A Passage From Brooklyn To Ithaca: The Sea, The City And The Body In The Poetics Of Walt Whitman And C. P. Cavafy,
2016
CUNY Graduate Center
A Passage From Brooklyn To Ithaca: The Sea, The City And The Body In The Poetics Of Walt Whitman And C. P. Cavafy, Michael P. Skafidas
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This treatise is the first extensive comparative study of Walt Whitman and C. P. Cavafy. Despite the abundant scholarship dealing with the work and life of each, until now no critic has put the two poets together. Whitman’s poetry celebrates birth, youth, the self and the world as seen for the first time, while Cavafy’s diverts from the active present to resurrect a world whose key, in Eliot’s terms, is memory. Yet, I see the two poets conversing in the crossroads of the fin de siècle; the American Whitman and the Greek Cavafy embody the antithesis of hope and dislocation …
The Virtue Mentality,
2016
CUNY Graduate Center
The Virtue Mentality, Rachel Eckhardt
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In my study of early feminist fiction and contemporary queer intentional communities, highly ambitious and nearly impossible aspirations emerged as a singular uniting theme. From early feminist novelists to the intrepid founders of lesbian lands, utopian women share a passionate commitment to transform the world. This thesis engages with feminist concepts of virtue and how they influence utopian projects in both fiction and in life, whether the word “virtue” itself is used to describe the project or not. Virtue has made a lasting impact on contemporary feminist utopian projects that sometimes creates conflict and often undermines its liberatory aspirations. When …
Trauma, Shame And Performance: Towards A New Topography Of Affects In Black Queer Identities,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Trauma, Shame And Performance: Towards A New Topography Of Affects In Black Queer Identities, Maite Escudero-Alías
Journal of International Women's Studies
Haitian American feminist and lesbian activist MilDred Gerestant has become one of the most acclaimed gender performers who best illustrates the malleability of gender, race and sexuality in the reconstruction of black queer identities. Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks like trauma studies, queer theory and affect theory, my contribution analyses MilDred’s gender performances as creative attempts to surpass negative affects often attached to minority identities. By exploring the affect of shame as a productive enactment of transformation and hope, rather than as a source of numbness and suffering, this article aims to offer an alternative epistemological paradigm of feminist feeling …
Family Affairs Newsletter 2016-01-15,
2016
University of Southern Maine
Family Affairs Newsletter 2016-01-15, Zack Paakkonen
Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)
FAMILY AFFAIRS was a free, twice-a-month, social activities newsletter for the GLBTQI (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans/queer/intersex) community, sent out around the 1st and 15th of each month. It covered the State of Maine only. The list was begun and maintained for many years by Jean Vermette in Bangor, and later operated by Zack Paakkonen of Portland. Over the years it evolved from a social activities newsletter into a business directory, classified ad service, and community bulletin board.
South African Marriage In Policy And Practice: A Dynamic Story,
2016
CUNY John Jay College
South African Marriage In Policy And Practice: A Dynamic Story, Michael W. Yarbrough
Publications and Research
Law forms one of the major structural contexts within which family lives play out, yet the precise dynamics connecting these two foundational institutions are still poorly understood. This article attempts to help bridge this gap by applying sociolegal concepts to empirical findings about state law's role in family, and especially in marriage, drawn from across several decades and disciplines of South Africanist scholarly research. I sketch the broad outlines of a nuanced theoretical approach for analysing the law-family relationship, which insists that the relationship entails a contingent and dynamic interplay between relatively powerful regulating institutions and relatively powerless regulated populations. …
Binational Same-Sex Couples And Families,
2016
University of San Francisco
Binational Same-Sex Couples And Families, Daniela Domínguez, Jacqueline E. Coppock
Psychology
Historically, the topics of same-sex marriage and immigration reform have been debated as separate political issues. Both issues, however, have impacted the lives of LGBTQ immigrants and their American partners. Presently in the United States, families that include same-sex binational couples are part of the increasingly diverse family landscape. Binational couples are defined here as same-sex partnerships in which one spouse or partner is an American citizen or resident and the other is a foreign national. For years, the ideological underpinnings inherent in immigration laws separated committed couples, forced couples into exile, and resulted in the deportation of partners/spouses of …
Review Of Clare Sears, Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, And Fascination In Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015),
2016
San Jose State University
Review Of Clare Sears, Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, And Fascination In Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015), Wendy Rouse
Faculty Publications, Social Sciences
A review of Clare Sears' monograph Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).
The Entanglement Of Anzaldúan Materiality As Bodily Knowing: Matter, Meaning, And Interrelatedness,
2016
University of Denver
The Entanglement Of Anzaldúan Materiality As Bodily Knowing: Matter, Meaning, And Interrelatedness, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This project weaves together the theoretically rich and diverse work of ancient materialist philosophers, modern philosophy which advanced a theory of monism, and contemporary philosophies that further extends monism into new terrain, including 'new materialism.' While monism is a strand of this project, the core features of this project are materiality and bodies; these two concepts create the particular entanglement and central thrust of this project, which is becoming. While this project is conceptually organized around matter and bodies, and a particular notion of becoming traced from ancient through contemporary thought, this project, also, introduces the importance of Gloria Anzaldúa …
Jotería-Historias: Theories From The Fringes,
2016
University of Denver
Jotería-Historias: Theories From The Fringes, Robert Mitchell Gutierrez
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
By collecting the cultural/historical narratives of gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (GBTQ) Chicanos of Colorado, this research project locates theories in the flesh, or theories of resistance and agency, in the forms of cuentos, pláticas, chismé, mitos, testimonios, and consejos to explicate a queer of color performance of intersectional and decolonial politics. To set the context, several historical and political snapshots of GBTQ Chicano experience over the last 500 years are reviewed to demonstrate how communication about, for, and between GBTQ Chicanos operate in a liminal state (nepantla) where violence, marginalization, and oppression are …
Get Over The Binary,
2016
College of the Holy Cross
Get Over The Binary, Outfront, Office Of Diversity And Inclusion
LGBTQIA Archive: Posters
Poster promoting a workshop led by Genny Beemyn, Director of the Stonewall Center at UMass Amherst, which focuses on the experiences and needs of college students with non-binary gender identities.
Sex On The Body: Representation Of The Queer Individual In Alison Bechdel's Fun Home,
2016
Bridgewater State University
Sex On The Body: Representation Of The Queer Individual In Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Samantha Correia
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Latina/O Gender And Sexuality,
2016
Gonzaga University
Latina/O Gender And Sexuality, Deena J. González, Ellie D. Hernández
History Faculty Scholarship
Gender and sexuality among US Latina/o populations encompass a continuum of experiences, historical, cultural, religious, and lived. Gender and sexuality varied by culture or ethnicity and by era across the many different Latino populations descended from Latin Americans. Latino national histories, born inside the thirty-three different Latin American countries in existence today, are united in one irrefutable link to the conquest, by Spain. The Spanish and Portuguese warred against many indigenous empires, towns, and communities encountered in 1519, and the wars continued subsequently into the 1800s, during the colonization of the Americas by other countries, including the United States.
Interview With E. Patrick Johnson,
2016
Gonzaga University
Interview With E. Patrick Johnson, Bernadette Marie Calafell
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Onanismo Y Emigración Gay En Las Memorias De Terenci Moix,
2016
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Onanismo Y Emigración Gay En Las Memorias De Terenci Moix, Iker González-Allende
Spanish Language and Literature Papers
El tercer y último volumen de las memorias de Terenci Moix, titulado Extraño en el paraíso (1998), resulta relevante para profundizar en la interconexión entre las sexualidades no normativas y las migraciones. El narrador protagonista, el joven Ramón Moix, relata su vida entre los veinte y los veinticuatro años, desde 1962 hasta 1966. Al comienzo del libro Ramón decide abandonar Barcelona y emigrar a París, después marcha a Londres y finalmente, tras un periplo de tres años, regresa a su ciudad natal. La obra se cierra con el inicio de su carrera literaria y su reconocimiento como escritor en Barcelona. …
Five Degrees: A Short Story,
2016
University of Central Florida
Five Degrees: A Short Story, Cassia E. Hinds
Honors Undergraduate Theses
An interwoven fiction piece representing four perspectives and its effects on self-awareness. The most effective way to blur the line of self in this structure is to braid the minds, voices, and stories, of each perspective. With a focal point where all the voices eventually drift to being the frame of the story, there will be a unique distance between the stories. This thesis explores the effects of different types of mental and physiological illnesses through fiction, highlighting the effect of perception on fact and the perspective of the mentally ill.
Family Affairs Newsletter 2016-01-01,
2016
University of Southern Maine
Family Affairs Newsletter 2016-01-01, Zack Paakkonen
Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)
FAMILY AFFAIRS was a free, twice-a-month, social activities newsletter for the GLBTQI (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans/queer/intersex) community, sent out around the 1st and 15th of each month. It covered the State of Maine only. The list was begun and maintained for many years by Jean Vermette in Bangor, and later operated by Zack Paakkonen of Portland. Over the years it evolved from a social activities newsletter into a business directory, classified ad service, and community bulletin board.
“I Can’T Relate”: Refusing Identification Demands In Teaching And Learning,
2016
Chapman University
“I Can’T Relate”: Refusing Identification Demands In Teaching And Learning, Ian Barnard
English Faculty Articles and Research
In literature, composition, and other areas of English Studies, relateability can be an important tool to inscribe marginalized subjects as academic citizens. However, its larger arc reproduces ethnocentric and individualistic ideologies at the national and personal levels that foreclose the true understanding of and engagement with Otherness that defines learning. What are the particular intellectual and other challenges, pleasures, and rewards of refusing the pedagogical imperative to engage and understand through identification? I conclude the article by deploying theorists of difference to ask what it means to understand difference as difference, how this understanding might be facilitated, and what the …
All In The (Prison) Family: Genre Mixing And Queer Representation,
2016
University of Kentucky
All In The (Prison) Family: Genre Mixing And Queer Representation, Kyra Hunting
Journalism and Media Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
What Do You Think I Am?: On Perceiving Unintelligibility In The Nonbinary Gender Experience,
2016
University of Montana
What Do You Think I Am?: On Perceiving Unintelligibility In The Nonbinary Gender Experience, James Warwood
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
What does it mean to be “retired from gender,” and what role does such an identity play in daily life? Engaging with the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Judith Butler, this project attempts to elucidate the experience of nonbinary – that is, external to the male/female gender binary – gendered individuals, and the ultimate unintelligibility of that experience. Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological approach to perception allows for an exploration of the social norms and regulations that determine how gender is defined in Western culture; combined with Butler’s significant work on gender and its performativity, phenomenology proves a useful tool for revealing the …
Devising Performance & Queer Futurity,
2016
Brendan Leonard
Devising Performance & Queer Futurity, Brendan F. Leonard
Honors Theses
This project argues that devising performance is an inherently queer and utopian form. In response to recent political movements, such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, which seek to stage dissatisfaction with the systems of late capitalism, I turn to devising performance as a site. Informed by the queer and performance theories of Jose Esteban Munoz, Lee Edelman, and Jill Dolan, I argue that devised theater allows us to process disillusionment, rehearse collectivity, and stage futurity. In conversation with Munoz, I define futurity as an imaginative site that considers what will follow what some scholars suggest will be …
