Essays about: "Halberstam"
Found 5 essays containing the word Halberstam.
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1. A Stranger Among Those Who Are Still Men: Reading Monsters as Performing Transgender Identities in Four Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelskaAbstract : In his book Skin Shows, Jack Halberstam posits that depictions of monsterhood in horror media can be directly comparable to different socially constructed identities, such as gender, and even transgender. But can such a comparison be made in a text regardless of its author’s biases and intentions? The purpose of this essay is to find out how the monsters in four of H. READ MORE
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2. Disorientating Love : Queer Time and Space in Contemporary Artistic Practices
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : This thesis aims to examine key elements of disorientation and queer temporality which will provide tools to understand queerness of selected contemporary artistic practices. It is concerned with the following questions: What constitutes the queerness of an artistic practice? How do contemporary queer artistic practices foreground the perspectives of queerness in their forms? What kind of disruptions they are causing in the conventional setting of artistic displays from a curatorial standpoint? Disorientations and queer temporalities, as queering the artwork, mean challenging dominant ideologies of the art object by repositioning them particularly in respect of heteronormative structures of time and space. READ MORE
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3. Whatever happens, I will never sell the mountains - A reparative analysis of the temporal, political, emotional and intellectual aspects of crafting
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate time and the values connected to different uses of time. What use is legitimate, and what is seen as a waste of time? I will argue that a general notion of time as ‘bad’ or ‘useless’ will place objects, subjects and practices in the marginal, but also establish what should be seen as important or not, which makes us value things into good and bad, effective and ineffective, worthwhile and useless. READ MORE
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4. FTM Trans Theory VS. Trans Narratives : Working Towards an Updated Trans Theory
University essay from Centrum för genusvetenskapAbstract : Theories are tools with which we critically analyze society‟s structure and understand experiences that are not our own. When theories no longer describe the narratives that they claim, we must update them. This thesis proposes to do just that. The trans theories of J. READ MORE
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5. Detecting Gender : Images of the Contemporary Woman in Crime Fiction by Patricia Cornwell and Peter Robinson
University essay from Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Den här studien har sitt fokus inom krimnalromangenren. Det finns två huvudlinjer. Först koncentrerar studien sig på vilka strategier två kvinnliga protagonister är tvungna att anta för att nå yrkesmässig framgång i en mansdominerad miljö. READ MORE
