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Laverne Cox And The Fight For Lgbt+ Rights, Kelley Ambrose
Laverne Cox And The Fight For Lgbt+ Rights, Kelley Ambrose
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This research paper highlights Laverne Cox and her life, accomplishments, and fight for equality among women, people of color, and the LGBT+ community. It speaks of different laws and regulations that hold or have held transgender people back and explains Cox’s relevance to the First Year Seminar course “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”. It also touches on discrimination and the problems faced by transgender people in America.
Incomplete Utopianism: Homosexuality In The Dispossessed, Beck O. Adelante
Incomplete Utopianism: Homosexuality In The Dispossessed, Beck O. Adelante
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This paper draws on research about queer theory and history to analyze, through a literary utopian lens, Ursula K. Le Guin’s treatment of homosexuality in her novel The Dispossessed. The novel itself is said to be “an ambiguous utopia,” a description that holds up in an analysis of the other various parts of the novel. When it comes to sexuality, however, Le Guin’s discussion and writing on the topic is notably lacking. It is paid lip service through a brief showing of neutral attitude on the “anarchist” planet in the novel, but never given further analysis or a more …