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Journal articles on the topic "Sexual orientation – fiction"

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Naiman, Eric. "Hermophobia (On Sexual Orientation and Reading Nabokov)." Representations 101, no. 1 (2008): 116–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2008.101.1.116.

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Vladimir Nabokov's novels provoke a unique anxiety of interpretation that fuses hermeneutic and sexual anxieties. The article explores the simultaneous desire to interpret and the fear and shame of interpretation that Nabokov's fiction works to produce. This double bind leads to a condition of interpretive panic that takes other critics as objects of aggression and transposes to a metafictive plane the dynamics of reaction more commonly associated with anxious responses to homoerotic attraction.
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McInally, Kate. "Camphor Laurel: A Re-vision of Desire." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 13, no. 2 (July 1, 2003): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2003vol13no2art1289.

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Sarah Walker's 'Camphor Laurel' demonstrates that the text is one of a few Young Adult fictions which destabilise cultural assumptions concerning a normative heterosexuality, as it engages with male-centred discourses that have attempted to reconcile feminine desire with sexual orientation and categorisation. The novel's representation of same-sex desire by young female characters moves beyond the models of maturational development and identity politics, which inform most mainstream fiction.
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Nikolajeva, Maria. "Recent Trends in Children's Literature Research: Return to the Body." International Research in Children's Literature 9, no. 2 (December 2016): 132–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2016.0198.

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Twenty-first-century children's literature research has witnessed a material turn in strong response to the 1990s perception of childhood and the fictional child as social constructions. Cultural theories have generated fruitful approaches to children's fiction through the lenses of gender, class, race and sexual orientation, and psychoanalytically oriented theories have explored ways of representing childhood as a projection of (adult) interiority, but the physical existence of children as represented in their fictional worlds has been obscured by constructed social and psychological hierarchies. Recent directions in literary studies, such as ecocriticism, posthumanism, disability studies and cognitive criticism, are refocusing scholarly attention on the physicality of children's bodies and the environment. This trend does not signal a return to essentialism but reflects the complexity, plurality and ambiguity of our understanding of childhood and its representation in fiction for young audiences. This article examines some current trends in international children's literature research with a particular focus on materiality.
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Armengol, Josep. "Sex and Text: Queering Older Men’s Sexuality in Contemporary U.S. Fiction." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 826. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3018.

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Abstract This paper will explore the representation of men’s aging experiences in contemporary U.S. fiction. While most gender-ed approaches to aging have focused on women, which has contributed to the cultural invisibility of older men, this study focuses on men’s aging experiences as men, thus challenging the inverse correlation between masculinity and aging. To do so, the study draws on a selected number of contemporary U.S. male-authored fictional works, which question the widely-held assumption that aging is a lesser concern for men, or that men and women’s aging experiences may be simply defined as opposed. The literary corpus includes male authors from different backgrounds so as to illustrate how (self-)representations of aging men vary according not only to gender but also class (Richard Ford), race (Ernest Gaines), and sexual orientation (Edmund White), amongst other factors. The presentation will thus end up challenging the conventional equation of men’s aging processes with (sexual) decline, exemplifying their plurality as well as irreducible contradictions.
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Hellwig, Tineke. "Abidah El Khalieqy’s novels: Challenging patriarchal Islam." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 167, no. 1 (2011): 16–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003600.

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Since the 1990s Islam in Indonesia has shifted in orientation and gradually shed its depoliticized position. After the fall of the New Order in 1998 many female authors came to the fore and voiced their opinions about societal expectations, gender roles and norms that regulate female sexuality. Muslim women have addressed in their fiction issues regarding Islam, modernity and how to balance Islamic teachings with globalized forces that have changed Indonesian ways of living. This article analyzes three novels by Muslim author Abidah El Khalieqy in which the protagonists search for ways to shape new female identities and forms of selfhood that are in accordance with Islam and also suit the modernized world. The novels speak openly and in great detail about sexual relations. They critique polygyny and patriarchal attitudes that treat women as sexual objects and inferior beings, and disrupt taboos such as domestic violence and (marital) rape while endorsing women’s activism to advocate gender equity and social justice. They also demonstrate how women find pleasure in sexual intimacy. Abidah's fiction does not shy away from topics such as homosexuality and pre-marital sex but eventually hetero-normativity prevails. In significant ways Abidah's fiction contributes to debates on women's rights and gender expectations within Indonesia's Muslim community.
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Persson, Asha, Christy E. Newman, Pene Manolas, Martin Holt, Denton Callander, Tina Gordon, and John de Wit. "Challenging Perceptions of “Straight”: Heterosexual Men Who Have Sex with Men and the Cultural Politics of Sexual Identity Categories." Men and Masculinities 22, no. 4 (July 17, 2017): 694–715. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x17718586.

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Research shows that some heterosexually identified men engage in sex with men; however, they remain largely hidden and little understood. Despite long-standing scholarly recognition that sexual identity and orientation do not always neatly coincide, the culturally normative heterosexual/homosexual binary tends to shape mainstream perceptions of such men as well as render them invisible in sexual health systems reliant on stable sexual identity categories. This invisibility, in turn, perpetuates the fiction of the binary. We explore perspectives on heterosexually identified men who have sex with men, drawing on recent research literature and on qualitative interviews with “key informants” in the Australian sexual health field who have frontline knowledge of these men. We consider the limitations of inventing a label to “encapsulate” these diverse men but also the significance of finding a language that meaningfully acknowledges their sexual realities and highlights heterosexuality as more varied and fluid than social attitudes and traditional sexual identity categories permit.
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D’Haenens, Leen, and Willem Joris. "Introduction to Communicating on/with Minorities." Media and Communication 7, no. 1 (February 5, 2019): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i1.1985.

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This editorial delivers an introduction to the <em>Media and Communication </em>thematic issue on “Communicating on/with Minorities” around the world. This thematic issue presents a multidisciplinary look at the field of communicating on and with different members of minority groups who, based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or a background in migration, experience relative disadvantage and marginalization compared to the dominant social group. The contributors to this thematic issue present a variety of professional contexts (i.e., portrayals in journalistic content, in fiction and non-fiction audiovisual content, on social media platforms and in health care). Taken together, the contributions examine various theoretical angles, thereby adopting new research directions through the use of quantitative, qualitative or mixed methodologies.
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Kokkola, Lydia. "Directions of Desire: Reading the Adolescent Body." International Research in Children's Literature 16, no. 1 (February 2023): 16–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2023.0485.

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In Queer Phenomenology, Sara Ahmed discusses the spatial dimensions of orientation, asking not only ‘What does it mean to be oriented?’ but also ‘What does it mean for sexuality to be lived as oriented? What difference does it make what or who we are oriented toward in the very direction of our desire?’ (1). This article uses Ahmed's idea of sexual orientation as a form of way-finding to consider how masturbation might be considered a form of orientation that is particularly relevant for teenagers learning to understand their pubescent bodies and their desires. The concept is developed through an analysis of how Emilia – the teenage protagonist of the Finnish novel Huhtikuun Puutarha [April garden] by Leena Leskinen – uses her desire to find her way. The novel contains several erotic descriptions of sexual acts, designed to titillate the readers of the novel. Drawing on research within the field of embodied cognition, the article concludes with an examination of how the written word stimulates the body. The aim is to see how onanistic reading is promoted in Finnish YA fiction and to suggest that erotica for teens has many benefits.
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Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred. "Language, fiction, and heteropatriarchal critique in selected recent Ugandan short fiction." Sociolinguistic Studies 17, no. 1-3 (August 7, 2023): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.23998.

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There is an emerging Ugandan queer writing tradition that adopts an activist stance to imagine an alternative Ugandan queer subjecthood beyond popular and polarising perspectives of this subjectivity that were instantiated by the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014. This emerging archive of Ugandan writing, often deploying the short fiction genre, weaves intricate tales of queer Uganda that sidestep the censorship of an ostracised sexuality deemed sinful, dangerous, and unUgandan to claim the agency and humanity of Ugandan homosexuals. While this archive of Ugandan queer short fiction has attracted significant critical attention from scholars such as Edgar Fred Nabutanyi (2017, 2018), Ken Junior Lipenga (2014) and Ben de Souza (2020), who focus on the political activism of these texts in Ugandan sexuality debates, little critical attention has been paid to how writers deploy sociolinguistic tools to empower their characters to author their agency and life experiences as same-sex loving Ugandans. Using sociolinguistic discursive tools, I refer to a textuality that includes illocutionary techniques such as letter writing, dialogue, and stream of consciousness that subversively empower excluded and muted subjects to articulate their essence and humanity. Deploying textual analysis of selected short stories, their analyses, and Ugandan queer theoretical treatises, I read Monica Arac de Nyeko’s ‘Jambula tree’ (2006) Beatrice Lamwaka’s ‘Pillar of love’ (2016) and Anthea Paleo’s ‘Picture frame’ (2013) using a sociolinguistic lens to unveil how the selected writers’ subversion of patriarchal tropes of an amorous letter, an ideal heterosexual family, and a romantic date critique the ostracisation of a sexual orientation.
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Alfiatin Niamah and Anita Rahmah Dewi. "Masculinity In Spark’s The Best Me And Yanagihara’s A Little Life : A Study Of Comparative Literature." JELP: Journal of English Language and Pedagogy 2, no. 1 (January 31, 2023): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.58518/jelp.v2i1.1466.

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This study aims to explain the differences and similarities of masculinity depicted in the 17th American novel The Best of Me (2011) by Nicholas Sparks which is ranked 2 of the top 10 lists in weekly publishers, with romance and fiction genres, with Novel A Little Life (2015) the work of the United States novelist Hanya Yanagihara who won both the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the Goodreads choice awards for the best fiction category and the national book award for fiction. Using the fiction genre, this research is comparative literature. It uses gender theory with masculine concepts from John Beynon (2002) which is written in his book entitled Masculinities and Culture. This study uses a context-oriented approach,Data Collection Techniques using literature study by reading, taking notes, and documenting data. After the data is collected, data reduction is carried out. The data that has been selected will be classified to take action to analyze the differences and similarities of masculinity in the male main character Dawson Cole in the Novel The Best of Me with Jude in the Novel A Little Life. The author finds some differences in reading aspects of masculinity according to John Beynon in the two characters. The difference lies in aspects: Age & Physical, Education, Sexual Orientation, Class & Occupation, Status & Lifestyle. The author finds similarities in reading aspects of masculinity according to John Beynon in Dawson and Jude in the Historical Location aspect. Both of them have pasts that they dont not want to open up.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sexual orientation – fiction"

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Sheehan, Dinah Belle. "Central Stories." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1215.

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Central Stories is a series of interconnected stories about students at a fictional high school. Each story focuses on a pair or small group of students who are grappling with issues of gender identity, sexual orientation, and changing friendships. These stories explore varying aspects of the coming out processes, as well as attendant character-developments related to adolescence.
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Brinkley, Marlan E. "The hero's journey in the formation of the homosexual identity in gay teen fiction." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/89.

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"A Master's paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science."
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 25, 2006). "May 2004." Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-47).
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Floerke, Jennifer Jodelle. "A queer look at feminist science fiction: Examing Sally Miller Gearhart's The Kanshou." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2889.

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This thesis is a queer theory analysis of the feminist science fiction novel The Kanshou by Sally Miller Gearhart. After exploring both male and female authored science fiction in the literature review, two themes were to be dominant. The goal of this thesis is to answer the questions, can the traditional themes that are prevalent in male authored science fiction and feminist science fiction in representing gender and sexual orientation dichotomies be found in The Kanshou? And does Gearhart challenge these dichotomies by destabilizing them? The analysis found determined that Gearhart's The Kanshou does challenge traditional sociological norms of binary gender identities and sexual orientation the majority of the time.
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Books on the topic "Sexual orientation – fiction"

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Care, Charlie. The clinic. North Charleston, South Carolina]: [CreateSpace], 2015.

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LeVay, Simon. Albrick's gold. New York: Masquerade Books, 1997.

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Mitchison, Naomi. Solution three. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995.

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Closer to fine. New York: Kensington Books, 2008.

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James, Baldwin. Komnata Dzhovanni: Roman. Moskva: Terra--Knizhnyĭ klub, 2004.

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Dementiuk, Mykola. Times queer. Flemington, NJ: Synergy Press, 2006.

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Forrest, Katherine V. Ai o shirutoki. Tōkyō: Daiei Shuppan, 1994.

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Bogeywoman. New York: Vintage Books, 2011.

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Mitchison, Naomi. Solution three. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995.

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Lovers and beloveds: Sexual otherness in southern fiction, 1936-1961. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

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Wennerscheid, Sophie. "“Away from Here to Tjottahejti”: Spatial and Sexual (Re-)Orientation in Places of Secondariness in Contemporary Swedish Fiction." In Literary Second Cities, 195–216. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62719-9_10.

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Wieringa, Edwin. "Can Kartini Be Lesbian? Identity, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in a Post-Suharto Pop Novel." In Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia, 169–87. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5659-3_9.

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AbstractThe British author Martin Amis once remarked that “the way a writer names his characters provides a good index to the way he sees the world—to his reality-level, his responsiveness to the accidental humour and freakish poetry of life” (Amis Amis, The moronic inferno and other visits to America, Penguin, London, 1987, p. 13). If this is so, what, then, does the choice of the name Kartini for the protagonist in the 2007 pop novel Kembang Kertas (Paper Flowers) by the Indonesian woman writer Eni Martini with the provocative subtitle Ijinkan aku menjadi lesbian (Allow me to be lesbian) tell us about the way she appropriates the iconic feministfigure of Kartini who lived from 1879 to 1904? This essay explores how the Kartini image as a model of the ideal Indonesian woman is creatively refigured in this 21st-century expression of Indonesian popular culture and how the new post-colonial avatar is deployed to address problematics of gender, shame, and sexual orientation. The question arises as to the analogy between the emblematic Kartini, revered in Indonesia as the epitome of perfect heterosexual femininity, and the new-fangled Kartini figure in fictional form.
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Pugh, Tison. "Queer Ethics and Baum’s Prejudices." In Queer Oz, 186–92. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496845313.003.0009.

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The Conclusion considers the ethical stakes of reading L. Frank Baum’s fictions in light of their frequent denigrations of various non-White peoples. Baum’s fiction demands an ethical engagement that does not turn a blind eye to such issues but considers them in relation to queer intersectionalities, those that seek to unite disparate people in the quest for a more just world despite differences in race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or other such markers of personal identity. Baum’s fictions merit inclusion in any queer canon of children’s literature, but any such queer canon must encourage readers to perceive that queerness most often reflects a desire or identity rather than a virtue, and thus that queer people are as susceptible to moral and ethical failings as others. Such a queer canon would paradoxically point readers to a deeper understanding of the challenges of intersectionality and the ethical complexities of enjoying Baum’s fiction.
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Shackleford, Karen E., and Cynthia Vinney. "On Prejudice and Values." In Finding Truth in Fiction, 216–42. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190643607.003.0008.

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When it comes to race, gender, sexual orientation, and other social categories, current research continues to document a lack of inclusion and a tendency to stereotype in film and television. However, there are also signs for hope. The recent success of films like Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians, and Love, Simon is sending a message to Hollywood that audiences are more than ready for underrepresented categories. For example, Grace and Frankie is a successful show that busts stereotypes about women in their 70s and tells stories about a family that includes an older gay couple, a Black son, a recovered drug addict, and other diverse characters. This chapter examines how stories like this help bring change and reduce prejudice. In addition, it discusses the recent accusations against famous people, including Bill Cosby, and how fans cope when a beloved celebrity falls from grace.
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C. Van Vleet, Samuel, Everrett Moore, Alvin Akibar, Azlynn Osborne, and Yolanda Flores Niemann. "“With Great Power Comes Great Impressionability”: A Study of the Relation between Stereotypes and Superheroes." In Minorities - New Studies and Perspectives. IntechOpen, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.110004.

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The present multimethod research examines different stereotypes about race and ethnicity via a comic book superhero lens. This study focuses on the ascription of traits to a superhero figure developed specifically for this research, examining differences in trait ascription based on the race and sexual orientation of the hero. A diverse sample of participants (N = 371) were presented random drawings of either White, African American, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Asian, or Native American superhero images and asked questions about their perceptions of the hero’s traits, character role (hero, villain, and sidekick), powers, and socio-economic status. Additionally, hero sexual orientation was manipulated (Heterosexual × Gay), bringing 12 conditions of hero identity that were randomly assigned to participants in a 6 (Race: White × Black × Latinx × Asian × Arab × Native American) × 2 (Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual × Gay) cross-sectional design. Results indicated that participants ascribed certain traits differently based on the race of the hero as well as how race and sexuality of the hero interacted. Additionally, results supported the use of original, fictional images as a means of examining participant perceptions of race and sexuality. These empirical findings can be helpful in the creation and real-world adaptations of comic book superhero media and understanding effects of comic media on the development and dissemination of stereotypes.
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Haefele-Thomas, Ardel. "Queering the Female Gothic." In Women and the Gothic. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748699124.003.0012.

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Queering the Female Gothic’ examines work by women writers from the 1890s onwards who use the Gothic to create covert and/or overt queer situations and characters. These are often used to explore cultural and social concerns, such as restrictive patriarchal and hetero-normative family structures, the medical pathologisation of female and genderqueer bodies, institutions of racism and sexism within colonial and slave narratives, and contemporary issues surrounding the intersections of sexuality, race, class and gender identity. The chapter examines the work of a number of American and British women authors who have employed the Gothic as a proverbial safe space in which to explore these concerns; they include Vernon Lee, Florence Marryat, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Maryse Condé, Jane Chambers, Jewelle Gomez, Sarah Waters, Yvonne Heidt and Cate Culpepper. Not only do their fictions encompass queer characters and scenarios in terms of gender identities outside of the male/female binary and the full spectrum of queer sexual orientation, but the authors themselves, taken as a group, embody the full spectrum as far as gender identity and sexual orientation are concerned.
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Conference papers on the topic "Sexual orientation – fiction"

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Bucher, Benoit, Maiko Kobayashi, and Katsumi Watanabe. "Do Fictive Sexual Orientations Induce In-Group Bias in Emotion Recognition?" In 2023 27th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC). IEEE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsec59635.2023.10329647.

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