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The Fat Agenda: An Analysis Of Fatphobia, Race, Gender, Sexuality And Black Womanhood, Kara A. Lawrence
The Fat Agenda: An Analysis Of Fatphobia, Race, Gender, Sexuality And Black Womanhood, Kara A. Lawrence
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
As a result of colonialism and hegemonic patriarchy, experiencing life with intersecting oppressions is extremely taxing. The added difficulty of being overweight can contribute additional stress in an appearance driven society. Yourdictionary.com reductively defines fatphobia as “the fear and dislike of obese people and or/ obesity” (yourdictionary.com). The term is not acknowledged in more credible dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster or Oxford. Through personal narrative I will reveal the ways in which fatphobia, along with the interlocking oppressions of racism and sexism, can negatively impact the expression of Black women’s sexuality and humanity.
Misogynists Have Feelings, Too: An Analysis Of Circulating Affect In The Red Pill, Samantha Pinson Wrisley
Misogynists Have Feelings, Too: An Analysis Of Circulating Affect In The Red Pill, Samantha Pinson Wrisley
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis is a critical discourse analysis that seeks to identify and understand the various affects circulating within the anti-feminist, reactionary group, The Red Pill. The central argument is that, despite The Red Pill’s desire to cultivate an emotionless “essential masculine,” affect is made visible in these environments when it moves or circulates in the form of emotionally charged discourse.
Sexy Ambiguity And Circulating Sexuality: Assemblage, Desire, And Representation In Seba Al-Herz's The Others, Kristyn Johnson
Sexy Ambiguity And Circulating Sexuality: Assemblage, Desire, And Representation In Seba Al-Herz's The Others, Kristyn Johnson
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Sexual representations in Seba al-Herz’s Saudi Arabian novel The Others span various kinds of sexual identification and experience. Surface level readings of the novel find examples of lesbian identities and encounters, but a deeper, more nuanced examination of the novel unearths a complex set of queer desires, practices, sexual encounters, and relationships that do not fit neatly in to regulated sexual identity categories. Through literary analysis, I argue that through ambiguities in the novel’s construction and narration, and through the Narrator’s sexual experiences, The Others offers a kind of sexual expression that opens up possibilities of de-territorializing and re-territorializing sexual …