This dissertation searches for a body of queer modernist poetry while at the same time attempting to rework the definition of “queer.” In chapter I, I use a reconceptualization of queerness not as an abstract, theoretical rendering of the breakdown of identity categories but in its fundamental, historical sense: a political coalition made up of individuals with different subjective sexual identities who are similarly marginalized in decidedly sexual terms. Thus, this project seeks to locate texts that demonstrate moments of empathy, intersection, and cooperation between LGBT speakers, characters, or editors and people with different sexualities, races, or abilities. In this project, I avoid traditional, well-known texts of modernism in favor of recovering forgotten work by non-heterosexual authors who have been at one time or another marginalized in the canon and in society at large—Amy Lowell, Langston Hughes, and Hart Crane. In order to rediscover this overlooked work by formerly forgotten poets, the project utilizes archival research and a material methodology in which I analyze poems not just in the abstract but in their original, ephemeral locations and venues: archival manuscripts, little magazines, and book-length collections. In chapter II, I uncover an experimental editorial method that Lowell pioneered in her Some Imagist Poets anthologies in which, rather than selecting and editing the selection as a traditional editor, she offered equal space to each contributor to choose and arrange their own suite of poetry. In chapter III, I analyze Hughes’ “A House in Taos” in both its first publication in a Mexico-based literary journal then in one of his own understudied collections, arguing that the poem represents an interracial, bisexual triad. In the chapter on Crane, I analyze several versions of a poem about a young man with a cognitive disability with whom Crane was acquainted while vacationing in Cuba, showing that, when the poem is set outside of the U. S. border, the speaker evinces a deep empathy for the marginalized young man.

Pacifique is a novel of trauma and recovery set in contemporary Victoria, British Columbia. Tia, the protagonist, meets Pacifique one cold February evening. Five sex- and passion-fueled nights later, a bike ride ends with Tia's head colliding with concrete. When she wakes, Pacifique is gone. Worse, it's unclear whether Pacifique ever existed in the first place. Driven mad in the search for a woman who may be a figment of her imagination, Tia is institutionalized in a psychiatric ward. The doctors tell her she is suffering from head-injury induced psychosis; her fellow patients—including Andrew, a man with schizophrenia—urge her to forget Pacifique. Told in chapters alternating between Tia's and Andrew's points of view, the novel keeps readers asking: is Pacifique real? The novel examines notions of credibility and truth: whom to believe? The medical establishment or the “patients”? The novel also examines how behaviour outside the heteronormative—particularly “obsessive” behaviour or “fantasies”—are pathologized in our culture. Fundamentally, the novel is a story about the thin veil between fantasy and reality, about the choices we make to be happy—and how these choices cannot always coexist. Inspired by Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Holly Luhning’s Quiver and Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, Pacifique can be situated within the psychological thriller genre in the way it plays with the notion of reality and alternate realities.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Audrey Goodman, committee chair; Mary Hocks, Nancy Chase, committee members. Electronic text (72 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed September 17, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72).

The aim of this thesis is to engage with current debates surrounding contemporary performance, queer theory and the body, which proffer a number of complex and contentious questions. How does queer theory work in practice, and does performance provide the ideal context for such deliberation? How do the subjective essentialisms of performance conflict with ideas of queer performativity and the deconstruction of sexual identity? Drawing upon corporeal and ontological theories of the body in conflict with queer strategic critiques, an attempt is made to articulate a problematically "essential" form of queer subjectivity in performance. By exploring the potential "origins" of a preceding queer practice in the works of Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht and Jean Genet, the work proposes that their approach to theatre and performance articulated and deployed a particularly "deviant" form of expression and aesthetic. They established an approach to theatre and performance, which has continued to inspire and influence anti-essentialist and political forms of queer performance in the new millennium. From the early struggles of lesbian and gay theatre in the politically volatile context of the seventies and early eighties, the thesis foregrounds a liberating yet problematic attempt at enabling a "transformation" in British and North American theatre in response to queer critical paradigms in the nineties. Critical paradigms that are consistently promoted as the unique "product" of a postmodem deconstructive culture, and yet derive much from the works of the early avant-garde, the experiments of the sixties and the subversive texts of post-war British theatre. The nineties have witnessed a proliferation of gay/queer-oriented performance "break through" into the populist mainstream, and the "heteronormative" culture in general. The concluding section focuses upon ideas of a queer corporeality that seeks to remap the significatory potential of the live body in performance, in conflict with discursive inscriptions that attempt to fix and regulate categories of gender and sexuality. Yet, what role does the spectator/audience play in relation to this "activated" queer form of performance? How is the gaze/reception problematised, or does it subvert the very efficacy of queer theory itself?

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. I will argue that the issues of gender identity and queer forms of sexuality are ever-present throughout the novel, and that in the protagonist Thomas Hudson, Hemingway presents a different hero in comparison to the hardboiled macho-man he has been claimed to glorify in his work. My thesis is that the protagonist's denial of his ambiguous gender identity and his interest in queer sexualitey are the underlying causes for the development of the plot. The novel will be discussed in relation to the thesis in chronological order: first, it examines the protagonist's detachment and separation from his sons; second, his difficulties to sustain any longer relationships with women, and third, why he never dares to trust the people who say they love him.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Communication and Culture, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-05, Section: A, page: 1705. Adviser: Joan Hawkins. "Title from dissertation homepage (viewed Jan. 14, 2008)."

Using autoethnography, this dissertation explores the relationship between my experiences through the treatment of papillary thyroid carcinoma and crip-queer theory. This dissertation seeks to bridge queer theory, disability studies, and medical discourse through personal experience. Additionally, by employing autoethnography, this study creates nuanced narratives of living with chronic illness at the intersections of disability and queerness. In Chapter One I provide a rationale and provide a cursory explanation of crip-queer theory. In my second chapter I employ Robert McRuer’s notion of the origin story to chart the development of crip-queer theory by looking to the similar activist histories of disability and sexuality within the United States. In Chapter Three I examine my solo performance Orphan Annie Eyes: Overcoming Narratives of Cancer and Loss, arguing that the performance challenges common narrative tropes surrounding disability. In my fourth chapter I use autoethnography to explore my experiences going through cancer treatment. Finally, my fifth chapter explores the implications of this dissertation and seeks to identify future research studies using crip-queer theory.

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The aim of this study was to investigate how transgender people may experience the services that are offered by the Social Services. To fulfill the aim, the researchers decided to focus on the transgender peoples’ perspectives, and therefore chose to interview them and put them in an expert position. In this study a qualitative approach was used, and the data was gathered through two semi-structured face-to-face interviews. The main result was that the participants experienced that the Social Services sometimes might not have the right knowledge to give them proper information, sufficient support and the help they needed. Therefore, the participants often searched for information on their own, and the trust for the Social Services was unsatisfactory. One conclusion that could be drawn from this study was that the Social Services need to increase and improve their level of knowledge within this subject.

Orientador(a): Patricia Porchat Pereira da Silva Knudsen / Banca: Larissa Maués Pelúcio Silva / Banca: Thamy Claude Ayouch / Resumo: Ainda que o debate sobre as relações entre educação e sexualidade venha se ampliando nos últimos anos no contexto brasileiro, é notável com o aumento de situações que envolvem aviltamentos à realização da educação sexual nas escolas, que também as resistências a esse debate acompanhem sua ampliação. Para a psicanálise, a emergência de resistências subjetivas se dá quando o movimento das ideias e dos afetos entram em conflito. Quando relacionadas à educação sexual, estas resistências podem ser representadas, sobretudo, pelo pânico moral decorrente de construções discursivas que associam este campo a uma prática pedagógica "perigosa" que supostamente teria o poder de produzir sujeitos desviantes dos ideais heteronormativos de gênero e de sexualidade. Nesta pesquisa, de caráter bibliográfico-investigativo, reconhecendo a importância de compreender este fenômeno para além de seu aparente essencialismo e pondo em questão, através da psicanálise, aquilo que as próprias resistências podem elucidar sobre aqueles que resistem e sobre aquilo que desperta resistências, busca-se identificar e problematizar diferentes modos de se resistir a modelos "normativos", "críticos" e "pós-identitários" de educação sexual. A obra da psicanalista estadunidense Deborah Britzman, na medida em que oferece subsídios para o alcance do objetivo geral da pesquisa de investigar mecanismos psíquicos envolvidos nas resistências à educação sexual, torna-se a base deste trabalho. Articulando escritos selecionad... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Although the debate about the approach between education and sexuality has been growing in recent years in the Brazilian context, it is remarkable that also situations that involve criticisms to the realization of sex education in schools have been growing as well. So, the resistances to this debate also have been accompanying its expansion. For psychoanalysis, the emergence of subjective resistance occurs when the movement of ideas and affects come into conflict. When related to sex education, these resistances can be represented, above all, by the moral panic arising from discursive constructions that associate this educational field with a "dangerous" pedagogical practice that supposedly would have the power to produce deviant subjects from heteronormative ideals of gender and sexuality. In this bibliographical-investigative research, recognizing the importance of understanding this phenomenon beyond its essentialist appearance and calling into question, through psychoanalysis, what resistance itself can elucidate about those who resist and about that which arouses resistance, the aim is to identify and to problematize different ways of resisting "normative", "critical" and "post-identitary" sex education models. Therefore, the work of the North-American psychoanalyst Deborah Britzman becomes the basis of this work since it provides support to achieve the research's general purpose which is to investigate psychic mechanisms involved in resistances to sex education. Articul... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre