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  1. 1. Gender and Sexuality on Gethen : A Contemporary Analysis of Ursula K le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Ellen Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : gender; sexuality; Ursula K Le Guin; The Left Hand of Darkness; science fiction; kön; sexualitet; Ursula K Le Guin; Mörkrets Vänstra Hand; science fiction;

    Abstract : Ursula K Le Guin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) because she wanted to explore the limitations of gender and sexuality in a way that reflected the ongoing epistemic changes in her society. She created the Gethenians, an ambisexual, androgynous species that live most of their life without an assigned sex, making their entire society lack the concept of gender. READ MORE

  3. 2. GIRLFAGS AND GUYDYKES - Too queer for straights, and too straight for queers

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

    Author : Siri Lindqvist; [2019]
    Keywords : girlfag; guydyke; sexual minorities; autogynephilia; lesbian man; queer identities; queer; fluid sexuality; genderqueer; bisexualities; autoandrophilia; homosexuality; gender identity; girlfags and guydykes; genderfluid;

    Abstract : Aim. To highlight how girlfags and guydykes describe their identities and their experience and interpretation of the identity labels. Background and previous studies. The sexual minority identity of girlfags and guydykes are sometimes perceived as provocative in their contradictory labels. READ MORE

  4. 3. "If you don't think about it, it doesn´t exist" : Queer Sexuality and Gender Ambiguity in Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Per-Olof Remnesjö; [2013]
    Keywords : Hemingway; Queer theory; Gender; Sexuality;

    Abstract : This essay will discuss Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream, posthumously published 1970, focusing in particular on the importance of the protagonist's fluid gender identity and interest in queer sexuality. Central to my discussion is queer theorist Judith Butler's view of gender as something performed and contextual and her objection to the binary of man and woman. READ MORE