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Paradise Found? Black Gay Men In Atlanta: An Exploration Of Community, Tobias L. Spears
Paradise Found? Black Gay Men In Atlanta: An Exploration Of Community, Tobias L. Spears
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This study examines the ways in which Black gay men in Atlanta create and experience community and culture every day, notwithstanding those discursive sources that situate life for Black gay men as particularly troubled. Drawing on ethnographic methods, including participant observation and interviewing, I attempt to show the complexity of Black gay men by exploring their world in Atlanta, Georgia, a city that has increasingly become known as a Black Gay Mecca. Qualitative research examining the ways Black gay men create and experience community has the potential to broaden academic discourses that have increasingly medicalized the Black gay male experience, …
"Mother May I? Food, Power And Control In Mothers And Daughters", Lisa Joy Borello
"Mother May I? Food, Power And Control In Mothers And Daughters", Lisa Joy Borello
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Fourteen women in the United States were interviewed to determine the role mothers played in shaping their daughters’ attitudes toward their bodies and eating, and the extent to which women negotiated the messages they received from their family and larger culture concerning weight and appearance. Results of this study complicated existing theories concerning the factors that most influence women’s self-esteem and body image. The results demonstrated that the women within this sample engaged in a variety of disordered eating patterns, but did not recognize their own actions as out-of-the-ordinary; rather they re-produced familial and cultural messages about women’s “normative body …