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Giragosian, Sarah. "Queer creatures, queer times." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3633190.
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Queer Creatures, Queer Times makes a critical intervention in queer theory and queer poetics through a combination of critical and creative approaches to explore how posthumanist thought and animal studies might correct a blindspot in current critical work on queer experience and texts. Queer theory tends to neglect non/human subjects, yet an ecological and posthumanist critique helps to trouble its humanist bias as well as its overly neat ties to constructivist and performative notions of selfhood. I argue that modern lyric poetry, in emergence during the cultural transmission of Darwinian precepts and the social invention of the homosexual, is uniquely situated to challenge the exclusivist principles that underlie specieisim, Social Darwinism, and heterosexism. While queer theory tends to overlook evolution in the construction of subjectivity and sexuality, I posit that such tendencies diminish opportunities for thinking through non-coherent selfhood and the radical contingency of beings upon other life forms. Accompanying my critical essays on three modernist queer poets, Djuna Barnes, Elizabeth Bishop, and Marianne Moore, are my poetics essay entitled "Towards a Poetics of the Animal" and my poetry manuscript Queer Fish. Both poetic texts explore non-dominant forms of queer relation between animals and humans.
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Rauchut, Franziska. "Wie queer ist Queer? : sprachphilosophische Reflexionen zur deutschsprachigen akademischen "Queer"-Debatte /." Königstein/Taunus : Helmer, 2008. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3045857&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Bierschenk, Iris. "Kreuz und Queer queere Erzählstrukturen in der schwedischen Jugendliteratur." Hamburg Kovač, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1001215168/04.
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Honka, L. M. (Laura-Maarit). "Queer-pedagogiikkaa peruskoulussa:kahden opetusmateriaalin analyysi queer-näkökulmasta." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2014. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201412052119.
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Peruskoulu tavoittaa kaikki lapset maassamme ja toimii arvojen ja asenteiden eteenpäin viejänä. Tämän takia on kiinnitettävä huomiota siihen mitä arvoja ja asenteita koulumme edustaa. Peruskoulu Suomessa edustaa heteronormatiivista maailmankuvaa, jossa ihmiset ovat oletusarvoisesti heteroseksuaaleja ja sukupuolia nähdään olevan kaksi. Heteronormatiivisuus on vallan muoto, joka hiljentää muiden kuin heteroseksuaalien äänet. Tämän tutkimuksen näkökulma on queer-teoriassa; näin ollen tämä tutkimus pyrkii haastamaan heteronormatiivisia rakenteita tuomalla esiin opetusmateriaalia, jota opettajat voisivat käyttää tuodakseen seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöjen äänet kuuluviin.
Tutkimuksen viitekehyksenä on queer-teoria ja -pedagogiikka, joihin liittyvät käsitteet heteronormatiivisuus, seksuaalinen suuntautuminen ja sukupuolen moninaisuus. Näiden käsitteiden pohtiminen olisi opettajalle tärkeää, jotta hän voisi opettaa ja keskustella sukupuolesta ja seksuaalisesta suuntautumisesta omassa luokassaan. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan myös sitä, kuinka heteronormatiiviset rakenteet vaikuttavat seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöihin kuuluviin oppilaisiin. Queer-näkökulman sisältävää opetusmateriaalia alakouluun löytyy hyvin vähän. Tässä työssä esitellään kaksi opetusmateriaalia: Ready, set, respect! GLSEN’s elementary school toolkit (RSR) ja Creating Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit (CSS toolkit), jotka on analysoitu queer-pedagogiikan näkökulmasta. Laadullinen sisällönanalyysi osoittaa, että RSR soveltuu käytettäväksi alakouluun, mutta materiaalin queer-näkökulma on heikko. CSS toolkit on suunniteltu yläkoulun puolelle ja siinä queer-näkökulma on vahvasti esillä.
Peruskoulun opetussuunnitelma uudistuu 2016 ja samaan aikaan peruskouluihin tulee uusia vaatimuksia tasa-arvo- ja yhdenvertaisuuslain muutosten myötä. Nämä uudistukset luovat hyvät lähtökohdat queer-näkökulman sisältävälle sukupuolitietoiselle opetukselle. Valmis opetusmateriaali ja päättäjien tuki on ensiarvoisen tärkeää onnistuneelle queer-näkökulman sisältävälle sukupuolitietoiselle opetukselle.
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Pećić, Zoran. "Queer tactical diaspora : reading Caribbean queer narratives." Thesis, Bangor University, 2010. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/queer-tactical-diaspora-reading-caribbean-queer-narratives(fc40e4b2-17f6-41cf-ba3e-63e5af9e50c7).html.
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Acquiring a wide currency in the 1990s as a term designating non-normative practices and identity formations, queer studies challenged dominant knowledges and social hierarchies of heteronormativity as well as the sexual homogeneity of earlier feminist critique. Whilst acknowledging the impact and efficacy of queer theory, this thesis poses the question: how can queer studies be utilised beyond the borders of Euro-America? More precisely, what happens when we intersect queer studies with postcolonial studies? This thesis argues that by exploring the interstices between the two fields, we are able to create a new field of academic research in which social and cultural meanings of sexuality become the main objects of colonial, historical and literary study. By combining queer and postcolonial studies, this thesis questions the validity of both fields. It exposes and explores their shortcomings by looking at the queer diasporic narratives in and from the Caribbean. Queer, diaspora and nation work as central elements, as the thesis investigates the Western notions of sexual identity and belongingness alongside postcolonial deployments of nation, diaspora and sexuality. The focus of this thesis is on the literary genre of queer diasporic literature; that is, diasporic fictions that propose alternative formulations of home and diaspora. One of the main arguments is that queer diasporic fictions challenge hegemonic formulations and constructions of diasporic identity. Thus, they have the potential of adding to the genre of diasporic narratives a queer take on sexuality as well as the nation. Employing the notion of queer tactical diaspora as a methodology, the thesis moves from one theoretical and geographical Caribbean space to the next, deconstructing the developmental model of nonheterosexuality while combining the movement of sexuality with the developmental passage from one fixed boundary into another. By employing queer tactical diaspora, the thesis investigates how narratives of the Caribbean diaspora queer and displace the Eurocentric deployments of sexuality in postcolonial fiction. Defying firm groundings within either diaspora or queer studies, this work employs a range of theoretical paradigms in order to reach the goal of disrupting the Eurocentric notions of sexual diasporic narratives, By building on the already existing theories of gender and postcolonial studies, this thesis suggests that the method of queer tactical diaspora allows for a more agile and flexible investigation into the workings of normative gender and sexuality in the Caribbean. Queer tactical diaspora adds to the broader theories of postcolonialism and gender studies a new method of analysis.
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Sharkey, Grace Anne. "Seeing Yourself On Screen: Queer Pornography, Queer Theory." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/19698.
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Since academic research first began to consider pornography, it has remained a key reference point for discussions of representation and sexuality, particularly for scholars in the fields of feminist and queer studies. The more recently emerging genre of queer pornography—popularly understood to be pornography made by queer people for queer people—thus offers a particularly interesting example for questions about genre, representation and queer politics. This thesis considers what comprises queer pornography when it is situated in a series of related but not identical fields— “porn studies”, theories of representation and identity, genre studies, and feminist queer theory. The first chapter considers how we write about pornography in the academy, tracing in particular the use of anti-pornography feminism within the field of porn studies. The second chapter uses queer pornography to unpack what it means to want to “see yourself on screen”. Across the collected fields of feminist, cultural, sexuality, and screen studies, the concept of “identification” has been key to analysis of pornography but has also become key to understanding the form and effects of pornography outside the academy, with different accounts of identity and representation being tested against pornography. Using feminist film theory, the thesis considers the allure of identification and intersectionality in both academic and popular settings. In the concluding chapters, this thesis asks how the objects of queer pornography and queer theory might speak to each other. Chapter three outlines a genre definition of queer pornography, focusing on its audience and reception, while chapter four takes this account of queer pornography as a site for understanding the queer theoretical debates about anti/normativity. The final chapter draws on the work of Robyn Wiegman to consider how we engage with our scholarly objects in feminist and queer theory. It argues that queer pornography provides insight into queer politics in a post-gay marriage world and contends that queer pornography, and its affective terrain, ultimately represent a kind of queer utopia.
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Rodgers, Jessica. "Australian queer student activists' media representations of queer." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41528/1/Jessica_Rodgers_Thesis.pdf.
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Queer student activists are a visible aspect of Australian tertiary communities. Institutionally there are a number of organisations and tools representing and serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and ‘otherwise queer identifying’ (GLBTIQ) students. ‘Queer’ is a contentious term with meanings ranging from a complex deconstructive academic theory to a term for ‘gay’. Despite the institutional applications, the definition remains unclear and under debate. In this thesis I examine queer student activists’ production of print media, a previously under-researched area. In queer communities, print media provides crucial grounding for a model of queer. Central to identity formation and activism, this media is a site of textuality for the construction and circulation of discourses of queer student media. Thus, I investigate the various ways Australian queer student activists construct queer, queer identity, and queer activism in their print media. I use discourse analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews to enable a thorough investigation of both the process and the products of queer student media. My findings demonstrate that queer student activists’ politics are grounded in a range of ideologies drawing from Marxism, Feminism, Gay Liberation, Anti-assimilation and Queer Theory. Grounded in queer theoretical perspectives of performativity this research makes relatively new links between Queer Theory and Media Studies in its study of the production contexts of queer student media. In doing so, I show how the university context informs student articulations of queer, proving the necessity to locate research within its social-cultural setting. My research reveals that, much like Queer Theory, these representations of queer are rich with paradox. I argue that queer student activists are actually theorising queer. I call for a reconceptualisation of Queer Theory and question the current barriers between who is considered a ‘theorist’ of queer and who is an ‘activist’. If we can think about ‘theory’ as encompassing the work of activists, what implications might this have for politics and analysis?
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Felizardo, Juliano Guimarães. "Estética queer." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UNISUL, 2015. http://www.riuni.unisul.br/handle/12345/490.
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Previous issue date: 2015Esta dissertação retoma o problema das normas heterocentradas, tanto com respeito à ficção das identidades de gênero, quanto ao cerceamento das sexualidades, ruína de toda multiplicidade a se realizar por meio de tecnologias de re-produção de coerência subalternizadora, discorrendo sobre as subalternidades a partir da relação entre os estudos queer e as análises de Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2010). Para isso, conecta as análises de Judith Butler (2013), Paul Beatriz Preciado (2009), Guy Hocquenghem (2009) e Michel Foucault (2014), para poder pensar noutras políticas de subversão que autorizem existências além dos limites impostos aos corpos. De Susan Buck-Morss (2012) e Walter Benjamin (2012), tanto quanto de Georges Bataille (1986), retira as noções de experiências para propor uma estética queer que permita romper com o embaraço normativo, fundado pelo modelo de economia pós-moneísta e suas tecnologias de controle. Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari (2014) contribuem aos esforços desta pesquisa com as multiplicidades e os devires, cujos agenciamentos funcionam como potências que desterritorializam a pretensa coerência de sexo/gênero/desejo. A partir dos conceitos expostos, apresenta, ainda, exemplos de estéticas queer contemporâneas que subvertem as naturalidades e a inteligibilidade, permitindo que as multidões escapem das restrições a que estão sujeitas.
Esta disertación retoma el problema de las normas heterocentradas, tanto al respecto de la ficción de las identidades de género, cuanto a la reducción de las sexualidades, ruina de toda multiplicidad a ser realizada por medio de tecnologías de re-producción de coherencia subalternizadora, disertando sobre las subalternidades a partir de la relación entre los estudios queer y los análisis de Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2010). Para esto, conecta los análisis de Judith Butler (2013), Paul Beatriz Preciado (2009), Guy Hocquenghem (2009) y Michel Foucault (2014), para poder pensar en otras políticas de subversión que autoricen existências más allá de los límites impuestos a los cuerpos. De Susan Buck-Morss (2012) y Walter Benjamin (2012), así como de Georges Bataille (1986), retira las nociones de experiencias para proponer una estética queer que permita romper com la vergüenza normativa, fundado por el modelo de economia post-moneísta y sus tecnologías de control. Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari (2014) contribuyen a los esfuerzos de esta investigación com las multiplicidades y los devenires, cuyos agenciamientos funcionan como potencias que desterritorializan la pretensa coherencia de sexo/género/deseo. A partir de los conceptos expuestos, presenta, aún, ejemplos de estéticas queer contemporáneas que subvierten las naturalidades y la inteligibilidad, permitiendo que las multitudes escapen de las restricciones a que están sujetas.
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Plötz, Andy. "Queer Politics." Universität Leipzig, 2014. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15417.
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Unter Queer Politics wird eine spezifische Form des politischen Aktivismus verstanden, bei dem eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit gesellschaftlichen Konstruktionsprozessen von Geschlecht und Sexualität, die sozialen Folgen solcher Prozesse und ihre Einbindung in Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse fokussiert werden. Queer Politics wurden insbesondere durch die Befreiungskämpfe der lesbischen und schwulen sowie der feministischen Bewegungen des 20. Jahrhunderts geprägt. Die Queer Theory bildet den wichtigsten theoretischen Hintergrund. Kritik wird vor allem hinsichtlich der Unschärfe des Begriffs queer, als auch queerer Identitätspolitiken formuliert.
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Plötz, Andy. "Queer Politics." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220805.
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Unter Queer Politics wird eine spezifische Form des politischen Aktivismus verstanden, bei dem eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit gesellschaftlichen Konstruktionsprozessen von Geschlecht und Sexualität, die sozialen Folgen solcher Prozesse und ihre Einbindung in Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse fokussiert werden. Queer Politics wurden insbesondere durch die Befreiungskämpfe der lesbischen und schwulen sowie der feministischen Bewegungen des 20. Jahrhunderts geprägt. Die Queer Theory bildet den wichtigsten theoretischen Hintergrund. Kritik wird vor allem hinsichtlich der Unschärfe des Begriffs queer, als auch queerer Identitätspolitiken formuliert.
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Ratanavanich, Heidi. "Queer ecology." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3516.
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Adam, Zoé. "Praxis Queer : les corps queers comme sites de création et de résistance." Thesis, Lille 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LIL3H034/document.
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Praxis queer s'intéresse à l'utilisation de pratiques artistiques au sein du militantisme queer. La réflexion s'organise en trois axes : artistique, militant, et quotidien. L'axe artistique analyse les techniques d'invention de soi, de subversion des normes corporelles, sexuelles et de genre. Les militant-es établissent des jeux entre la performativité et la performance. L'axe militant met en évidence l'utilisation de l'art en tant qu'outil de lutte queer, ce qui questionne les stratégies de lutte et l'efficience politique de l'art. Le troisième axe se concentre sur les pratiques quotidiennes de résistance. Ces pratiques sont analysées à la fois sous l'angle de la micropolitique et de la performance artistique, questionnant les limites de l'art. Certains thèmes transversaux se retrouvent dans ces trois axes : la performance, l'enjeu des archives au sein des luttes queers, l'utilisation militante des nouvelles technologies et la figure du cyborg. De nouveaux enjeux du militantisme queer, comme les affects, l'écologie et l'anticapitalisme, sont abordés. Cette thèse est un geste militant. Elle s'adresse autant au monde universitaire qu'aux activistes et elle correspond à un engagement personnel. Elle se base sur des entretiens réalisés avec des militant-es de France et d'Espagne. Ces entretiens sont utilisés de façon à valoriser les savoirs militants et à les mettre en parallèle du savoir "légitime" que représentent les auteur-es comme Judith Butler, Jack Halberstam, Paul Preciado ou Amélia Jones. Les outils de l'histoire des arts sont utilisés pour analyser des actions militantes. La dimension politique ou militante des oeuvres est systématiquement analyséePraxis queer questions the use of artistic practices in queer activism. The reflection is organized around three lines of thought : artistic, militant, and daily life resistance. The artistic axis analyses the techniques of self-invention and subversion of corporal, sexual and gender norms. Activists establish games between performativity and performance. The militant axis highlights the use of art as a tool of queer activism, which interrogates the strategies of struggle and the political efficiency of art. The third axis focuses on daily life resistance practices. These practices are analysed from both a micropolitical and artistic performance point of view, questioning the limits of art. Some cross-disciplinary themes can be found in these three areas : performance, the issue of archives in queer struggles, the militant use of new technologies and the figure of the cyborg. New issues of queer activism, such as effects, ecology and anticapitalism, are discussed. This thesis is a militant act. It is dedicated to academics as well as activists and is a personal involvement. It is based on interviews with activists from France and Spain. These interviews are analysed in such a way that it enhances militant knowledge and put it in parallel with the "legitimate" knowledge represented by authors such as Judith Butler, Jack Halberstam, Paul Preciado or Amelia Jones. The tools of art history are used to analyse militant actions. The political or militant dimension of works is systematically analysed
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Moussa, Ghaida. "Narrative (sub)Versions: How Queer Palestinian Womyn 'Queer' Palestinian Identity." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20227.
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In asking ‘How do queer Palestinian womyn ‘queer’ Palestinian identity”, the present research focuses on the various forms of traditional, narrative, and creative resistance practices of Palestinian womyn who challenge the following three narratives: 1) the national narrative which tags ‘queer’ as ‘Other’ and which posits the national movement at the top of the hierarchy of struggles; 2) the colonial narrative which is sustained by the Israeli public relations campaigns aiming to portray Israel as a modern, progressive, safe gay haven for queers, in opposition to a Palestine and Arab World which are said to be integrally homophobic, barbaric, regressive, etc. in an attempt to ‘pinkwash’ the occupation; and 3) the neocolonial narrative in which Western and Israeli Jewish queer movements reproduce colonial dynamics in their attempt to ‘save’ Palestinian queers who are deemed to be powerless, voiceless victims in need of saving.
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Peters, Wendy. "Queer identities rupturing identity categories and negotiating meanings of queer /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58889.pdf.
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Lindqvist, Siri. "GIRLFAGS AND GUYDYKES - Too queer for straights, and too straight for queers." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26619.
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Aim. To highlight how girlfags and guydykes describe their identities and their experience and interpretation of the identity labels. Background and previous studies. The sexual minority identity of girlfags and guydykes are sometimes perceived as provocative in their contradictory labels. There is little to no previous research on the identities and what is known is mostly presented on internet blogs and forums. The identities seemingly involve aspects on sexual orientation, gender and sexual practice. Research related to sexual minorities, non-normative sex, LGBT and the risk of ill-health with identifying as a sexual minority is presented. Method. Semi-structured interviews in a method of choice was applied to this study so as to ease contact with a sexual minority group. Participants were sought through a Facebook © forum, with a total of eleven interviews with two guydykes and nine girlfags, through video call (2), phone call (1), in person (1), email (6), email with sound files (1). The data was analysed with content analysis. Results and analysis. The results were extensive and had to be delimited. The results were analysed in a sexual constructionist setting using the concept of the heterosexual matrix (Butler, 1990) and the concepts of gender/sex sexuality and nurturance and eroticism presented in van Anders’ (2015) Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT). Three main categories were presented; A play on gender, Sexuality and Orientation, and Identity. Conclusions. There is pride portrayed in the girlfag and guydykes identities. The identity breaks norms regarding gender and sexuality and even sexual orientation within an LGBT context. The results indicate that further research on transgender issues and relational and social aspects of the identities is needed. Keywords: autoandrophilia, gender identity, genderqueer, girlfag, guydyke, homosexuality, LGBT, non-normative, sexual minorities, lesbian man, queer.
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Wermers, James E., and James E. Wermers. "Shakespeare's Queer Religions." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626356.
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The goal of this dissertation is to explore the construction of the Catholic, the Moor, and the Jew in Shakespeare's early plays as instances of queering—as stagings of religious others as sexually deviant and a threat to normative, English, Protestant reproduction. As numerous critics have remarked, the alien is a conspicuous figure in Elizabethan drama. A number of explanations for this have been offered, the vast majority of which have sought to tie this phenomenon to emerging categories of race and empire (see, for example, Emily Bartels' work on the "alien" in Elizabethan drama, and the work done by both Kim F. Hall and Virginia Mason Vaughan on the role blackness plays on the early modern stage). I want to explore the religious dimension of otherness. In Protestant religious discourse, the error of other religions was characterized as a perversion of desire that had serious implications for physical and ideological reproduction. As Francis Dolan has noted, Catholics were seen as embracing a disordered vision of sexuality in which women are dominant. This fear of political and social inversion is typically associated with the "whore of Babylon" in late 16th and early 17th century rhetoric. As Nabil Matar observes, the Moor was seen to be lascivious, embracing a polymorphous, perverse desire that pollutes culture through sodomy while at the same time threatening miscegenation. Finally, as James Shapiro has noted, the Jew was seen as desiring money above all in a way that entailed a kind of "monstrous" and asexual reproduction through usury. In sum, the discourses of religious otherness were principally concerned with sexual deviance as a threat to reproduction. Shakespeare's construction of characters like Joan La Pucelle, Aaron the Moor, and Shylock is rooted in this protestant understanding of religious otherness as queer. That understanding was increasingly important in a late Elizabethan England that was, as Daniel Swift suggests, rooted in protestant ideology and simultaneously worried about the stability of that identity, given an aging monarch and growing military threats from Catholic and Islamic nations. Our understanding of Shakespeare's religious figures is enhanced by taking into account the queer character of their religious otherness at a time of acute reproductive anxiety.
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Tondeur, Louise. "Reading hair queer." Thesis, University of Reading, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493990.
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Gunn, Maja. "Body Acts Queer." Licentiate thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-123.
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Body Acts Queer is an exploration of the performative and ideological functions of clothes with regard to gender, feminism and queer. It is an artistic, practice-based thesis in the field of fashion and design. The thesis includes three projects: On & Off, If you were a girl I would love you even more and The Club Scene. In these projects I, using text and bodies, work with acts in which clothes have a fundamental role. By exploring bodily experiences of clothes, I investigate the clothes’ performative and ideological functions, with a focus on cultural, social and heteronormative structures. Working with clothing and fashion design from a queer feminist perspective, I transform queer and feminist theory into a creative process. The projects presented in this thesis, together with the discussion, suggest a change in the ways in which bodies act, are perceived and are produced within the fashion field, giving examples of how a queer design practice can be performed. In this thesis, queer design is explored as an inclusive term, containing ideas about clothes and language, the meeting point between fiction and reality and the ability to interpretation and bodily transformations – where desire, bodily experiences and interaction create a change.
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Blanca, Rosa Maria. "Arte a partir de uma perspectiva queer arte desde lo queer." Florianópolis, SC, 2011. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/95243.
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O presente estudo tem como principal objetivo a constituição de arte do erótico como objeto de estudos. Através de conceitos como ambiguidade, fetichismo, manifesto e desafio se problematiza o feminino. Parte-se do suposto de que existe um regime epistemológico visual que trabalha mediante tecnologias do corpo e de visualidade, para a configuração de um código binário. Dessa forma, propõe-se uma metodologia para a pesquisa inter e transdisciplinar de estudos queer, feministas, antropologia visual e arte contemporânea, em cujo processo se faz necessária a realização de genealogias, (en)codificações culturais, e experimentações plástico-conceituais. O eixo condutor da tese são as experiências práticas, artísticas, políticas y teóricas idealizadas e executadas mediante um tipo de insistência pela autora como artista e pesquisadora no decorrer dos estudos de doutorado (PPGICH/UFSC), no Brasil, e, no Estado Espanhol.
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Nielsen, Ida. "Til Ære for queer : Netflix-serien She-Ra og repræsentationen af queer." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43304.
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This paper will examine, how queer is represented in the animated tv-serie She-Ra and the princesses of powerfrom 2018-2020. To understand this work, the paper will define representation, gender and queer, and examine the visual and narrative elements in the tv-serie. Through a visual analysis, the paper can understand if the serie represent queer values. Then the paper will look at some characters from the serie, to see if their visual design and the narrative structure reflects queer characteristics. This means the paper will define what are queer values and how is it shown in the characters of the show. It will be supplied with theory about queer and gender, for examples Raewyn Connell and Stuart Hall. The theory will supply characteristics, which have defined the social norms about genders through history. This paper concludes that the tv-serie reflects queer values through it’s visual and narrative structure. The characters have queer personalities. I need this paper with a discussion of the effects of queer representation and other ways to look at the serie from a perspective of gender.
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Washington, Michael. "Giving an account of the queer subject : plasticity, psychoanalysis, and queer theory." Thesis, Kingston University, 2017. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/41037/.
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The aim of this thesis will be to ask what is the relationship betweeen the concept of plasticity and queer theoretical discourse? Plasticity being, at its most basic level, the idea that difference itself can change form, that it does not just manifest spatially and temporally within acts of inscription, but also within material forms as well. The thesis will attempt to show that what is at work inherently within both discourse (both at the level of logic and objects of analysis) allows for them to speak alongside one another, and even if placed in close enough proximity, to provoke transformations in the other in productive and generative ways. The central claim that will be defended throughout the thesis is that the concept of plasticity has deep and profound implications for queer theory. It will attempt to reveal and explore the ways in which both are committed to thinking change and transformation within a form in ways that implicate the other. The analysis of the relation between the two will be divided into three moments of encounter in which the resonance between both discourses could be seen to be most generative and productive, these staged encounters compromising the three main sections of the thesis: plasticity's relation to the theory performativity, its relation to the anti-social turn within queer thought, and its relation to the affective turn within queer theory. The overall objective will be to demonstrate not only the philosophical underpinnings that animate queer theory, but also the ways in which philosophy itself has been marked and changed by certain interventions of queer thought.
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Arltoft, Emma, and Agnes Benkö. "Camp and Buried : Queer perceptions of queer tropes and stereotypes in games." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17119.
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The state of queer representation in games is poor, and queer consumers are growing increasingly vocal in their demands for nuanced portrayals. This thesis investigates how queer players perceive the tropes and stereotypes commonly used to portray them in games. By sorting through existing representation and using the most common tropes found, this study created two example characters which were represented both narratively and visually. These characters were then the subject of a study of 29 participants. The comments and opinions of these 29 participants were then analysed to find a largely negative consensus which is chiefly concerned with making portrayals less tragic. From this, this study proceeds to analyse the desires of queer consumers and contextualize them in relation to a world which still actively oppresses them.
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Powers, Julie Rae. "Queer in the Holler." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461086849.
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Coffman, Lindsay R. "God Made Me Queer." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587552175667691.
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Spitzner, Marcelo. "De invertido a queer." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/95278.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2011Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-25T23:35:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 295766.pdf: 725784 bytes, checksum: 2268b7c78a64def32d3a464c1c05de4c (MD5)
Este trabalho apresenta uma análise das formas de representação dos sujeitos orientados homoafetivamente e suas performances, investigando a construção de identidades a partir das narrativas de Caio Fernando Abreu na busca de compreender se, de fato, houve uma substancial mudança nas formas de representar a homossexualidade masculina ao longo do século XX e, se, em relação a obras como Bom-crioulo, a literatura contemporânea pode ser considerada mais permissiva ultrapassando os limites da apropriação do tema a simples metáfora de degeneração em discursos moralistas. Através da articulação da Teoria Queer e dos Estudos Feministas e da Análise do Discurso (Foucault), procura-se, ainda, perceber que identidades, espaços e temporalidades são possíveis ao deslocar ou manter a matriz cultural de inteligibilidade que estabelece uma relação mimética sexo-gênero-prática sexual.
This paper presents an analysis of the forms of representation of subjects homoaffectively oriented and their performances, investigating the construction of identities through the narratives of Caio Fernando Abreu with the intention of understanding whether, in fact, there has been (or not) a substantial change in ways of representing male homosexuality throughout the twentieth century and if, in relation to works such as Bom Crioulo, contemporary literature can be considered more permissive beyond the ownership of the boundaries of limited comprehension of the theme to simple metaphor of degeneration into moral discourse. Through the articulation of Queer Theory and Feminist Studies and Discourse Analysis (Foucault), we seek to identify which identities, spaces and temporalities are possible when moving or maintaining the cultural intelligibility that establishes a mimetic relation sex-gender-sexual practice.
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Woodlock, Natalie. "Subculture and Queer Subjectivity." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2531.
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My work explores subculture as a form of cultural resistance to the dominant ideology. I'm concerned with the ambiguous relationship we occupy as subjects to the material produced by popular culture, and how this is digested and understood by female viewers and cultural outsiders. The specific temporality of the queer subject is a key theme in my work.
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Montanari, Laura <1994>. "Queer Poetry in Delhi." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14809.
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Lee, Juwon. "The Globality of the Seoul Queer Culture Festival: Subverting the Neocolonial Queer Narrative." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555520368932493.
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Malmquist, Jennie, and Christoffer Lindberg. "Fear queer eller välkomna nya perspektiv? To Fear Queer or Welcome new Perspectiv?" Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-31865.
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Vi ämnar undersöka hur attityder gentemot queerteorier har förändrats och påverkat några prästers yrkesutövande. Målsättningen är att synliggöra utifall queerteorier på Bibeln används på ett aktivt praktiskt sätt eller enbart på ett akademiskt plan. Vi har använt oss av queerteorier utformade av Judith Butler och Gayle Rubin. Genom en intervjustudie utförda med kvalitativ analys, har vi kommit fram till att queerteorier tycks sträcka sig enbart till den akademiska sfären. I diskussion ställer vi oss frågan: vad queerteoriernas funktion är och varför de inte appliceras i större utsträckning?Nyckelord: Queer, Bibeln, Svenska kyrkan, Heteronormativitet
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Harris, Julia Golda. "Without Closets: A Queer and Feminist Re-Imagining of Narratives of Queer Experience." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1411732805.
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Sparks, Tory Adna. ""This is a Closed Space for Queer Identifying Folx": Queer Spaces on Campus." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1494365911006662.
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Boyd, Nolan H. "Queer Shadows: An Exploration of the Queer Uncanny in the Cinema of Intersection." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595227209602604.
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Bladh, Lucy. "Confissão Queer: : Uma análise queer da Confissão de Lúcio de Mário de Sá-Carneiro." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7848.
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Esta monografia consta de uma pesquisa, cujo objectivo, é averiguar se será possível integrar a obra de Mário de Sá-Carneiro, A confissão de Lúcio, dentro das linhas de pensamento queer. O significado fundamental, mais recentemente atribuído à ideia queer, é o questionamento da naturalidade e obrigatoriedade da heterossexualidade normativa e a contestação do conceito estático e fixo de identidades sexuais. O tema da novela, é a descrição de relações erótico-afectivas, entre dois homens e uma mulher, cujo universo afectivo apresenta uma multiplicidade de desejos eróticos que transgridem a fronteira das normas pelas quais, os relacionamentos heterossexuais se regem. Dentro deste contexto e com base nestas teorias, tenciono através da leitura dos diálogos das personagens analisar o relacionamento entre os sujeitos masculinos e destes com o sujeito feminino. Este triângulo afectivo é questionado, segundo a teoria do triângulo erótico de Sedgwick, que nos orienta no sentido de interpretações talvez controversiais pela sua nova visão. A análise, leva-nos a concluir que uma observação queer feita ao relacionamento das personagens, revela uma relação homo-erótica entre dois homens, dissimulada através do casamento contraído entre um deles e a mulher. O lugar do sujeito feminino quando apresentado pelos sujeitos masculinos, revela-se estereotipado, irreal, e limitado à função de álibi do relacionamento masculino proibido pela heteronormatividade. O sujeito feminino, mesmo não tendo voz própria, apresenta-se como sujeito queer, quando transvestido e internalizado pelos sujeitos masculinos, falando através deles.
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au, J. Horncastle@murdoch edu, and Julia Horncastle. "Queer Being and the Sexual Interstice: A Phenomenological Approach to the Queer Transformative Self." Murdoch University, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20081105.142124.
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This thesis explores a notion of queer being in relation to a difficult yet creative articulation of queer self-consciousness. The difficulty of attempting to particularise self-consciousness is challenged and dismantled by proposing ways in which putatively exclusive esoteric knowledges of being can be exposed and expanded. This is achieved by justifying singular (queer) experience as it coincides with the disparities between subjectivity and objectivity, experience and existence. I argue that two key perspectives (those of interstitiality and self-transformativity) provide a basis whereby we can force a radical articulation of queer being-ness into general and contemporary philosophical discourses of being. In doing so, a particularised theory of intersubjective being emerges as a way to identify the complicity of ethics and ontology.
Queerness in this thesis is especially articulated as an eccentricity or poetics of being, experienced at the juncture of diverse knowledge spaces. These include not only the threshold and radical spaces of sexuality and gender, but also the perceived limits of theories of being which allow us to formulate understandings of self-consciousness. This is evidenced through a critical analysis of feminist, queer, transgender, phenomenological and existential texts and/or practices, paying special regard to everyday, real-life experience. By using a combination of the logic of the interstice, genealogical methods, hermeneutical analysis and a deconstructionist theoretical approach, the thesis seeks out, and insists upon, ways to articulate and determine the possibility of a queer sensibility as both a practice of self-transformativity and a more broadly applicable knowledge heuristic.
The thesis demonstrates that by increasing an awareness of a particular kind of self-transformative queer being-ness one that embraces a critical ethics of being the rich insights of queer experiences and knowledges can act as a valuable resource for reviewing the horizons of the ontology of the subject. It also suggests that particularising the term queer in relation to a complex theory of sensibility provides new depths for understanding, and practical ways to make use of, a queer theory of being.
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Persson, Erica. "Queer i fokus : En analys av queer ungdomslitteratur via Rainbow Rowells fantasyroman Carry On." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-60451.
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Athelstan-Price, Alexandra. "Queer feminine disidentificatory orientations : occupying liminal spaces of queer fem(me)inine (un)belonging." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8659/.
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This thesis develops fresh critical insights regarding dynamics of queer feminine identity construction and community (un)belonging, with a specific focus on the rhetorics and realities of inclusion and exclusion occurring within queer feminine identities, communities and representations. The project takes a intersectional approach to exploring these dynamics by interrogating how various positionalities (e.g. “race”, disability, class etc.) interact with queer feminine genders and sexualities. Synthesising insights from Sara Ahmed’s (2006) queer phenomenology regarding processes of orientation with José Esteban Muñoz’s (1999) theory of disidentifications, the project explores the possibilities that experiences and articulations of queer feminine disidentificatory orientations offer for a critical take on queer femininities from within. The key research question that this project addresses is: How and why are disidentificatory orientations experienced by various differently positioned queer feminine subjects and what can queer feminine disidentificatory orientations tell us about dynamics of inclusion, exclusion and (un)belonging within queer feminine subjectivities, communities and representations? The project developed a collaborative queer fem(me)inist ethnographic approach that combined questionnaires, interviews and visual materials (collages and photographs) produced by a diverse sample of 15 queer feminine participants in the UK, with insights gained from a discursive analysis of three major contemporary femme anthologies: Chloë Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri’s (2002) Brazen Femme, Ulrika Dahl and Del LaGrace Volcano’s (2008) Femmes of Power and Jennifer Clare Burke’s (2009) Visible. The project presents a significant new data set which demonstrates the complexities, politics and cultures of femme subjectivities and the ranges of (sub)cultural capitals that one has to either already be invested in, or actively invest in, to access queer feminine identities, recognition and community belonging. Thus, the project argues for the continued necessity of engaging in positioned reflexive work on the lived experiences of minority subjects within our own queer, feminist and femme communities.
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Horncastle, Julia. "Queer being and the sexual interstice: A phenomenological approach to the queer transformative self." Thesis, Horncastle, Julia (2008) Queer being and the sexual interstice: A phenomenological approach to the queer transformative self. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2008. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/675/.
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This thesis explores a notion of “queer being” in relation to a difficult yet creative articulation of queer self-consciousness. The difficulty of attempting to “particularise” self-consciousness is challenged and dismantled by proposing ways in which putatively exclusive esoteric knowledges of being can be exposed and expanded. This is achieved by justifying singular (queer) experience as it coincides with the disparities between subjectivity and objectivity, experience and existence. I argue that two key perspectives (those of interstitiality and self-transformativity) provide a basis whereby we can “force” a radical articulation of queer being-ness into general and contemporary philosophical discourses of being. In doing so, a particularised theory of intersubjective being emerges as a way to identify the complicity of ethics and ontology.
“Queerness” in this thesis is especially articulated as an eccentricity or poetics of being, experienced at the juncture of diverse knowledge spaces. These include not only the threshold and radical spaces of sexuality and gender, but also the perceived limits of theories of being which allow us to formulate understandings of self-consciousness. This is evidenced through a critical analysis of feminist, queer, transgender, phenomenological and existential texts and/or practices, paying special regard to “everyday, real-life” experience. By using a combination of the “logic of the interstice”, genealogical methods, hermeneutical analysis and a deconstructionist theoretical approach, the thesis seeks out, and insists upon, ways to articulate and determine the possibility of a queer sensibility as both a practice of self-transformativity and a more broadly applicable knowledge heuristic.
The thesis demonstrates that by increasing an awareness of a particular kind of self-transformative queer being-ness – one that embraces a critical ethics of being – the rich insights of queer experiences and knowledges can act as a valuable resource for reviewing the horizons of the ontology of the subject. It also suggests that particularising the term “queer” in relation to a complex theory of “sensibility” provides new depths for understanding, and practical ways to make use of, a queer theory of being.
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Horncastle, Julia. "Queer being and the sexual interstice : a phenomenological approach to the queer transformative self /." Horncastle, Julia (2008) Queer being and the sexual interstice: A phenomenological approach to the queer transformative self. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2008. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/675/.
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This thesis explores a notion of “queer being” in relation to a difficult yet creative articulation of queer self-consciousness. The difficulty of attempting to “particularise” self-consciousness is challenged and dismantled by proposing ways in which putatively exclusive esoteric knowledges of being can be exposed and expanded. This is achieved by justifying singular (queer) experience as it coincides with the disparities between subjectivity and objectivity, experience and existence. I argue that two key perspectives (those of interstitiality and self-transformativity) provide a basis whereby we can “force” a radical articulation of queer being-ness into general and contemporary philosophical discourses of being. In doing so, a particularised theory of intersubjective being emerges as a way to identify the complicity of ethics and ontology.
“Queerness” in this thesis is especially articulated as an eccentricity or poetics of being, experienced at the juncture of diverse knowledge spaces. These include not only the threshold and radical spaces of sexuality and gender, but also the perceived limits of theories of being which allow us to formulate understandings of self-consciousness. This is evidenced through a critical analysis of feminist, queer, transgender, phenomenological and existential texts and/or practices, paying special regard to “everyday, real-life” experience. By using a combination of the “logic of the interstice”, genealogical methods, hermeneutical analysis and a deconstructionist theoretical approach, the thesis seeks out, and insists upon, ways to articulate and determine the possibility of a queer sensibility as both a practice of self-transformativity and a more broadly applicable knowledge heuristic.
The thesis demonstrates that by increasing an awareness of a particular kind of self-transformative queer being-ness – one that embraces a critical ethics of being – the rich insights of queer experiences and knowledges can act as a valuable resource for reviewing the horizons of the ontology of the subject. It also suggests that particularising the term “queer” in relation to a complex theory of “sensibility” provides new depths for understanding, and practical ways to make use of, a queer theory of being.
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Ball, Jack. "Collage as Queer Methodology: The Pleasures and Politics of Trans and Queer Photographic Representations." Thesis, Curtin University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/83186.
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This practice-led research project is a critical feminist engagement with the messy complexities of making, consuming and exhibiting imagery. I use a range of material processes to develop large-scale photographic series that explore intimacy and a continued reconfiguring of the body. I consider the ethical intricacies of photographic practice and interrogate how a feminist and queer politics of ruining and remaking can inform an approach to my own practice and participation in image culture.
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Avramsson, Kristof. "Men Knitting: A Queer Pedagogy." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34500.
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This study investigates ‘how men knitting functions as a queer pedagogy’. In the doing it recognizes that a man knitting elbows his way into long-held contrived conventions of (domestic) femininity, queering space and generally causing embarrassment and a sense of cultural unease through his performance.
As a work of educational research (situated within a Society, Culture, and Literacies profile) it is intent on troubling lingering gender-based notions of in/appropriate educational research and what remains academically out-of-bounds: knitting as domestic diversion has largely been neglected by scholars with the few academic sources focusing almost exclusively (and unapologetically) on female knitters. As such, the pedagogical meaning(s) of men knitting are essentially absent from the educational literature. This research project seeks to address that gap.
Taking the form of three journal articles, this work reads the everyday performance of men knitting as queer pedagogy, learning which ‘minces’ and troubles not only masculinity but traditional constructions of educational discourse limiting pedagogy to classrooms and accredited educators. Using personal narrative and a methodology which brings together document analysis and queer theory, this study interrogates photographic and other artifacts through a queer lens, destabilizing meaning(s) and problematizing gender. It recognizes that leisure activities like knitting, as with other human activities, are by-products of the culture where they’re re/produced and a reflection of broader societal boundaries. ‘Men knitting as a queer pedagogy,’ is about gendered desires, anxieties, and places where critical dissatisfactions with culture gets performed in other/ed ways.
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Norman, Taryn Louise. "Queer Performativity and Chaucer's Pardoner." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/NormanTL2006.pdf.
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Epstein, Rebecca. "Bartleby the Original the Queer." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/6.
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Insofar as human beings try to “know” we must define concepts, objects, actions. We label, we distinguish between one concept and another, and in doing this, we make categories. Labels are categories. Our categories are imperfect. Our labels are always relative, defined by and dependent on that which they exclude. The boundaries of our terms, what “counts” as something or what is considered to be within a certain term, are always shifting. Our definitions change based on our method of analysis. For instance, the definition of “human” is different in different disciplines, like science, philosophy, sociology, economics, etc. Given their instability, categories can only be rough approximations of what we mean, and not always very good ones at that. To our detriment, we sometimes forget that they are approximations, and already laden with meaning of their own. Michel Foucault and other thinkers have pointed out that some of our ways of knowing, for example, the scientific method, have become synonymous with truth, objectivity or neutrality. When this happens, we cease to question those ways of knowing, and the questions within those ways of knowing. We forget that the kinds of questions we ask determine the kinds of answers we find. Then, when something that does not prove easily “knowable” or categorizable troubles our ways of knowing, we call it trouble. Instead of remembering that our methods are imperfect, we think that the thing we want to know about is flawed, wrong or bad. This thesis is a reclamation of the flawed, the failed, the queer, a revaluation of it as something positive and productive. It is a reminder to be critical of our categories, and to rule them rather than be ruled by them. Categories are tools, not truth.
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AZEVEDO, ADRIANA PINTO FERNANDES DE. "QUEER RECONSTRUCTIONS: THINKING UTOPIC HOMES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27938@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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A presente tese tem como objetivo traçar uma paisagem constelar de vivências queers (minorias sexuais, de gênero, étnico-raciais, etc) que afirmam suas vidas através da reconfiguração das ideias de lar e casa. Para isso, foram utilizados diversos objetos-acontecimentos (filmes, livros, materiais arquivísticos) que nos ajudassem a produzir fendas ou fissuras afirmativas no pensamento sobre o poder através das suas potências de vida, fazendo eco ao que propõe Beatriz Preciado em seu ensaio Multidões Queer: notas para uma política dos anormais (2011). Alguns deles são: o livro Stella Manhattan (1995), de Silviano Santiago; os home movies do cineasta Derek Jarman; materiais pessoais de Alice B. Toklas e Gertrude Stein arquivados no Harry Ramson Center, da Universidade do Texas em Austin; a peça de teatro Domínio do Escuro (2015) de Juliana Pamplona; o filme The Watermelon Woman (1996), de Cheryl Dunye e o filme Shortbus (2006), de John Cameron Mitchell. Trata-se de uma organização de tese que faz parte de uma corporeidade que não é histórica no sentido normativo da palavra, mas tecida como um gesto que se aproxima daquele presente no Atlas de Aby Warburg, no esforço de fazer entender o link, um nexo, uma conexão secreta entre diferentes imagens que se afirmam enquanto resistências às normas de gênero e sexualidade, e aos modos de estar junto normatizados na modernidade e na História.
The goal for this thesis is to draw a constellation of queer livings (sexual, gender, ethnic, racial and other minorities) that reassures their lives through the reconfiguration of the ideas of home and house. In order to accomplish that, several happening-objects were used (films, books, archive material) to help us produce affirmative slits or clefts when thinking about power through its life potency, echoing what Beatriz Preciado suggests in her essay Multitudes queer. Notes for a politics of abnormality (2011). Some of them are: the book Stella Manhattan (1995), by Silviano Santiago; movie maker Derek Jarman s home movies; personal material from Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein archived at Harry Ramson Center, at the University of Texas in Austin; the play Domínio do Escuro (2015) by Juliana Pamplona; the movie The Watermelon Woman (1996), by Cheryl Dunye and the movie Shortbus (2006), by John Cameron Mitchell. It is a thesis organized in a non-historical corporeity in the normative sense of the word, but woven as a gesture close to the one present in Aby Warburg s Atlas, in an effort to understand the hidden connection between different images that arise as resistence to the norms of gender and sexuality, and to the normatized forms of being together in modernity and in History.
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Munro, Niall. "Hart Crane's queer modernist aesthetic." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579166.
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'Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic' contends that to properly examine Crane's work, queerness and modernism, which are frequently thought to be contrary sites, must be considered together. The areas of experience which modernist writers sought to destabilise, such as the visual world, space, time, and the material world, were also destabilised by Crane's queerness. The radical energy of Crane's work is derived therefore from this dual aesthetic, and also from the conflicts that Crane generated within it, whether in terms of modernism (his adversarial approach to T.S. Eliot, or his continuing allegiance to Decadence and Walter Pater), or in queer terms, as Crane resisted the dominant heteronormative modernism by employing a queer negativity which asserted his own sexual identity against heteronormative futurity. Whilst acknowledging his reputation as a 'difficult' or 'obscure' poet, the thesis argues that a key component of Crane's queer aesthetic is his attempt to produce a relational poetics, as he seeks to make a connection with his reader. Chapter One, 'Visuality, American Decadence, and the Evolution of Crane's Style', examines the influence upon Crane of two queer antecedents, Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater. Chapter Two, 'Spatiality, Movement, and the Logic of Metaphor', employs the philosophical work of Henri Lefebvre, Gaston Bachelard, and Michel de Certeau to show how Crane uses various forms of spatial practice and production to challenge heteronormativity. Chapter Three, 'Temporality, Futurity, and Self- Consciousness', pays particular attention to the 'Voyages' sequence and The Bridge in order to discuss ways in which Crane's poetry challenges normative, linear time, especially futurity. Finally, Chapter Four, 'Materiality, Experience, and Knowledge', explores Crane's queer theories of knowledge and experience, which are frequently represented in his prose and poetry as a relationship between materiality and immateriality. In analysing Crane's work the thesis draws upon a range of unpublished archival material, examines in detail Crane's visual influences for the first time, and offers a genetic reading of one particular sequence of poems. In its consideration of the various dimensions of Crane's aesthetic, the thesis seeks to provide a thorough examination of Crane's experience as it is presented in his poetry from his earliest juvenilia in the 1910s through to his final published poem in 1932.
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Souza, Mauricio Marques de. "Corpos queer: canteiro de obras." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19321.
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This work is cast in the investigation of local discursive records produced by queer groups in Brazil, Argentina and the United States. Nevertheless, not limited to the analysis of graphic materials and productions of sexual dissidents, there are also jointly work being carried out in the researcher's body through the inventive production of a new way to experience their sexuality and their gender from two main axes: the trials being threshold life and art held in Rio de Janeiro together with the artist Anais-karenin, who re-dimensioned possible corporeality and gave birth to a new non-binary expression of sex / gender; and written works by combining the production of a field diary of my experiments with MTF process and a poetic production, culminating in the booklet entitled "Site" which is not only a fragment spread in this work, but the actual research work. Above all, my body is a fanzine (a collage, a mix of heterogeneous references): a body-zine
Essa dissertação se lança na investigação dos registros discursivos locais produzidos por grupos queer no Brasil, na Argentina e nos Estados Unidos. A despeito disso, não se restringindo à análise de materiais e produções gráficas de dissidentes sexuais, há também, em conjunto, um trabalho sendo realizado no próprio corpo do pesquisador por meio da produção inventiva de uma nova maneira de experimentar sua sexualidade e seu gênero a partir de dois eixos principais: experimentações no limiar ente arte e vida realizadas no Rio de Janeiro em conjunto com a artista Anais-karenin, que redimensionaram corporalidades possíveis e fizeram nascer uma nova expressão não-binária de sexo/gênero; e os trabalhos de escrita, combinando a produção de um diário de campo de minhas experimentações com a hormonização “feminilizante” e com os usos das camadas de tecidos, proposição de Anais-karenin, a uma produção poética, culminantes no livreto intitulado “Canteiro”, que não só é um fragmento espalhado nesse trabalho, mas o próprio trabalho de pesquisa, de forma que estudar fanzines sem produzi-los seria confirmar lógicas de pesquisa distanciadas que para mim não interessam. Sobretudo, meu corpo é um fanzine (uma colagem, uma mescla de referências heterogêneas); evidencio um corpo-zine
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Molinaro, Matthew P. "Queer Time, Epistemology, and Psychology." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303413630.
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Carr, Jamie Marie. "Queer times : Christopher Isherwood's modernity /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2004. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/dlnow/3145424.
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Cummings, Ronald Bancroft. "Queer marronage and Caribbean writing." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3385/.
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This thesis focuses on the writings of Michelle Cliff, Dionne Brand, Patricia Powell and Shani Mootoo and their representations of queer marronage. In the texts discussed, I examine how these writers draw on the trope of marronage to call attention to ongoing neo-colonial, power structures, sexual hegemonies and the various strategies of social negation which curtail and regulate queer Caribbean lives. In my readings of these texts, I pay particular attention to their narration of queer experience in relation to the time of prohibition, crisis and social death which gave rise to New World Maroon communities in the context of slavery. In bringing these two moments into conversation, these texts not only map the operations of parallel and persisting structures of power, they also narrate and acknowledge shared responses across time. In doing so they open up a critical space into which this work intervenes. This thesis seeks to outline the shared practices of resistance by queers and maroons, their strategies of community, their conditions and politics of belonging and their practices of survival.
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Brunel, Francois-Marie. "Psychanalyse, homosexualités et théories queer." Thesis, Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080046/document.
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Cette thèse a pour objet de confronter la psychanalyse, et particulièrement celle de Jacques Lacan, aux théories queer étatsuniennes. Il s'avère que les théoriciens queer ont un rapport ambivalent à la psychanalyse. Chez nombre d'auteurs, la psychanalyse s'avère une ressource essentielle pour déconstruire le genre, penser les homosexualités, le transgenderisme et les pratiques sexuelles. Pour cela, ils s'éloignent de la psychanalyse américaine (egopsychology) pour retrouver certains aspects subversifs de l'œuvre freudienne. D'un autre côté, certains aspects particulièrement novateurs de la lecture lacanienne de Freud sont ignorés. C'est le cas en particulier de la théorisation par Lacan des sexuations masculines et féminines. Les théoriciens queer se rangent sans le savoir du côté masculin de la sexuation, ignorant la spécificité de la jouissance féminine. Il s'avère que la lecture de la psychanalyse par nombre de théoriciens queer a une dimension utopique forte, visant à une refonte politique de la société. C'est plus généralement la dimension du réel au sens lacanien qui est méconnue et ignorée, et par là la façon singulière dont la sexualité affecte le corps d'un sujetThis thesis aims to confront psychoanalysis and U.S queer theories. Queer theorists are ambivalent towards psychoanalysis. For many authors, psychoanalysis is very useful to deconstruct gender, think about homosexualities, transgenderism and various sexual practices. They criticize egopsychology and uncover Freud’s work subversive aspects. Besides, some Lacanian aspects of the reading of Freud which are particularly innovative are unknown, such as Lacan’s theorization of masculine and feminine sexuations. Queer theorists are siding with masculine sexuation, ignoring feminine jouissance. It is obvious that queer theorists' reading has a strong utopian dimension, aiming for a political revolution of the society. More generally, it is the dimension of the real in the Lacanian sense which is unknown and ignored, and, because of that, the singular way in which the subject's body is affected by sexuality
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Burns, Kellie Jean, and n/a. "Blood, sweat and queers : (re)imagining global queer citizenship at the Sydney 2002 Gay Games." University of Otago. School of Physical Education, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080514.131842.
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This thesis takes the Sydney 2002 Gay Games: Under New Skies �02, as a case study into the production of global queer citizenship. In the existing body of work around the Gay Games they are analysed as an international gay and lesbian sporting event (Cramer, 1996; Krane et al., 2001; Pronger, 2000; Waitt, 2005), as a gay and lesbian community event (Krane & Waldron, 2000; Symons, 2002, 2004; Waitt, 2003, 2006), and as a cultural site where discourses of nationality, sport and sexuality converge (Miller, 2001; Probyn, 2000; Rowe et al., 2006; Stevenson et al., 2005; Waitt, 2005; Waitt & Markwell, 2006). This thesis builds on these investigations, asking specific questions about the ways in which discourses of sexuality and citizenship are produced and governed within and across the Sydney 2002 Gay Games promotional and media materials. The analysis is guided by Michel Foucault�s notion of governmentality (1991) and the works of related theorists who map the disparate array of neoliberal mechanisms of government that �conduct the conduct� and �act on the actions� of individuals and certain populations (Bratich et al., 2003; Gordon, 1991; Larner, 2000; Larner & Walters, 2002, 2004; Miller, 1993; Rabinow & Rose, 2003; Rose, 1996a, 1999). The analysis begins by asking how discourses of the autonomous, neo-liberal subject converge with discourses of �global living� such that individuals are invited to imagine themselves as increasingly flexible, freedom-loving (Rose, 1999), self-assured, cosmopolitan global citizens. The idea of the global imagination is then used to explore the ways in which the Gay Games commitment to �total inclusion� and its promise of personal and community transformation rely on similar neo-liberal renderings of tbe subject. It argues that the event�s �political� promises not only normalise certain forms of identity-based consumption (Chasin, 2000), they also (re)produce and normalise a very entrepreneurial, western-centric, cosmopolitan �brand� of global queer citizenship. The thesis also emphasises the important role that images and image-related technologies played in upholding normative meanings around queer sexuality and queer citizenship at the Games. In doing so, the thesis argues that images and technologies do more than simply represent individuals� lived experiences. Images, it argues, are (inter)active entities that produce and shape individuals� understanding of the �real� and how they come to know themselves as certain types of subjects. Where the Sydney 2002 Gay Games were concerned, images were integral in producing normative meanings around gender, sexuality and citizenship and in governing participants� experiences as �locals�, �global visitors�, �athletes�, �cultural participants� and consumers.