two generations through finding different claims and thoughts. Additionally, this study concentrates on technology of reproduction, and understands the difficulties that gays and lesbians face. The artificial fertility technique and the third generation would release parents from the facts that children are gays or lesbians. Through the evolution of evolution about the media and filial piety, this article perceives that the parents' stereotypes about gays and lesbians make parents re-know their children's sexual orientation. It also reduces the friction between parents and children so that parents are more willing to communicate with their children. This paper also talks about surrogate mothers. Through this approach, gays or lesbians are able to have their babys, and the existence of babys they can improve the relationships between parents and children.
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Barnet, Sophie, University of Western Sydney, and of Arts Education and Social Sciences College. "Stringybark summer." 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/29146.
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The first section of this paper examines the formation and portrayal of female/lesbian identity within Australian Literature with particular reference to the Bush Mythology tradition of the 1800's. Through reviewing a number of works classed as lesbian fiction it is argued that a more positive portrayal of lesbian love within Australian fiction is needed. To facilitate this shift in attitude traditional literary motifs, such as the journey and the bush, (typically the preserve of male characters) can be appropriated by a female hero. In the process of re-imagining the bushman's journey as one undertaken by a female/lesbian hero, the bush emerges as a force that can facilitate the hero on her journey toward a sense of wholeness. In keeping with the tradition of Feminist, Lesbian and Heroic literature Stringybark Summer charts the increasing self awareness of a young Australian lesbian as she journeys into the bush. The third person narrative follows the protagonist as she embarks on a journey into the unknown in order to discover the deeper meaning about her self, the world and those who share it with her.Master of Arts (Hons) (Communication and Media)
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Brand, Stacy C. Butler Robert Olen. "Eating white rice with my fingertips." Diss., 2005. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07182005-133434.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2005.Advisor: Dr. Robert Olen Butler, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 19, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 65 pages.
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Hernandez, Lisa Justine. "Chicana feminist voices : in search of Chicana lesbian voices from Aztlán to cyberspace." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/10529.
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Noble, Jean. "Masculinities without men female masculinity in twentieth century fictions /." 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ59150.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2000.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [328]-346). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ59150.
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Barnet, Sophie. "Stringybark summer." Thesis, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/29146.
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The first section of this paper examines the formation and portrayal of female/lesbian identity within Australian Literature with particular reference to the Bush Mythology tradition of the 1800's. Through reviewing a number of works classed as lesbian fiction it is argued that a more positive portrayal of lesbian love within Australian fiction is needed. To facilitate this shift in attitude traditional literary motifs, such as the journey and the bush, (typically the preserve of male characters) can be appropriated by a female hero. In the process of re-imagining the bushman's journey as one undertaken by a female/lesbian hero, the bush emerges as a force that can facilitate the hero on her journey toward a sense of wholeness. In keeping with the tradition of Feminist, Lesbian and Heroic literature Stringybark Summer charts the increasing self awareness of a young Australian lesbian as she journeys into the bush. The third person narrative follows the protagonist as she embarks on a journey into the unknown in order to discover the deeper meaning about her self, the world and those who share it with her.
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Cobb, Vaughn Aaron. "La enseñanza de temas homosexuales en la literatura: El fomento de un multiculturalismo más completo en los estudios de la literatura española." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3668.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)A variety of minority groups are present in the readings of Spanish and Latin American literature classes; however, there is a lack of representation of homosexual themes in the readings. This paper takes a look at what homosexual themes are present in the literature anthologies in current use, and then suggest a teaching unit and methodology for how one can implement these topics into a literature class. The paper provides a sound basis for teachers who are trying to introduce these issues into their classes. [Language - Spanish]
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Bacon, Catherine M. "Beyond sexual satisfaction : pleasure and autonomy in women’s inter-war novels in England and Ireland." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2674.
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My dissertation offers a new look at how women authors used popular genres to negotiate their economic, artistic, and sexual autonomy, as well as their national and imperial identities, in the context of the changes brought by modernity. As medical science and popular media attempted to delineate women’s sexual natures, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Winifred Holtby, Kate O’Brien, and Molly Keane created narratives which challenged not only psychoanalytic proscriptions about the need for sexual satisfaction, but traditional ideas about women’s inherent modesty. They absorbed, revised, and occasionally rejected outright the discourses of sexology in order to advocate a more diffuse sensuality; for these writers, adventure, travel, independence, creativity, and love between women provided satisfactions as rich as those ascribed to normative heterosexuality. I identify a history of queer sexuality in both Irish and English contexts, one which does not conform to emergent lesbian identity while still exceeding the limits of heteronormativity.text
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Krainitzki, Eva. "There are so many of us: a diversidade na representação da identidade lésbica em The well of loneliness de Radclyffe Hall." Master's thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/7929.
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Tese de mestrado em Estudos Anglísticos apresentada à Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 2007O romance The Well of Loneliness (1928), de Radclyffe Hall, pode ser considerado um dos mais conhecidos romances lésbicos cujo título, pelo menos, é familiar. Identidade e representação são categorias que se influenciam reciprocamente, tornando-se, portanto, indispensável analisar o tipo de identidade lésbica retratada nesta obra. Será possível conceber um discurso ‘reversivo’, tal como definido por Foucault, numa obra que integra uma definição de sexualidade desviante adoptada da sexologia, assim como uma idealização da heterossexualidade? A protagonista, Stephen Gordon, é representada de acordo com a noção de invertida congénita dos sexólogos do século XIX. Alegadamente emancipatória, por permitir entender a homossexualidade como patologia em vez de pecado ou crime, a teoria da inversão sexual deve ser entendida como prejudicial no caso da homossexualidade feminina. Ao contrário da homossexualidade masculina, o lesbianismo nunca foi definido como crime em termos legislativos; não correspondendo a sua medicalização a qualquer tipo de progresso. Escrita em forma de súplica pelo direito à existência das/dos invertida/os, dirigida à sociedade, The Well of Loneliness não rejeita a heterossexualidade, embora represente o desejo como categoria fluida. Em oposição a Stephen, o protótipo da invertida, Mary Llewellyn significa uma identidade lésbica liberta da classificação da sexologia. Neste estudo, propomos analisar a teoria da inversão sexual e a construção da heterossexualidade como norma nesta obra. Para mais, a representação de personagens secundárias, como Mary ou Valérie, será apresentada como a alternativa ao modelo da sexologia representado por Stephen Gordon.
Abstract: Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness is considered the one lesbian novel whose title, at least, is familiar to everyone. Since identity and representation influence each other reciprocally as far as cultural practices are concerned, one should ask what kind of lesbian identity is being depicted in this particular novel. Indebted to sexology’s definition of deviant sexuality and an all-pervading idealization of heterosexuality, does this novel allow for a ‘reverse’ discourse as defined by Foucault? Stephen Gordon, the protagonist, is represented in terms of the nineteenth-century sexologist’s female congenital invert notion. Allegedly liberating, since it conceptualised homosexuality as disease instead of sin or crime, the theory of sexual inversion might be seen as extremely damaging in case of female homosexuality. As opposed to male homosexuality, lesbianism never constituted a criminal act, which means that casting it in terms of congenital disease did not comprise any kind of progress. Written as a plea for society’s recognition of the invert’s right to existence, The Well of Loneliness does not reject heterosexuality, although desire is depicted as fluid. In opposition to Stephen, who emerges as the invert’s prototype, Mary Llewellyn signifies a lesbian identity liberated from sexological classifications. This study proposes to analyse the theory of sexual inversion and the construction of heterosexuality as a norm in this novel. Furthermore, the representation of secondary characters, such as Mary and Valérie, will be explored as alternatives to the sexological model represented by Stephen Gordon.
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Kizinska, Rose. "Dead cars in Westall: a narrative exploration of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in cosmopolitan Melbourne." Thesis, 2003. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18184/.
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Dead Cars in Westall is a collection of interlocking narratives, examining the
everyday practices of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity
culture in the cosmopolitan global/local nexus of Melbourne. These narratives are
supported by postmodern and poststructuralist theoretical underpinnings pertaining to
gender, sexuality, class, race/ethnicity and popular culture. Utilizing a bricolage of
qualitative methodology, the stories are autoethnographic and automobilic and
describe mobile subject positions, which traverse time and space. The 'dead car way'
of resistance, influenced by Chela Sandoval's Methodology of the Oppressed and
explicated throughout the text, produces a third space of cultural possibility, that of
the Uiminal' or the space in-between, whereby the subject is constantly in flux.
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Fergus, Larissa. "My sister chaos : women and exile : a novel and inter-layered exegesis." Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/30098/.
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My Sister Chaos: Women and Exile is a creative writing thesis in a single volume. It
comprises a novel - My Sister Chaos - and exegesis. Both novel and exegesis are
centred around a research question: 'What are some ways of constructing and
representing the idea of exile as it relates to women, particularly as lesbians and as
artists?' The novel responds creatively to the question, and the exegesis engages it
through the forms and processes of academic analysis. The research draws on the
theoretical frameworks of feminist human rights and socio-political theory, as well as
lesbian feminist literary theory and philosophy. Conceptual links and associations are
created, images juxtaposed, and patterns identified to generate new ideas through the
interaction of both creative and 'academic' methodologies. The broad question of how
exile is experienced by women is layered with considerations of how women who reject
'the category of sex' live in a society founded upon that distinction, and how they, as
artists, seek to understand and represent a world to which they do not 'belong.'
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Mendonça, Guido Arruda. "The two-spirit spectrum : questioning western views on gender and sexuality through the analysis of traditional native American gender roles." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/40874.
Full textAbstract:
Having considered the recent reclamation of Native American traditional gender
roles mixing masculine and feminine in the United States and Canada and the urgency of
paying attention to the voices of marginalized minorities under the pan-Indian term, the
Two-Spirit gender spectrum and its manifestations through time were the main subject of a
multidisciplinary analysis, grounded on culture and post-colonial studies, whose purpose
was to contest the legitimacy of Western hegemony concerning gender and sexuality, and to
propose a culturally hybrid and non-Eurocentric alternative contemplating the ever-changing
reality of the post-colonial present.
Gender binarism was questioned through the comparison of two glossaries, one
examining recurrent anglophone gender and sexuality terms, the other unpacking the
umbrella term Two-Spirit by describing some non-binary traditional genders specific to
most of the tribes. Analyses concluded that the fan of possibilities for gender roles might be
just as vast as cultural diversity itself. Besides, while Western terminology tended to
distinguish gender from sexuality, Native Americans blended gender, sexuality and
vocational roles. Ensuing, observations on European voyagers’ accounts on their first
contacts with non-heteronormative Native Americans, reflections on homosexuality in New
England, and the impacts of colonization and the forced assimilation imposed on Indigenous
peoples. Furthermore, established patterns for both male and female-assigned Two-Spirits
exposed mutual domestic, economic and mythological means of validation of system of
multiple genders in their respective societies. The situation of modern-day Two-Spirit
people and their intersections with the LGBT were also studied and exemplified by samples
of their artistic self-representation and resignification. Ultimately, new questions arose
regarding the impact of social media on the propagation and authenticity of knowledge
about Two-Spirit roles, on new points of convergence and divergence between Native
American and Western gender spectra resulting from the upcoming stages of Two-Spirit
cultural recovery in post-colonial and globalized scenarios.Abordam-se as questões de gênero e sexualidade das pessoas Two-Spirit (lit. Dois- Espíritos) pertencentes às populações indígenas da América do Norte nos atuais Estados Unidos da América e Canadá, com o objetivo de debater a hegemonia do pensamento ocidental acerca da generalidade das questões supramencionadas, assim como propor uma alternativa híbrida, não-eurocêntrica, e ponderada à realidade culturalmente mutável do presente pós-colonial, e à divisão binária dos gêneros entre ‘masculino’ e ‘feminino’. O termo Two-Spirit, que atualmente designa a generalidade culturalmente híbrida de populações indígenas LGBT que reivindicam uma identidade de gênero mista ligada à maioria das tribos norte-americanas, outrora designava indivíduos cujas identidades de gênero e sexualidade eram tão vastas e singulares quanto a diversidade das tribos e de seus antigos territórios. A pesquisa, alicerçada nos estudos da cultura, aborda de forma multidisciplinar, aspectos linguísticos, históricos, antropológicos e filosóficos do espectro de gênero e sexualidade das pessoas Two-Spirit desde o período colonial à atualidade, fornece um quadro comparativo entre um glossário terminológico anglófono sobre gênero e sexualidade, e outro na forma de um resgate de termos indígenas tradicionais nas suas respectivas línguas e especificidades relativas às tribos estudadas. O quadro expõe os pontos de divergência e interseção entre os vocábulos ocidentais e indígenas, ou seja, como um tende a significar gênero e sexualidade de uma forma mais distintiva, binária e heteronormativa, ao passo que as culturas com identidades Two-Spirit tendem a interlaçar gênero, sexualidade e papéis sociais e religiosos na forma identidades que exercem funções comumente associadas tanto ao masculino quanto ao feminino em graus variáveis. Propõem-se também reconstruções de perfis padrões de pessoas Two-Spirit de sexo masculino e feminino, o que tinham em comum, assim como os fatores mitológicos e econômicos que sancionavam essas identidades, concluindo que um espectro de múltiplos gêneros não é um fenômeno exclusivo de sociedades economicamente igualitárias. Contempla-se a estrutura familiar tradicional homoafetiva de pessoas Two-Spirit e como a sua identidade e abandono de funções reprodutivas preponderavam em relação à sua anatomia embora não se lhes ignorassem nem o sexo nem a sexualidade. Ademais, analisam-se diversos contatos com a colonização europeia, e o subsequente amalgamento cultural da assimilação forçada que expansão euroamericana impôs aos índios. Tais fenômenos produziram, como primeiro resultado, a extinção das pessoas Two-Spirit em favor de uma ideologia de gênero europeia, cristã e patriarcal institucionalizada. Contudo, verificou-se, a partir de meados do século XX, o resgate cultural de uma identidade então entregue ao apagamento histórico. Não obstante, a reivindicação das identidades Two-Spirit não eliminou a cultura anglo-americana presente no quotidiano dos povos nativos, tampouco os estigmas do racismo, machismo, homo e transfobia de que ainda têm sido vítimas. Surgiram, portanto, identidades culturalmente híbridas entre categorias Two-Spirit e LGBT, cujo um número de expressões e representações artísticas na dança, na pintura, na literatura e nas performances drag foi analisado. Tais identidades encontraram, na sua condição de alteridade interseccional e culturalmente mais ou menos decentralizada, um campo propício para subverter a própria semiótica, contrariando ideias de um presente naturalizado, de culturas estáticas, entre os opostos binários “eu/outro” e “agora/então” através da ressignificação de si mesmos e dos espaços ocupados pelas pessoas Two-Spirit. Avança-se a hipótese, segundo a qual, partindo do pressuposto que, onde quer que nasça, uma criança vem ao mundo num estado de tabula rasa, ou ky’apin segundo os Zunis, as possibilidades de construção de papéis de gênero são tão variáveis quanto as respectivas culturas de que fazem parte. Da reflexão, permanecem, como objeto de futura pesquisa, os próximos estágios da regeneração cultural Two-Spirit num contexto pós-colonial e globalizado, bem como o papel das redes sociais na propagação do conhecimento sobre as identidades Two-Spirit, e a autenticidade de tal conhecimento. Finalmente, também continuam abertos os debates quanto às relações entre o passado e o presente das tradições Two-Spirit e a respeito do próprio significado do termo.