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Courtney, Steven J. "Inadvertently queer school leadership amongst lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) school leaders." Organization 21, no. 3 (April 28, 2014): 383–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508413519762.
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Lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) school leaders may understand these sexual identities as essentialist categories and present lived experiences resistant to the identity category-troubling tenets of queer theory, whose application in queer empirical research can nonetheless provide important insights into leaders’ identity, practices and power. In this article, I focus on reconciling this conceptual tension to produce an empirical account of inadvertently queer school leadership in England. The article uses queer theory to re-interpret findings from a study of five LGB school leaders to show that despite perceiving sexual identity in an essentialist way, these LGB school leaders sexually embody inadvertently queer school leadership. They trouble gender norms and conceptualizations of ‘leader’ through non-normative sexual embodiment; suggest queer identities for others; and challenge heteronormativity’s institutional foundations and other processes of normalization.
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Downing, Lisa. "Antisocial Feminism? Shulamith Firestone, Monique Wittig and Proto-Queer Theory." Paragraph 41, no. 3 (November 2018): 364–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2018.0277.
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Recent iterations of feminist theory and activism, especially intersectional, ‘third-wave’ feminism, have cast much second-wave feminism as politically unacceptable in failing to centre the experiences of less privileged subjects than the often white, often middle-class names with which the second wave is usually associated. While bearing those critiques in mind, this article argues that some second-wave writers, exemplified by Shulamith Firestone and Monique Wittig, may still offer valuable feminist perspectives if viewed through the anti-normative lens of queer theory. Queer resists the reification of identity categories. It focuses on resistance to hegemonic norms, rather than on group identity. By viewing Wittig's and Firestone's critique of the institutions of the family, reproduction, maternity, and work as proto-queer — and specifically proto-antisocial queer — it argues for a feminism that refuses to shore up identity, that rejects groupthink, and that articulates meaningfully the crucial place of the individual in the collective project of feminism.
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Ftacek, Julia. "Reflections." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 33, no. 4 (June 1, 2021): 577–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.33.4.577.
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For the past several decades, scholars have examined the queer identities and sexual practices in eighteenth-century materials. However, queer and non-normative gender has been less frequently researched, even within the body of scholarship devoted to queer eighteenth-century studies. Scholars often take at face value the period’s gender norms, thereby suppressing the fact of a transgender eighteenth century. In this essay, I offer examples, from the Chevalier d’Eon to Lord Byron, that foreground the transgender qualities present in many materials of that time. I call on scholars to recognize the ways our field has inherited the period’s own normative views on queer gender expressions.
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Hendriks, Thomas. "‘Making men fall’: queer power beyond anti-normativity." Africa 91, no. 3 (April 26, 2021): 398–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000197202100022x.
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AbstractIn modern social thinking, norms are generally thought of in opposition to a space of freedom that is more or less curtailed by and through processes of normalization. ‘Transgression’ thereby becomes an implicit or explicit act of resistance against the norm. This is particularly clear in Western Queer Theory, where a political and analytical investment in anti-normativity has – paradoxically – become a field-defining norm. Yet such strong anti-normativity can become a liability when trying to do justice to actually existing queer dynamics in past and present African realities. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork among sexually dissident young men who call themselves ‘fioto’ in urban Democratic Republic of Congo, this article shifts the always already oppositional relationship between queerness and normativity – not by arguing that queer is normal too or by showing that queer lives produce their own norms alongside heteronormativity, but by suggesting that queerness is a potential of normativity, rather than an opposition to it. It specifically thinks with two groups of fioto friends in Kisangani to show how and why norms generated their own queerness – as something that was already there as an inherent dimension of their own dynamism and multiplicity.
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Kenney, Sean Charles. "(Un)Disciplining the Graduate Student, and a Queer Otherwise." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 2 (2020): 144–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.2.144.
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This essay reflects on the walkout during the 2019 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's Top Paper Panel. I draw upon queer theory to discuss the impacts of disciplinary norms and whiteness in organizational communication.
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Cashman, Holly R. "What Phoenix's jotería is saying: Identity, normativity, resistance." Language in Society 48, no. 4 (August 21, 2019): 519–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404519000411.
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AbstractThis article questions queer theory's investment in antinormativity and anti-identitarianism by applying a queer multimodal discourse analytic approach to the ethnographic context of queer, bilingual Mexicans/Latinxs in the US Southwest. The article explores the complexity of ways that norms are taken up and resisted (or not) in discourse, with particular attention to the activist use of discourses about community and identity. A close analysis of several texts illuminates how language practices and social practices—as seen, for example, in advertising strategies, participation in annual LGBTQ Pride festivals, and activism surrounding the undocuqueer movement—become invested with social meaning among queer Mexicans/Latinxs. (Antinormativity, queer theory, bilingual, sexual identity, community, Latinx, jotería)*
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Sudenkaarne, Tiia. "Considering Unicorns." SQS – Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran lehti 12, no. 1-2 (May 25, 2018): 35–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.23980/sqs.70785.
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This article discusses queer bioethics, a critical stance for dismantling cis- and heteronormativity in bioethics, together with intersectionality, the investigation of and potential for social justice-oriented change. I discuss the difficulties of navigating plurality with solidarity and ethical sobriety that I call the problems of identity, essentialism and relativism in intersectionality theory. I then proceed to ponder how queer bioethics relates to intersectionality, and close by offering some remarks for further research.
Certain intersectional approaches share key queer bioethical imperatives in exposing how seemingly neutral antidiscrimination discourses rely on bias and privilege. Both powerfully demonstrate how ostensibly objective methodologies are often inadequate for addressing socially sanctioned bias or for unpacking oppressive habits of the mind. Intersectionality interrupts narrative norms and disrupts easy binaries, such as male/female or homo/hetero. Because it is practice-oriented and has a social justice mission, intersectionality approaches analysis and advocacy as necessarily linked, which corresponds to queer bioethics arising from LGBTQI activism. However, establishing intersectional queer bioethics requires further investigation into cases of race, sexual and gender diversity with queer bioethics as the background moral theory, formulation of which I suggest should be inspired by feminist metaphysical advances.
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Krasuska, Karolina, Ludmiła Janion, and Marta Usiekniewicz. "Accessing Bodies that Matter." Translation and LGBT+/queer activism 16, no. 2 (February 17, 2021): 240–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tis.19064.kra.
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Abstract In this self-reflexive paper, co-written by scholars currently collaborating on the Polish translation of Judith Butler’s Bodies that Matter, we discuss the political and activist stakes of translating a canonical queer theory text over 25 years after its original publication, in the context of anti-lgbtq+ public discourse in today’s Poland. We argue that the collective character of our translation process turns it into an activist workshop that negotiates social norms and works on the invention and application of their alternatives. This activist practice results in a programmatically accessible translation, written in gender-inclusive and queer-sensitive language that follows the poststructuralist philosophical underpinnings of the 1993 source text and its gendered language. Discussing examples of Butler’s use of grammatical gender and her politicized style in our translation, the article contributes to understanding the queer activist practice of translation and, specifically, underwritten questions of translating queer theory in a contemporary Polish (linguistic) context.
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Provencher, Denis M. "Stepping back from queer theory: Language, fieldwork and the everyday in sexuality studies in France." French Cultural Studies 25, no. 3-4 (August 2014): 408–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155814532201.
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In a 2012 special issue of French Cultural Studies, Didier Eribon urges French studies scholars to step back from critical theory, and in particular queer theory as it has emerged in cultural and literary studies. He is also particularly critical of a version of queer theory conjugated with psychoanalysis. For Eribon, cultural studies scholars and those working in sexuality studies should move away from the ‘master narrative’ of the family and (re)turn to the cultural, the social, the field and empirical evidence. Over the last 15 years, I have conducted fieldwork and ethnographic interviews with self-identified same-sex desiring men in France. Their life stories can be read at times through the Anglo-American lens of a gay-identified, Western coming-out narrative with a telos of ‘progress’ that involves moving from the closet to being ‘out’. At the same time, however, a queer linguistic approach can help us to read against the grain of several norms and hence provide us with a broader understanding of their lived experiences. In this essay, I present empirical language data from my interview with ‘Tahar’ one of my self-identified same-sex desiring Maghrebi and Maghrebi-French interlocutors to illustrate how his speech acts are situated at the crossroads of multiple discourses, temporalities, identities and traditions. As we shall see, Tahar’s story involves being ‘beur’, ‘being homosexual’ and ‘being fat’. This subject speaks back against the empire, against heteronormativity, and against corporeal norms. While a postcolonial critique based on a ‘postcolonial identity’ (looking at ethnicity or religion, for example) or a linguistic analysis based on ‘gay identity’ could be helpful here, my point is that a queer linguistic analysis – one that takes a position counter to the normative broadly defined by considering simultaneously multiple subaltern subject positions – could provide a better approach for those of us working in an interdisciplinary French cultural studies context.
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Greenough, Chris. "Queering Fieldwork in Religion." Fieldwork in Religion 12, no. 1 (September 26, 2017): 8–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.34194.
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Scholars undertaking fieldwork in religion and theology engage on a practical level with participants/communities in order to understand religion as a living phenomenon. This article engages with queer theory as an approach to exploring the faith lives of non-normative Christians, by engaging with online communities. The article sets out the benefits and risks in terms of conducting such research in this way. Mobilizing queer theory is a challenging approach to research, as it questions established norms. It raises suspicions about what is perceived as normal and contests such perceptions by exploring those excluded. As queer is categorized by rupture to the “normal”, it serves as a catalyst to disrupt normative, established modes of research. Traditionally, fieldwork has often privileged notions of objectivity, emphasizing the role of the researcher in codified terms of neutrality. In the spirit of rupture, I offer personal and professional reflections on my ethnographic endeavours. The final section of this article discusses the subjective role of the researcher, noting how the positionality of the researcher can be a site of conflict.
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Chambers, Samuel A. "‘An Incalculable Effect’ : Subversions of Heteronormativity." Political Studies 55, no. 3 (October 2007): 656–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00654.x.
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The writings of Judith Butler are now canonised in the fields of feminist and queer theory, yet her contribution to politics and her role in the field of political theory remain uncertain. I argue, perhaps uncontroversially, that Butler's is a politics of subversion; I also contend, perhaps more contentiously, that Butler's understanding of subversion only takes clear shape in light of her implicit theory of heteronormativity. Butler's work calls for the subversion of heteronormativity; in so doing her writings both illuminate the general problem of normativity for politics and offer a robust response to that problem. Butler resists the tendency to treat norms as merely agreed-upon standards, and she rebuts those easy dismissals of theorists who would take seriously the power of norms thought in terms of normativity and normalisation. Butler's contribution to political theory emerges in the form of her painstaking unfolding of subversion. This unfolding produces an account of the politics of norms that is needed desperately by both political theory and politics. Thus, I conclude that political theory cannot afford to ignore either the theory of heteronormativity or the politics of its subversion.
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Milani, Tommaso M., and Scott Burnett. "Queer counterpoints: Making ‘mistakes’ in loveLife’s ‘Make Your Move’." Sexualities 24, no. 1-2 (March 11, 2020): 67–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719896971.
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Drawing upon queer theory and Said’s notion of the counterpoint, the article analyses the launch episode of a reality television series produced by the South African NGO loveLife, which focused on a young, self-identified lesbian woman in Soweto. We offer a counter example to discourses of the powerless victimhood of Black, gender and sexually non-normative individuals in South African townships. We unveil contrapuntally the pushes and pulls between the voice of the authoritative facilitator, aligned with loveLife’s HIV-prevention and youth leadership development methodology, and that of the young woman herself, who volunteered for the intervention, focusing on their disagreement on how best to ‘accommodate’ the prevailing social norms of contemporary South Africa. We also discuss the counterpoint between us – a discourse analyst observing the effects of particular articulations on South African society related to loveLife’s social aims, and the producer of the episode, charged with the protection of the NGO’s brand identity. We conclude that norms governing gender and sexuality in a rapidly evolving society such as South Africa’s are best understood as presenting analysis with dilemmas and contradictions, and that contrapuntal reading is a valuable tool for bringing these tensions under scrutiny without succumbing to the urge to resolve them.
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Guo, Li. "Hybrid Subjects, Fluid Bonds." Prism 18, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 27–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8922185.
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Abstract This essay offers a study of male homoeroticism in an unconventional and yet seminal nineteenth-century woman-authored tanci work, Fengshuangfei 鳳雙飛 (Phoenixes Flying Together; preface dated 1899) by Cheng Huiying 程蕙英 (before 1859–after 1899). Perhaps the only tanci known today that focuses centrally on male same-sex relations, Phoenixes Flying Together offers a vital example of early modern queer literary tradition by illustrating fluid male-male bonds and hybrid ideals of homosexuality. Such textual representations shift Confucian cardinal relations, redefine the power of nanse, and demonstrate queer identifications beyond heteronormative relations. Reading women's tanci through the intersectional lenses of early modernity, queer theory, and narrativity, this study examines such narratives as an inspiration to initiate a more contextualized epistemological, historical, and methodical understanding of the dynamic textual spaces that harbor same-sex intimacies, erotic desires, and clandestine longings in vernacular traditions. Narratives of male intimacy, camaraderie, and homosexual love in Cheng's text facilitate the construction of queer subjectivities through character focalization and embedded frames of storytelling and thereby reconfigure patrilineal norms of personal, familial, societal, and political relations. Ultimately, when engaged in conversation with global queer discourses, early modern Chinese vernacular narratives foster a culturally situated understanding of queer historiography, as well as the shifting social structures of power that often condition and facilitate nonnormative expressions of gender and sexuality.
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Lindqvist, Siri, and Charlotta Carlström. "Girlfags and guydykes: “Too queer for straights and too straight for queers”." Journal of Positive Sexuality 6, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 45–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.51681/1.621.
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The aim of the article is to highlight the experiences of those who call themselves “girlfags” and “guydykes” and to interpret the identity labels associated with these terms. Online, the communities that refer to themselves by these terms all define the labels and what they signify in terms of identity differently. These include descriptions of people who consider themselves gay but “in the wrong body”, for example, when a woman is sexually oriented toward gay men or when a man is sexually oriented toward lesbian women, most often with a gender or queer element to the definitions. Little to no previous research can be found on these identities, and what is known is mainly found on internet blogs and forums. The participants were sought through a Facebook forum, resulting in a total of 11 interviews with two guydykes and nine girlfags. The results were analyzed within the framework of social constructionism and applied with Butler’s (1990) concept of the heterosexual matrix and van Anders’ (2015) Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT), involving concepts of gender/sex sexuality, nurturance, and eroticism. The results show that those who identify as girlfags and guydykes are proud of their identity, but the complexity of the identity nevertheless affects many aspects of their lives. The respondents reveal how the labels involve one’s sense of self and gender identity. In addition, they touch upon transgender issues, sexual identity, sexual orientation, and other relational aspects. These identities break gender norms, sexual practices, and even sexual orientations within the LGBT context. The results indicate the need for further research on transgender issues; in particular, the relational and social aspects of the girlfag and guydyke identities.
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Nelson, Rosie. "‘What do bisexuals look like? I don’t know!’ Visibility, gender, and safety among plurisexuals." Journal of Sociology 56, no. 4 (June 22, 2020): 591–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783320911455.
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Plurisexuals are often interpreted as half gay/half straight due to the prevailing belief that multigendered attractions are temporary, or illusory. This interpretation is also strongly connected to the gender binary, gender norms, and cisnormativity. Based on these social forces, this article explores how plurisexuals represent themselves in a culture that does not see their identities as viable, often through the use of gender norms. Informed by queer theory, this research is based on semi-structured interviews (n = 30) and photo diaries (n = 9). Findings demonstrate that plurisexuals wish to present visually, but are not certain of how to do so. Plurisexuals see gender and sexuality as connected, and reference transforming outfits through feminization or masculinization. Finally, plurisexuals reference the homophobic, monosexist, transphobic social world by describing how they communicate gender and sexual identities only in certain spaces, or for certain audiences.
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Yiu, Mimi. "Sounding the Space between Men: Choric and Choral Cities in Ben Jonson's Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 122, no. 1 (January 2007): 72–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2007.122.1.72.
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In Ben Jonson's Epicoene, the misanthropic Morose pathologically seals his home against the “common noises” of London, “turning Turk” against his neighbors. What opens up the queer space of Morose's home, ironically, is his equally queer marriage to a cross-dressed boy, a travesty of marital domesticity that parallels the urban travesty of spatial isolation. While the eventual breaching of architectural and gender facades seems to reinscribe social norms, Jonson's play profoundly questions how we construct the space of home, the space of self. Indeed, by setting Epicoene near the Whitefriars theater, where the play was first performed, Jonson adopts chorographic techniques to represent “home” to viewers drawn from that social and spatial milieu. Through a reconsideration of Plato's chora, this essay explores how a vengeful community wrenches open Morose's closet-cum-home, forcing him to renounce his manhood and reducing him to a nonsubject.
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Panthee, Shree Krishna. "Exploring the Issues of Social Inclusion in Queer Identities." Prithvi Academic Journal 2 (May 1, 2019): 80–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/paj.v2i0.31509.
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This is a qualitative study to explore the issues and status of social inclusion of queer identities i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT). For this purpose, using the purposive technique, ten samples from Kathmandu and Pokhara were taken for interview along with a participatory observation. The generated data were presented in paraphrasing, verbatim, and case study form. The secondary data were reflexively embedded throughout the analysis. Confidentiality and cultural safety were maintained through the use of pseudo name in the study. The theory of recognition and the queer theory were used to make a discussion more trustworthy. The empirical data show that gender identity, relationships; social exclusion; effects of consumerism; school enrolment, and environment; employment, rental discrimination; polysexuality; sexual violence; and legalization of same-sex marriage or partnership were surfaced as the major issues of LGBT in Nepal. The empirical data also show that different people have different levels of exclusion. The identity issue against relationship is found a major threat for their inclusion. However, they were less worried about their own identity than their social relationships. Hence, they were compelled to maintain double standard identities because of the fear of relationship breakup. In this context, some steps are needed to be initiated for their inclusion, such as making gender and sexuality responsive policies and laws; institutionalizing collective identity; evading genderism, stereotyped stigma and superstitions; incorporating indigenous moralities and wisdom; improving heteropatriarchal norms; providing opportunity and environment of education; and making sexuality and LGBT friendly school curriculum and environment.
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CAMPBELL, ALYSON. "FromBogeymantoBison: A Herd-Like Amnesia of HIV/AIDS in Theatre?" Theatre Research International 36, no. 3 (August 30, 2011): 196–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883311000447.
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Queer theorists from across a broad range of disciplines argue that we are in a ‘normalizing’ or ‘homonormative’ period, in which marginalized subjectivities strive to align themselves with hegemonic norms. In terms of LGBTQ rights and representation, it can be argued that this has resulted in an increased visibility of ‘desirable’ gays (monogamous – ideally civil-partnered, white, financially independent, able-bodied) and the decreased visibility of ‘undesirable’ gays (the sick, the poor, the non-white, the non-gender-conforming). Focusing specifically on the effects of this hierarchy on the contemporary theatrical representation of gay HIV/AIDS subjectivities, this article looks at two performances, Reza Abdoh'sBogeyman(1991) and Lachlan Philpott'sBison(2009–10). The article argues that HIV/AIDS performance is as urgently necessary today as in the early 1990s, and that a queer dramaturgy, unafraid to resist the lure of normativity or the ‘gaystreaming’ of LGBT representation, is a vital intervention strategy in contemporary (LGBT) theatre.
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Stokoe, Kayte. "Fucking the Body, Rewriting the Text: Proto-Queer Embodiment through Textual Drag in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) and Monique Wittig's Le Corps lesbien (1973)." Paragraph 41, no. 3 (November 2018): 301–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2018.0273.
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Inspired by Judith Butler's conceptualization of drag as ‘gender parody’, I develop the conceptual frame of ‘textual drag’ in order to define and examine the relationship between parody, satire and gender. I test this frame by reading two seminal feminist works, Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) and Monique Wittig's Le Corps lesbien (The Lesbian Body) (1973). Both texts lend themselves particularly persuasively to analysis with this frame, as they each use parodic strategies to facilitate proto-queer satirical critiques of reductive gender norms. Orlando deploys an exaggerated nineteenth-century biographical style, which foregrounds the protagonist's gender fluidity and her developing critique of the norms and systems that surround her, while Le Corps lesbien rewrites canonical romance narratives from a lesbian perspective, challenging the heterosexism inherent in these narratives and providing new modes of thinking about gender, desire and sexual interaction.
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Harjunen, Catarina. "Queer Perspectives on Erotic Human-Supernatural Encounters in Finland-Swedish Folk Legends." lambda nordica 24, no. 1 (July 28, 2019): 46–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.34041/ln.v24.564.
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Despite numerous studies with various perspectives on the folk legend, the Nordic context is still lacking in studies that combine concepts of queerness and posthumanism with folk legends. This article focuses on Swedish folk legends in Finland that depict erotic encounters between humans and nature spirits. The three example legends used were collected in rural Swedish-speaking parts of Finland in 1890, 1898, and 1917. They all tell of encounters between humans (men) and spirits (females) that take place in nature, a place traditionally perceived as the home of these spirits. The erotic character of the encounters is determined not only by direct sexual interactions, but also within a frame of ambience, language, and acts. By using a combination of queer theory and posthumanist concepts, I challenge the ideas of normative sexual behaviour expressed in the material. A queer reading reveals transgressions within gender-normative behaviour and also interesting contradictions in which gender norms are abided by. The inter-species relationship between human and spirit can be seen as queer, but at the same time, it is normative or pursues normativity. The posthumanist approach results in the dissolution of the theoretical nature/culture dichotomy. The relationship between human and spirit can be viewed as that of companion species; a relationship based on the desire to connect, as well as a mutual past, present, and future.
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Draper, Jimmy, and Andrea M. McDonnell. "Fashioning Multiplatform Masculinities." Men and Masculinities 21, no. 5 (March 6, 2017): 645–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x17696190.
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Scholarly interest in the potential of personal style blogging to intervene in fashion media’s gendered norms has focused on women and femininity. To assess the implications for men and masculinity, this article examines gay male bloggers’ self-representational practices. Through interviews and textual analysis, we find their uses of different digital platforms reproduce and confront the heteronormativity of men’s fashion media in ways that speak to their status as bloggers in the industry. Specifically, their desire to demonstrate recognizable forms of fashion expertise keeps their blogs disciplined by industry norms of masculinity even as the need to self-brand encourages queer self-expression across other social media. We thus argue the ways in which bloggers embrace platforms’ technological affordances to engage multiple audiences are central to theorizing how their labor produces different discourses and depictions of masculinity. This builds on arguments made by gender and sexuality scholars to explain the significance of gay men’s fashion.
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Laguian, Claire. "Mujeres poetas que deshacen las normas del género: del canibalismo erótico al pornoterrorismo en la España del siglo XXI." Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 61–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/preh.2018.6.1.802.
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En esta contribución, se estudian los ataques de la poesía lesbiana y queer española del siglo xxi a las convenciones poéticas y de género, dentro de las esferas de la escritura pornográfica en una veintena de poemarios recientes. Con perspectivas de Queer y Gender studies, se analizan las modalidades poéticas de rehabilitación de las voces lesbianas eróticas en genealogías literarias ocultadas por las normas heteropatriarcales. La omnipresencia de los deseos vampíricos, caníbales y la reescritura del “cuerpo lesbiano” en voz propia permiten desembocar sobre el análisis de las subversiones poéticas BDSM que llevan a cabo las poetas. También se remite en este artículo a la expresión poética de sexualidades transgresoras heredadas de los movimientos posporno, queer y pornoterrorista, este último concepto siendo creado por la activista Diana J. Torres.
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Berg, Margaret A. "Teens’ explorations of gender and sexual identities in conversations about/around preferred texts." Journal of Language and Sexuality 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 15–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.1.1.02ber.
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This discourse analysis examines teens’ explorations of gender and sexual identities through their talk about their preferred texts accessed in the Young Adult section of a Midwestern public library. The discourse data collected over a two year period and analyzed using a recursive, ethnographic-style approach is informed by queer theory and New Literacy Studies. The practices of teens in the library complicate popular and scholarly discourse that constructs teens as peer-oriented, hormonally-controlled, and transitioning into adulthood. Their practices illustrate savvy, individual choices that allow teens to subvert the heterosexual norms of the adult controlled schools. The close connection between literacy choices and identity implies a need for educators to advocate for adolescents’ access to their preferred texts.
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Dhoest, Alexander. "Intersectional identifications: Ethnicity and sexuality among diasporic queer women in Belgium." Ethnicities 20, no. 5 (September 9, 2019): 1025–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796819873255.
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While research on migration and diasporas tends to be heteronormative, research on sexual minorities tends to ignore migrants and ethnic minorities. The current paper aims to problematize both tendencies by taking a queer perspective on migration and a diasporic perspective on sexuality. As part of a larger project on diasporic LGBTQs living in Belgium, this paper discusses the social positions and identifications of six non-heterosexual women with a migration background, as narrated in individual in-depth interviews. Drawing on intersectionality theory, the relative importance and mutual interplay between their sexual and ethno-cultural identifications are analysed. This analysis discloses the irreducible individuality of each narrative, where the balance and interaction between ethno-cultural and sexual identifications is part of an intricate interplay of social positions and contexts. The participants’ migration background is a key structuring element, leading to a combination of geographic and/or social distance from their family and ethno-cultural community in which religious, family and gender norms lead to a range of expectations and pressures. Sexual identifications tend to be more salient when they are strongly rejected, in which case they lead to more social and often also geographic distancing. This is further modulated by race, as non-white participants tend to identify more strongly along racial lines because they are continuously reminded of their otherness.
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McGlashan, Hayley, and Katie Fitzpatrick. "LGBTQ youth activism and school: challenging sexuality and gender norms." Health Education 117, no. 5 (August 7, 2017): 485–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/he-10-2016-0053.
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Purpose Previous research examining the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) youth in schools suggests that schools are not inclusive places for non-heterosexual students. Some scholars, however, suggest that a continued focus on how these young people are marginalised is itself a problem, and that research should also focus on strengths and what is working. The purpose of this paper is to examine the activities of a group of LGBTQ students in one school in Auckland, New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach The study employed a critical ethnographic approach in a diverse co-educational, public high school in Auckland, New Zealand. The researcher spent 3-5 days per week at the school throughout three terms (32 weeks) of the 2016 school year and participated, observed and interviewed students and teachers. Post-structural theory was used to analyse the ethnographic materials. Findings The study found that LGBTQ students actively challenged the heteronorms of their school. They met regularly to discuss issues, support each other and to plan activist initiatives. These initiatives, in turn, impacted the environment of the school and made LGBTQ students more visible. This visibility, however, also created tensions as students grappled with their identities and the public space of school. Originality/value Despite a wealth of research in education on the exclusion of young people at the intersection of gender, sexuality and other identity positions, there is very little research that reports on school-wide health promotion initiatives that both engage young people as leaders and participants in their schools, and work towards creating safe and empowering spaces for LGBTQ youth.
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Harvey, Keith. "Describing camp talk: language/pragmatics/politics." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 9, no. 3 (August 2000): 240–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394700000900303.
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This article uses literary examples from English-language and French-language postwar fiction to elaborate a descriptive framework for representations of camp talk. The framework is based on four underlying semiotic strategies that produce a variety of surface textual effects (stylistic and pragmatic). The strategies are called Paradox, Inversion, Ludicrism and Parody. The effects they generate range from register play, through puns, to innuendo. The article argues that these effects contribute to the development of fictional representations of homosexual/gay/queer characters in postwar fiction and also to the elaboration of a gay critique of dominant cultural norms and practices. As such, the four strategies may also, it is suggested, underpin other (visual, gestural) semiotic regimes.
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Butterfield, Leah. "Towards a feminist politics of mobility: U.S. Travel and immigration memoirs." Feminismo/s, no. 36 (December 3, 2020): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/2020.36.06.
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This paper challenges longstanding cultural associations that link men to mobility and women to stability by outlining what I term a feminist politics of mobility. Bringing together four contemporary memoirs that foreground journeys, I explore how U.S. women embody and represent their mobility, as well as how movement shapes their relationships to global power structures and to norms of gender and sexuality. I draw on feminist geography, feminist and queer theory, memoir studies and mobility scholarship to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love (2006), Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us (2012), Daisy Hernández’s A Cup of Water Under My Bed (2014), and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild (2012). Highlighting the differences between these authors’ journeys as well as the patterns across them, I ultimately find that these memoirists model a feminist politics of mobility, wherein moving through space redistributes power to women and renegotiates social relations that have historically supported women’s subordination.
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Cerezo, Alison, Chelsey Williams, Mariah Cummings, Derek Ching, and Meredith Holmes. "Minority Stress and Drinking: Connecting Race, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation." Counseling Psychologist 48, no. 2 (November 25, 2019): 277–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011000019887493.
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We carried out a constructivist grounded theory-based qualitative exploration on the relations between intersectional minority stress and drinking among a community sample of 20 Latinx and African American sexual minority, gender expansive women. Our overarching goal was to illuminate the nuanced ways in which participants’ lived experiences; in relation to race and ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation, intersected to create complex forms of minority stress rarely captured in the research literature. Semi-structured interviews and lifeline methodology were employed to assess participants’ major life stressors and drinking history; particularly, when and how drinking became a regular part of participants’ lives. Our findings indicated that drinking was primarily connected to same-sex romantic partnerships, cultural and familial ties to alcohol, social norms within queer spaces, familial rejection and loss of racial and ethnic community, and chronic stress. Recommendations for research, practice, advocacy, education, and training are discussed.
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Butterfield, Leah. "Towards a feminist politics of mobility: U.S. Travel and immigration memoirs." Feminismo/s, no. 36 (December 3, 2020): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/fem.2020.36.06.
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This paper challenges longstanding cultural associations that link men to mobility and women to stability by outlining what I term a feminist politics of mobility. Bringing together four contemporary memoirs that foreground journeys, I explore how U.S. women embody and represent their mobility, as well as how movement shapes their relationships to global power structures and to norms of gender and sexuality. I draw on feminist geography, feminist and queer theory, memoir studies and mobility scholarship to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love (2006), Reyna Grande’s The Distance Between Us (2012), Daisy Hernández’s A Cup of Water Under My Bed (2014), and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild (2012). Highlighting the differences between these authors’ journeys as well as the patterns across them, I ultimately find that these memoirists model a feminist politics of mobility, wherein moving through space redistributes power to women and renegotiates social relations that have historically supported women’s subordination.
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Wagaman, M. Alex, Rae Caballero Obejero, and James S. Gregory. "Countering the Norm, (Re)authoring Our Lives." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 17, no. 1 (September 14, 2018): 160940691880064. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406918800646.
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Counterstorytelling, a methodology that is rooted in critical race theory, is undergirded by principles that are beneficial to understanding the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identified (LGBTQ) young people from an intersectional perspective. Counterstorytelling holds promise as a method that creates opportunities for individual transformation and resistance to dominant narratives among young people facing systemic oppression. This article outlines the design and implementation of a counterstorytelling study with LGBTQ youth and reflects on the value and associated challenges of counterstorytelling as a participatory research method.
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Ruffolo, David V. "Queering Child/Hood Policies: Canadian Examples and Perspectives." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 10, no. 3 (January 1, 2009): 291–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2009.10.3.291.
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This article examines how notions of ‘child’ and ‘childhood’ are produced in relation to recent early childhood policies in Ontario, Canada. It centers on an ongoing shift from Foucauldian disciplinary societies to Deleuzian control societies where it is argued that early childhood subjects (researchers, students, educators, administrators, and parents) are becoming less confined to specific spaces and tasks and are more controlled by the flows of knowledge, information, and communication. Current public policy debates are used to explore how early childhood education (ece) is becoming increasingly aligned with neoliberal calls for privatization, corporatization, and marketization. For instance, evidence-based practices and quality control indicators are quickly replacing developmental norms that have traditionally normalized and abnormalized children. The consequences of these transformations are examined using queer theory as a critical lens to explore how the identities of ECE subjects are deeply implicated in social, cultural, political, and economic factors — influences that are changing as a result of the shift from discipline to control.
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Levitt, Heidi M. "A Psychosocial Genealogy of LGBTQ+ Gender: An Empirically Based Theory of Gender and Gender Identity Cultures." Psychology of Women Quarterly 43, no. 3 (April 14, 2019): 275–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684319834641.
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In this invited article, I present an inclusive theory of gender that clarifies its interconnections with gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. To support this functionalist theory, I summarize findings from an extensive body of mixed methods research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other (LGBTQ+) genders in the United States. I use a feminist-intersectional lens to empirically base and historically situate a theory of gender that is grounded in research of LGBTQ+ communities (butch, femme, bear, leathermen, transgender, drag queens, and family/house systems). I define genders as either sets of personal qualities within a culture associated with physiological sex or sets of qualities that evolve in reaction to limitations of existing genders. The evolution of genders functions to meet needs in four domains: (1) psychological: an experience of fit between a core aspect of self and a gender construct; (2) cultural: the creation of an LGBTQ+ culture that asserts sets of gender characteristics, which were denied and stigmatized within preexisting cultural norms; (3) interpersonal: the communicating of affiliation and status to enhance safety; and (4) sexual: an erotic embodiment of signifiers of these needs via an aesthetic that structures sexual attraction. I detail how each function affects identity, security, belonging, and personal and social values. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index
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Abinaya Sudha, M., and M. Ashitha Varghese. "The Cultural Silencing of LGBT Voices in India with Reference to Do the Needful: A Radio Play." Shanlax International Journal of English 7, no. 4 (September 1, 2019): 65–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v7i4.614.
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Culture deliberates the arts and philosophy, which are considered to be important for the development of civilization and mentality of the people. In a multicultural and multilingual country like India marginalisation of certain communities, including homosexual, is a significant problem that threads the fabric of our society. In modern society, gender and sexuality-based discrimination are witnessed all over the world. The term homosexuality has never gained social acceptance and has been treated down the ages as taboo subjects. Although sexual desires are a matter of instinctive behaviour, yet are controlled by social norms and morals. Therefore, heterosexuality is the only acceptable mode of relationship and is considered as a centre to our culture. The homosexual relationships are still stigmatized as unnatural and unacceptable in Indian social context and therefore often hidden under the shroud of privacy. Mahesh Dattani, an Indian writer, has chosen such taboo subjects and treated them with great confidence and sublimity to bring them from the boundary to the main stream. This paper focuses on the pathetic conditions of those who struggle between instinct and social culture concerning queer theory in the play DO THE NEEDFUL: A RADIO PLAY by Mahesh Dattani.
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Cockayne, Daniel G. "Underperformative economies: Discrimination and gendered ideas of workplace culture in San Francisco’s digital media sector." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 50, no. 4 (January 25, 2018): 756–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18754883.
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Drawing on recent research in feminist and cultural economic geography, as well as queer and affect theory, in this paper I examine the construction of ideas of workplace culture in the context of digital media work in San Francisco. I argue that in this context, workplace culture is produced as an idea that functions to describe certain individuals and behaviors as in or out of alignment with the firm’s established and gendered norms. I frame these observations around a discussion of affect and emotion in the workplace through a critical examination of interviews with workers in this setting. Drawing on Ngai’s framing of confidence as the tone of capitalism, and Berlant’s notion of underperformativity, I emphasize the gendered and affective dimensions of accumulation in the digital media sector, and how ideas of culture are discursively and materially constructed rather than natural or existing prior to their circumstances of production. In a practical sense, reproductions of a culture–economy dualism implicate gendered and other forms of discrimination in the workplace in terms of hiring practices, uneven distributions of (often emotional and unremunerated) work, and how difference in the workplace is valued or undermined.
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Linander, Ida, Erika Alm, Isabel Goicolea, and Lisa Harryson. "“It was like I had to fit into a category”: Care-seekers’ experiences of gender regulation in the Swedish trans-specific healthcare." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 23, no. 1 (May 19, 2017): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459317708824.
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The few previous studies investigating regulation of gender in trans-specific healthcare are mainly based on text material and interviews with care-providers or consist solely of theoretical analyses. There is a lack of studies analysing how the regulation of gender is expressed in the care-seeker’s own experiences, especially in a Nordic context. The aim of this study is to analyse narratives of individuals with trans experiences (sometimes called transgender people) to examine how gender performances can be regulated in trans-specific care in Sweden. The conceptual framework is inspired by trans studies, a Foucauldian analysis of power, queer phenomenology and the concept of cisnormativity. Fourteen interviews with people with trans experiences are analysed with constructivist grounded theory. The participants’ experiences indicate that gender is constructed as norm-conforming, binary and stable in trans-specific healthcare. This gendered position is resisted, negotiated and embraced by the care-seekers. Norms and discourses both inside and outside trans-specific care contribute to the regulation and limit the room for action for care-users. We conclude that a trans-specific care that has a confirming approach to its care-users, instead of the current focus on gender norm conformity, has the potential to increase the self-determination of gender performance and increase the quality of care.
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Bollas, Angelos. "Literature as Activism - From Entertainment to Challenging Social Norms: Michael Nava’s Goldenboy (1988)." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 9, no. 1 (January 31, 2020): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.9n.1p.50.
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The aim of this article is to examine how Michael Nava appropriates the conventions of Detective/Crime Fiction to engage in artivism, whereby art is used to challenge sexual and ethnic social oppression and inequality. By providing an analysis of the heteronormative conventions of the Detective and Crime Fiction genre, the article focuses on the ways in which narratives portray homophobic violence, as well as on the fact that such portrayals result from and contribute to the promotion of heteronormative hegemonies. Following this, I focus on Michael Nava’s Goldenboy (1988) and I analyse Nava’s writing in relation to the wider Chicano tradition of using art to engage in activism, what has been termed as ‘artivism.’ The central argument of this paper is that Nava ‘queers’ the form of the Detective Fiction genre to highlight the shortcomings of our society, the effects of the hegemonial heteronormativity, and the need for social change.
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Bellomi, Paola. "Propp porno: las fabulosas categorías de la novelística de Silvia C. Carpallo." Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 83–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/preh.2018.6.1.803.
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La novelística porno y erótica sigue, en múltiples aspectos, los recursos propios de las fábulas, según la teorización de V. Propp, para construir su discurso narrativo; se trata de un discurso que muy a menudo intenta reglamentar y normalizar el escándalo que el sexo supone en nuestra sociedad hetero-dominante. La novelística de Silvia C. Carpallo servirá para reflexionar sobre la aportación que el género erótico está haciendo en la defensa o en el derrumbe de la ideología del poder dominante. Mi punto de vista se servirá de la perspectiva queer de la escuela italiana actual y, en particular, de las propuestas de los filósofos Michela Marzano y Lorenzo Bernini, en línea con J. Butler, A. Cavarero y M. Foucault. El propósito es reflexionar sobre las categorías de pensamiento que la literatura erótica española contemporánea está defendiendo y poner al descubierto sus mecanismos de ruptura o de conservación de la norma.
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Cannamela, Danila. "“I am an atypical mother”: Motherhood and maternal language in Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto’s poetry." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 55, no. 1 (February 14, 2021): 85–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014585821991848.
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In her debut book Dolore minimo, Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto engages in a reflection on motherhood to recount an autobiographical story of gender self-determination and male to female transition. This article explores Vivinetto’s poetry as the retelling of transformative moments in two mother–daughter relationships, which generate a reshaping of life and language. In the book, these two storylines intersect, blur, and even overlap, creating a poetic discourse in which the maternal acts simultaneously as powerful catalyzer and producer of meanings. In discussing how, in Dolore minimo, the relationship of two atypical mothers becomes the creative site of a new possible symbolic order, my analysis engages an atypical approach: it reads Vivinetto’s queer representation of motherhood via the theorization developed by the women of Diotima—including, in particular, Luisa Muraro, Chiara Zamboni, Diana Sartori, and Ida Dominijanni. These feminist thinkers have been generally criticized for reinforcing binary understandings of sex and gender, based on an essentialist view of the category of woman. Yet, what if the feminism forwarded by Diotima, by positioning the feminine as a creative producer and first-person narrator of change, could still offer a productive avenue for dialogue? The article begins with a discussion of Diotima’s key theorizations, which lays the groundwork for interpreting the maternal poetics of Dolore minimo. The subsequent sections examine in more depth how Vivinetto’s poetry has reinvented the figure of the mother as a teacher and learner of new words, and how, through this reinvention, she has crafted a maternal language that knits together new relations of contiguity and change. Ultimately, by redeploying the figure of the mother beyond cisgender norms, Vivinetto’s poetry is revealing the inexhaustible vitality of this character.
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Constant, Chloé. "The dispositif of prison sexuality: transphobic violence in a Mexican male prison." Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice 6, no. 3 (April 13, 2020): 231–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcrpp-01-2020-0015.
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Purpose The aim of this study is to analyze how the dispositif of sexuality operates toward trans women imprisoned in a male prison in Mexico City, to understand how sexual norms that come from the heteropatriarchal model so as from the “internal law” produce transphobic violence. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on the queer theory, Foucault’s works on sexuality and power, Segato’s theory about war against women’s bodies and on a fieldwork realized between 2015 and 2019 in Mexico City, with prisoners and former prisoners. Findings The sexuality dispositif works in a particular way inside prison. It is the result of the heteropatriarchal model and laws defined by both prisoners and prison workers, all involved in the Mexican war context. The effects are materialized through violence toward trans* women whose bodies serve for rape, male appropriation and exchange between powerful subjects. Research limitations/implications This paper produces knowledge about imprisonned trans* people, a very few developped field in prison studies, especially in Latin America. Practical implications The paper demonstrates how specific violence toward trans* women imprisoned in a male prison in Mexico City deepens violent dynamics that occur out of the prison. So, it questions the meaning of a sentence in the actual Mexican prison system. It may help to think about staff’s training/education to guarantee basic human rights for imprisoned trans* people. Additionally, the theorization of “internal law” could help prison authorities to rethink classification and treatment for prisoners. Social implications This paper provide specific knowledge on imprisonned trans* women and helps to think and act different with this people through the understanding of their special vulnerability. Originality/value There are only a few papers about imprisoned trans population throughout the world and fewer in Latin America and Mexico. Additionally, this paper aims to overcome the “internal order” as it is always theorized as proper of detainees. It wants to show that the prison order in a Mexico City prison, borns from the meeting of cultural specificities from outside and inside, and from both prisoners, organized crime and prison staff.
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LaBrada, Eloy. "Categories We Die For: Ameliorating Gender in Analytic Feminist Philosophy." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 2 (March 2016): 449–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.2.449.
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What it is to be gendered remains a disputed topic in feminist philosophy, not to mention in the quotidian struggle over gender categories as they are lived and questioned outside the academy. In this paper I want to explore what contemporary work in analytic feminist philosophy can tell us about how the “categories we live by,” or the categories that organize our social lives and constitute our identities, can sometimes render life unlivable because of their restrictive or oppressive effects (Kapusta; Ásta Sveinsdóttir, “Metaphysics”; Butler, Undoing 4 and Notes). The phrase “categories we die for” captures this ambiguity. On the one hand, many of us have died, and continue to, for gender categories that we couldn't, or refused to, live up to. Think of the violence done in the name of normative and regulatory gender ideals to gender nonconformists—those who do not find a place in gender binarism (“man/woman”) or sexual dimorphism (“male/female”). Queer populations continue to be vulnerable to marginalization, pathologization, and aggression for not doing their gender, sex, or sexuality “correctly” (i.e., heteronormatively or cisnormatively). In this sense, social categories and norms can ruin lives, and we ought to argue against their restrictive regulation. On the other hand, we are also willing to stand behind, defend, and even sacrifice ourselves for gender categories that promise to make life more livable, flexible, and sustainable for those we cherish (Kapusta; Butler, Undoing). When we fight for the recognition of categories like “genderqueer,” “trans∗,” and “agender” we seem to be saying that these are categories worth dying for (a further issue, we will see, is whether binary gender categories like “man” and “woman” per se are worth dying for, or whether the effort to make these existing categories more inclusive is). The contemporary struggle to expand the compass of gender terms and concepts, to expand the sense of the livable, seeks to make categories more inclusive. When we mobilize for trans∗ inclusiveness, gender variance, intersex visibility, and more, we are fighting for categories to be protected, in law and in life. So, to speak of “categories we are dying for,” as I will, implies both a punitive sense (“categories due to which many of us die”) and a positive sense (“categories worth dying for”). Depending on their uses and effects, gender categories can make or break one's life.
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Fielding, Dan Michael. "Queernormativity: Norms, values, and practices in social justice fandom." Sexualities 23, no. 7 (January 14, 2020): 1135–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719884021.
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What, if anything, is the queer project? Queer theorists have detailed the ways that gays and lesbians, and transgender people, de-radicalize a potentially queer upsetting of heteronormative systems. Homonormativity and transnormativity have been used to describe the ways that marginalized sexualities and genders are rendered heteronormative. These concepts are important, yet incomplete to capture the experiences of queer people for two reasons. First, they equate ‘normativity’ always with ‘ heteronormativity,’ surrendering the ability to define ‘the normal’ to heteronormative constructions. Second, they render invisible the work done by queer people to redefine the normative in ways that dismantle heteronormativity and affirm queer identities. Through interviews (n = 39), my study works to rectify these twin issues by illuminating the ways queer social actors actively work to redefine what it means to be normative, resulting in queernormativity.
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Watson, Katherine. "Queer Theory." Group Analysis 38, no. 1 (March 2005): 67–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0533316405049369.
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Minton, Henry L. "Queer Theory." Theory & Psychology 7, no. 3 (June 1997): 337–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354397073003.
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Sanchez, Melissa E. "Queer Theory, Queer Historicism: Recent Works." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 19, no. 2 (2019): 141–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0023.
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Malinowitz, Harriet, and Diana Fuss. "Queer Theory: Whose Theory?" Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 13, no. 2 (1993): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3346735.
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Sinclair, Ian. "After Queer Theory." Journal of the International Network for Sexual Ethics & Politics 2, no. 2 (July 27, 2015): 92–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/insep.v2i2.19850.
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Keegan, Cáel M. "Against Queer Theory." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 7, no. 3 (August 1, 2020): 349–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-8552978.
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Abstract The author explores how current disciplinary conditions force trans studies against queer theory: Because queer theory is the institutional context through which trans studies is invited into the university, it is also the containing ideological architecture against which trans studies must articulate itself. Trans studies is therefore pressed “against” queer theory as a discursive surface in a manner that limits it from being able to exit this disciplinary scenario.
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Lee, Wenshu. "Kuaering Queer Theory." Journal of Homosexuality 45, no. 2-4 (September 23, 2003): 147–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j082v45n02_07.
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Jagose, Annamarie. "Feminism's Queer Theory." Feminism & Psychology 19, no. 2 (May 2009): 157–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353509102152.
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Rehberg, Peter. "QUEER AFFECT THEORY." Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 9, no. 17-2 (September 26, 2017): 63–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/zfmw-2017-0208.
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