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This article briefly reviews literature on responses towards same-sex (lesbian and gay) sexualities from psychoanalytic and ‘lesbian and gay affirmative’ psychotherapeutic perspectives. An analysis is presented of reports of... more
""L’objectif est de mettre au jour la construction de l’événement dans sa rhétorique et sa performance, sa diffusion médiatique et sa reconnaissance sociale. Comment la production discursive autour de la Marche des Fiertés 2011... more
Lesbians have limited visibility or representation in educational research, and there has been even less consideration of the ways that lesbians’ experiences are racialized. Using a methodological approach that entwines Karen Barad’s... more
Interviews about how Gay Pride went from being political protest by lesbians, queers and transgender folks to a commercialized party for straight people.
Today, identity politics seems almost quaint. Faded into memory are NEA funding battles and culture wars over representations of identities, dismantling of identity-based social programs such as college admissions and affirmative action,... more
Over the least decade, the hopes of fighting oppression and discrimination against gay people in Africa by means of introducing and strengthening laws which defend equal rights and cultural and personal diversity has become increasingly... more
Nell’Atene della fine degli anni Venti due giovani donne, la studentessa Dora e l’emancipata Lisa, si conoscono e si innamorano. Dora, più introversa e riflessiva, scrive la cronaca, in forma diaristica, di questo amore due volte... more
Many Native women embrace the term two-spirit to capture their sexuality and gender expression. By analyzing the narratives of five two-spirit women who are Native activists, we explored contemporary understandings of the concept and what... more
HUFFINGTON POST BEST FILM BOOK OF 2016, FINALIST FOR RICHARD WALL MEMORIAL AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR KRASZNA-KRAUSA BEST MOVING IMAGE BOOK OF 2016. Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with the... more
O lesbianismo foi tema central nos estudos, teorias e escritos de Monique Wittig (1935-2003). O lesbianismo é, para autora, o único conceito além das categorias homem e mulher; é um conceito revolucionário. La Contrainte à... more
The authors conducted a content analysis of articles listed in PubMed on bisexual health (N = 348). Methodological approaches favored cross-sectional surveys. Fewer than 20% of the articles analyzed data for bisexuals separately; most... more
This link [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2363_reg.html] leads to my Introduction to the edited collection Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters Across the Modern World (Temple UP, 2015). The collection... more
Lesbians are said to have no culture. But the lesbian movement has searched and found cultural artefacts. They are poems and sculptures, myths and stories, music, art and archaeology. Lesbian culture can be found in how words are used. So... more
In two studies, this thesis depicts the relationship between minority group status in the United States, perceived discrimination, and coping with stress. Past literature on coping and its types – problem-focused versus emotion-focused –... more
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color is coming out from Nightboat Books on May 1, 2018, though I originally began editing this project about four years ago with Lambda Literary, as an online journal. The anthology... more
Dr. Marie Cartier’s Baby You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall provides an accessible and thought provoking analysis of mid-20th Century American butch-femme bar culture and how it should be interpreted as a... more
Il saggio di Raffaella Perna documenta la ricerca fotografica del barone tedesco Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931) attraverso una rilettura delle fonti d'epoca, documenti inediti e scritti autografi, per mettere in luce gli aspetti... more
In the second half of the 19th century, two Spanish primary school teachers were married despite the fact that their legal status as women rendered this union not only illegal but also publicly scandalous. In 2008 their story was... more
Commentators have suggested that Nella Larsen’s Passing rejects the view that there is some sort of black essence. I want to challenge this reading. Since Irene is the most vocal advocate of an essence in respect to which all blacks are... more
Labor and delivery nurses are used to women delivering babies. What happens when men get pregnant and deliver babies? How can the obstetrical nurse care for this pregnant man?
This book examines how sexological ideas about desire and the body made their way from German science into British literary culture at the turn of the last century. It shows that fiction not only influenced the vocabulary of European... more