Essays about: "homonormativity"

Found 5 essays containing the word homonormativity.

  1. 1. Lost to Bias : Gender fluidity, queer themes, and challenges to heteronormativity in the work of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Jason Meredith; [2020]
    Keywords : Edward D. Wood; Jr.; camp; crossdressing; queer; transvestism; gender; performativity; exploitation cinema; queer cinema; parody.;

    Abstract : The premise of this study is to investigate homonormative concepts in the works of Edward D. Wood, Jr. Following a contextualisation of the time period he was active in, the thesis interacts with camp as a concealed queer discourse and a political voice. READ MORE

  3. 2. (Re)Articulating Sexual Citizenship: Between Queering the Urban Space and Subjugating the Queer

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Onur Kiliç; [2018]
    Keywords : politics of space; globalisation; sexuality; sexual citizenship; discourse theory; consumerism; homonormativity; post-industrial city; entrepreneurial city; creative class; post-structuralism; neoliberalism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In today’s post-industrial cities, how urban citizenship is defined and performed have been ambiguously positioned in their relationship with the urban societal space. While the cities become more commodified and privatized with the inter-urban competition, the concept of citizenship is put into a tentative position between being participatory political subjects and passive consumers. READ MORE

  4. 3. We are here, but are we queer? : A bricolage of the experiences of LGBTQ refugees in Linköping, Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Sacha Bogaers; [2018]
    Keywords : Queer asylum; LGBTQ migrants; LGBTQ asylum seekers and refugees; queer migration; collage; bricolage; intersectionality; identity;

    Abstract : In recent years, the field of queer asylum studies has slowly been expanding in different contexts across the world, with numerous methodologies and various topics of focus. In Sweden, the academic work in this area has mainly focused on legal perspectives. READ MORE

  5. 4. The straight guy who sleeps solely with men : A deep semiotic analysis of hegemonic parameters in the American television serial Empire

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Erik Welin; [2015]
    Keywords : homosubversity; representation; hegemony; ideology; homonormativity; heteronormativity; semiotics; discourse;

    Abstract : The study that follows is a deep semiotic analysis meant to shed a light on which ideologies the serial represents and communicates to its audience. In my analysis I have used the terms homonormativity and homosubversity to divide the different discursive codes and thus see if it was the former or the latter that the production of Empire preferred. READ MORE

  6. 5. The New Normal: Same-sex Families Negotiating Nuclear Family

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Author : Clémentine Thiers; [2014]
    Keywords : nuclear family; Same-sex families; homonormativity; transmission; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : France legalised same-sex marriage (mariage pour tous) in 2013. In theory, it also allows a recognition of gay and lesbian families, as the social parents can now adopt their spouses children, thus becoming themselves official parents. However, same-sex families existed prior to that law. READ MORE