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Some Thoughts On China's Sexual Revolution: Sexuality And Social Change In Contemporary China, Sun Zhongxin
Some Thoughts On China's Sexual Revolution: Sexuality And Social Change In Contemporary China, Sun Zhongxin
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
The last two years saw several changes in the public discourse around sex and sexuality in China. So what are some of the most controversial sex-related topics to be raised in China recently?
"More Love And More Desire": A History Of The Brazil Lesbian, Gay, And Transgendered Movement, James N. Green
"More Love And More Desire": A History Of The Brazil Lesbian, Gay, And Transgendered Movement, James N. Green
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
For many LGBT activists, the 1969 Stonewall rebellion marked the beginning of a modern international liberation movement. Diffusing outward from New York, so the prevalent notion goes, homosexuals began to organize political movements to demand equal rights, inspired by the militancy of U.S. queers. According to this widely held idea, the emergence of gay and lesbian groups was slower in "Third World countries" because of authoritarian regimes, patriarchal social structures, and backward societies.
Whose Millennium?: Religion, Sexuality And The Values Of Citizenship, Janet Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini
Whose Millennium?: Religion, Sexuality And The Values Of Citizenship, Janet Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
On April 13th and 14th, CLAGS hosts a major national conference on the theme Whose Millennium?: Religion, Sexuality, and the Values of Citizenship. The conference is being generously supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, in conjunction with CLAGS's Rockefeller Residency in the Humanities program.
Joseph Reflects On Residency, Miranda Joseph
Joseph Reflects On Residency, Miranda Joseph
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
This year I have worked primarily on two sections of my book project, Performing Community. The paper I presented at my CLAGS colloquium, a version of the first chapter of the book, focused on the "discourse of community." The idealization of community as a site of identity, commonality, communion, communication, and consensus was heavily critiqued in the 1980s by feminist and poststrucutralist theorists who recognized that identity-based communities are, in fact, quite exclusionary and oppressive, defining themselves in opposition to others, universalizing the particularities upon which they are based, and erasing differences among community members.