Thesis (M.A.)--North Carolina State University, 2002. / Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 2, 2005). Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-88).

Scholarship on the cultural status of the child in America has taken diverse and fruitful forms, yet there exists a significant ellipsis within theories of filmic spectatorship regarding cinematic children. This study engages the child figure's relation to the cinematic apparatus and analyzes spectator responses to the child's presentation as a desiring subject and desired object. Within contemporary American culture, the child figure generates at once a mise-en-scène of desire and a mise-en-abime of potential stigmatization, self-abjection and shame. The vexed relation to the image of the child that characterizes the contemporary adult citizen and, more pointedly, the adult spectator, is a symptom of the contradictory discourses of childhood at play in contemporary American media and within its political bodies. The Columbine shootings, the murder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, the Catholic Church scandals, many well-publicized child abductions, and countless occurrences over the past decade have produced a climate of moral panic over children's endangerment. Yet, more than ever, the eroticization of children's bodies has inundated cinematic and other media productions, generating anxieties within the adult spectator concerning the propriety of gazing at children. Juvenile desires suggests that the dissonances produced by the contradictory signposts of moral panic and sexual objectification have too often given rise to a homophobically polarizing model of the adult spectator: one the one hand, the ostensibly heterosexual spectator whose relation to the child image is aesthetically distanced, moral, and nostalgic; and on the other, a perverse, likely homosexual spectator whose relation is libidinal, regressive, and genitally oriented. As a theoretical intervention and a reception study, this dissertation examines the term pedophilia as one both culturally over-determined and critically under-investigated. The deployment of the term pedophilia has the rhetorical effect of reducing the complex relations sustained among adult spectators and children to a space of inarticulate abjection or criminality. The dissertation proposes that a deconstructive queer theory can unsettle the recalcitrant association of pedophilia with homosexual pathology, and thereby afford a complex and nuanced account of the roles cinematic children play in generating visual and narrative pleasure across gendered and sexually oriented subject positions. / text

Στην παρούσα εργασία παρουσιάζεται η ποιοτική προσέγγιση των συνεντεύξεων, τριών Ελλήνων ομοφυλόφιλων ατόμων, που ζουν και εργάζονται στην Ελλάδα, της 29χρονης Kacy, του 28χρονου Μανόλη και της 32χρονης Μάρθας. Η έρευνά μας εστιάζει στο αν οι νέοι ομοφυλόφιλοι στην Ελλάδα, αντιμετωπίζουν συμπεριφορές και στάσεις διάκρισης στον εκπαιδευτικό, τον επαγγελματικό χώρο καθώς και την κοινωνική ζωή και πώς αυτή η κατάσταση είναι σε θέση να επηρεάσει την ταυτότητα και τη ζωή αυτών των ατόμων. Τα αποτελέσματα των συνεντεύξεων αναλύονται και περιγράφονται σε έξι βασικές ενότητες με σκοπό την πιο σαφή και εύστοχη επεξεργασία των δεδομένων καθώς και την πιο κατάλληλη τοποθέτησή τους στο χώρο και το χρόνο: 1. Συνειδητοποίηση διαφορετικότητας-η εμπειρία της οικογένειας, 2. διαμόρφωση προσωπικότητας -η εμπειρία του σχολείου, 3. Πρώτες ερωτικές σχέσεις-η εμπειρία του πανεπιστημίου, 4. Η επίδραση της ομοφυλοφιλίας στο μορφωτικό επίπεδο και τις επαγγελματικές επιλογές, 5. Επαγγελματική σταδιοδρομία-η εμπειρία διάκρισης στην εργασία και 6. Η «ιδανική» ζωή. Η επεξεργασία των απαντήσεων των τριών συμμετεχόντων ακολουθεί χρονικά την πορεία της ζωής τους (παιδί, έφηβος, ενήλικας), γιατί θεωρήσαμε σημαντικό να φανεί πώς η διαφοροποίηση της αλληλεπίδρασης στη σχέση του εκάστοτε εξωγενούς περιβάλλοντος με την εκάστοτε ηλικιακή φάση του κάθε ομοφυλόφιλου ατόμου, επηρέασε τα στάδια ωρίμανσής του, καθώς και όλες τις πτυχές της προσωπικής και κοινωνικής ζωής τους. / This paper presents a qualitative approach of the interviews of three Greeks homosexuals, living and working in Greece, 29 year old Kacy, 28 year old Manolis and 32 year old Martha. Our research focuses on whether the young homosexuals in Greece, face anti-gay behaviors and attitudes in education, the workplace and social life and how this state is able to influence the identity and lives of these people. The results of the interviews were categorized into the following basic six sections for a more explicit and targeted processing data and a more appropriate position in space and time: 1. Awareness of diversity-the family experience, 2. Personality shaping- experience of school, 3. Raw sexual relations-the experience of university, 4. The effect of homosexuality in educational attainment and occupational choices, 5. Career experience-discrimination at work and 6. The “ideal” life. The processing of the responses of three participants follows the course of their life (child, teen, adult), because we considered important to reflect on how the modulation of the interaction in the relationship of each exogenous environment with their particular age phase of every gay person, influenced the stages of maturation, as well as all aspects of personal and social life.

The study emerges against a global and local backdrop of longstanding oppression and stigmatization of gays and lesbians, due to their sexual orientation. Regardless of transformative policies in South Africa which declare equal acceptance, treatment and inclusion of gay and lesbian citizens, prejudice and unfair discrimination still exists. The study investigates the experiences of gays and lesbians living in the Inanda area of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa with the view to developing a greater understanding of their experiences and realities of ‘otherness’ and oppression. The conceptual model which frames the study is based on the generic model of social identity development and general model of oppression put forward by Hardiman and Jackson (1997), offering a useful lens through which to better identify oppression in the experiences and realities of gays and lesbians. The focus on understanding human experiences locates the study firmly within a qualitative research design. This focus also led to the selection of personal narratives as the strategy of inquiry, thereby allowing the researcher to enter worlds of experiences different from her own. Face- to- face, semi-structured interviews with eight participants (four gays and four lesbians, between the ages of twenty one and twenty five) comprised the method of data generation. The participants were selected as a result of a snowballing sample method. All live near each other in the Inanda area and are in regular social contact with each other. While research using a small sample of eight participants from the Inanda area cannot claim to be a comprehensive study into the experiences of gays and lesbians in all South African communities, these narratives reflect to a large degree, experiences of ‘otherness’ and oppression common to all gay and lesbian people. / M. Ed. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2014.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-89).

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2007 / Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Social Work. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-63).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Melbourne, 2002. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 30, 2005). Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-363).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of British Columbia, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 202-222).

The project Roots and Routes is an intergenerational narrative connecting three locations: London, Mandeville and Stockholm, focusing primarily on the histories of women and non-binary people. It looks at what affect it has on our sense of cultural identity to grow up in the diaspora, disconnected from the country of our parents or grandparents. Roots and Routes presents the search for a sense of belonging, whilst existing in the in-between. This report explores the different elements of the project, through text and image.