The aim of this study is to make visible and analyze how male subordination is described and which ideals of masculinity are highlighted as worthy of aspiration in material from internet personality Andrew Tate. The material consists of interviews and podcasts that are available on the internet. The analysis draws on a qualitative content analysis, in which three feminist perspectives are used as an analytical lens for interpreting the material: liberal feminism, radical feminism and queer theory. The results show that male subordination is described as coming from an inverted gender order, a matriarchy, as well as inherent differences between the nature of the sexes that inhibit men. Among these inherent differences is a male sense of duty and a societal view of male value as lower than female. The results also show that violence, dampening of emotions, and money constitute masculinity traits that are highlighted as desirable. Tate's view of male subordination and ideals of masculinity is characterized by a tendentious argument that collides with the three feminist perspectives. Thus, it is possible to understand Tate's approach as anti-feminist, which is consistent with research on, among other things, the Manosphere that Tate can be connected to.

Under the hopeful atmosphere of Turkey's accession to full membership to European Union, Turkey became oriented towards realizing extensive legal and constitutional amendments, as well as juridical reforms in restructuring the contemporary body of law and judicial institutions based on the promise of strengthening access to justice mechanisms and improving human rights laws and practices in Turkey that was shaped by the discourses of democratic governance, rule of law, and economic progress. At the beginning of the second decade of 2000, the affective atmosphere in Turkey abruptly changed by a series of national and international crises, leading into an impasse in the ordinary life in Turkey. This dissertation aims to examine the promise of legal change as the history of the present of law and legal practice in Turkey. Focusing on everyday personal and professional practices of avukats (attorneys) in addressing the legal issues of gender and sexuality, I explore how the narratives of legal change historically inform the aesthetic formation of the contemporary body of law, as well as the differences between ordinary and professional bodies. Building on theories of affect and queer theories, I argue that the law constitutes both a historical site of socio-cultural belonging and an everyday social space within and through which professional bodies become oriented towards generating the possibilities of socio-legal change, depending how their personal and professional experiences and encounters shape their everyday legal practices and how they reside within judicial and professional positionalities in practicing the law. / Doctor of Philosophy / Starting from early 2000s, the contemporary body of law and judicial institutions underwent drastic changes, which accelerated by Turkey's accession to full membership to European Union. Under the discourses of democratic governance, rule of law, and economic progress, Turkey realized extensive legal and constitutional amendments, as well as juridical reforms with an emphasis on strengthening access to justice mechanisms and improving human rights laws and practices in Turkey. A series of national and international crises, which broke out at the begging of the second decade of 2000s, led Turkey to enter into a political and economic deadlock. In this dissertation, I examine the historical meanings attributed to the body and practice of law in discussing how the legal professional bodies are affected from the recent crises. Focusing on everyday personal and professional practices of avukats (attorneys) in addressing the legal issues of gender and sexuality, I explore how the historical narratives concerning legal change shaped the conventions of the form and content of the law, as well as the differences between the personal and professional identities. I argue that law constitutes a historical site in which socio-cultural norms and hierarchies are negotiated and a social space within and through which professional bodies negotiate the possibilities of social change, depending on how they shape their everyday personal and professional practices and how they position themselves within judicial and professional relations.

[ES] En esta investigación proponemos abordar diferentes vínculos entre sexualidad e informática, a través de una lectura queer de la historia computacional tras una selección de diferentes episodios o casos. Para ello utilizamos la estrategia de una "genealogía queer" como una apropiación desviada de la noción de "genealogía" tal como la estableció Foucault en su lectura de Nietzsche, es decir, como un tipo de metodología, posicionamiento o punto de vista para acercarse críticamente a un objeto en su desarrollo temporal, contraponiéndose a la forma hegemónica en la que ese objeto ha sido tradicionalmente descrito o pensado. En este caso, el modo hegemónico en que se ha abordado la informática y los algoritmos es el de una supuesta neutralidad matemática en relación con los sistemas de sexo/género y la heteronormatividad. Al tratarse de una genealogía, también se supera la lógica lineal y sistemática propia del análisis histórico. La apertura genealógica tolera estiramientos temporales radicales, lo que permite abarcar episodios o casos siguiendo una temporalidad amplia y discontinua. El primer núcleo temporal y situado realiza una lectura sexodisidente a un tipo singular de tecnología informática indígena: los "quipus" andinos, especialmente en torno a su opacidad informática producto de la violencia colonial. El segundo núcleo temporal de los casos se concentra en la primera mitad del siglo XX, cuando el uso informático de los algoritmos computacionales comienza a ser teorizado y aplicado. En primer lugar, abordamos las teorizaciones del matemático y criptógrafo inglés Alan Turing, quien fuera condenado legalmente por su homosexualidad. En este núcleo también revisamos la primera imagen computacional conocida del proyecto SAGE de la fuerza aérea norteamericana, una chica pin-up programada en esos computadores militares y visible en una fotografía polaroid de fines de la década del 50 del siglo XX. El tercer núcleo corresponde a la década de los 80 del siglo XX hasta la actualidad, en que ese uso de la tecnología algorítmica computacional ha alcanzado un desarrollo que podríamos denominar "hegemónico", desde los prototipos computacionales para la creación de perfiles de usuario hasta proyectos recientes que utilizan redes neuronales artificiales para descifrar la sexualidad de personas en base a fotografías de rostro. También las disputas más recientes sobre el alcance de los algoritmos en relación con la política y el arte queer y feminista. / [CA] En aquesta investigació proposem abordar diferents vincles entre sexualitat i informàtica, mitjançant una lectura queer de la història computacional després d'una selecció de diferents episodis o casos. Per això utilitzem l'estratègia d'una "genealogia queer" com una apropiació desviada de la noció de "genealogia" tal com la va establir Foucault en la lectura de Nietzsche, és a dir, com un tipus de metodologia, posicionament o punt de vista per apropar-se críticament a un objecte en el seu desenvolupament temporal, contraposant-se a la forma hegemònica en què aquest objecte ha estat tradicionalment descrit o pensat. En aquest cas, la manera hegemònica en què s'ha abordat la informàtica i els algoritmes és una suposada neutralitat matemàtica en relació amb els sistemes de sexe/gènere i l'heteronormativitat. Com que es tracta d'una genealogia, també se supera la lògica lineal i sistemàtica pròpia de l'anàlisi històrica. L'obertura genealògica tolera estiraments temporals radicals, cosa que permet abastar episodis o casos seguint una temporalitat àmplia i discontínua. El primer nucli temporal i situat realitza una lectura sexodissident a un tipus singular de tecnologia informàtica indígena: els quipus andins, especialment al voltant de la seva opacitat informàtica producte de la violència colonial. El segon nucli temporal dels casos es concentra a la primera meitat del segle XX, quan l'ús informàtic dels algorismes computacionals comença a ser teoritzat i aplicat. En primer lloc, abordem les teoritzacions del matemàtic i criptògraf anglès Alan Turing, que fos condemnat legalment per la seva homosexualitat. En aquest nucli també revisem la primera imatge computacional coneguda del projecte SAGE de la força aèria nord-americana, una noia pin-up programada en aquests computadors militars i visible en una fotografia polaroid de finals de la dècada del 50 del segle XX. El tercer nucli correspon a la dècada dels 80 del segle XX fins a l'actualitat, en què aquest ús de la tecnologia algorítmica computacional ha aconseguit un desenvolupament que podríem anomenar "hegemònic", des dels prototips computacionals per a la creació de perfils d'usuari fins a projectes recents que utilitzen xarxes neuronals artificials per desxifrar la sexualitat de persones sobre la base de fotografies de rostre. També les disputes més recents sobre l'abast dels algorismes en relació a la política i l'art queer i feminista. / [EN] In this research we propose to address different links between sexuality and computing, through a queer reading of computational history after a selection of different episodes or cases. For this we use the strategy of a "queer genealogy" as a misappropriated appropriation of the notion of "genealogy" as established by Foucault in his reading of Nietzsche, that is, as a type of methodology, positioning or point of view to critically approach to an object in its temporal development, opposing the hegemonic way in which that object has traditionally been described or thought. In this case, the hegemonic way in which informatics and algorithms have been approached is that of a supposed mathematical neutrality in relation to sex/gender systems and heteronormativity. As it is a genealogy, the linear and systematic logic of historical analysis is also overcome. The genealogical opening tolerates radical temporal stretching, which makes it possible to cover episodes or cases following a wide and discontinuous temporality. The first temporal and situated nucleus performs a sex-dissident reading of a unique type of indigenous computer technology: the Andean "quipus", especially around their computer opacity as a result of colonial violence. The second temporal nucleus of the cases is concentrated in the first half of the 20th century, when the computer use of computational algorithms begins to be theorized and applied. In the first place, we address the theories of the English mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing, who was legally convicted of his homosexuality. In this core we also review the first known computational image of the US Air Force's SAGE project, a pin-up girl programmed in those military computers and visible in a polaroid photograph from the late 1950s. The third nucleus corresponds to the 1980s up to the present, in which the use of computational algorithmic technology has reached a development that we could call "hegemonic", from computational prototypes for the creation of user profiles to projects recent ones that use artificial neural networks to decipher the sexuality of people based on photographs of their faces. Also the most recent disputes about the reach of algorithms in relation to queer and feminist politics and art. / Rivas Sanmartín, F. (2022). Una genealogía queer de los algoritmos computacionales [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/187463

This dissertation explores verbal and visual representations of the abject body in Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York (published 1940), Viaje a la luna (1929), El público (1930-1931), and his drawings from 1929-1930. Grounded in queer theory, transgender studies, and Blackness studies, I explore how Lorca’s images of somatic abjection challenge hegemonic ideas of gender, sexuality, and race in the depiction of queer and otherwise marginalized identities. The dissertation focuses on abjection in three major poems from Poeta en Nueva York, beginning with “Oda a Walt Whitman.” In Chapter 1, I identify an Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy between the figure of Whitman and the urban maricas, and explore how the abject effeminacy of the latter, and their excessively feminine performances, challenge the heterosexual reproductive order. Chapter 2 examines the abject fluids of vomit and blood in “Paisaje de la multitud que vomita” and “El Rey de Harlem.” I analyze the correlation between the mujer gorda’s physical size and her abject, Dionysian “vomiting multitude.” The second part of the chapter reads “El Rey de Harlem” in the light of Frantz Fanon’s racial phenomenology in order to explore Lorca’s representations of Blackness and masculinity. I argue that the primitivist motifs of blood, music, and nature associated here with erotic representations of the Black masculine body create an ambivalent poem that is at once empowering and exoticizing. Chapter 3 analyzes the uncompleted film scenario Viaje a la luna, which I contend portrays queer anxieties about gender and sexuality through the “nervous gestures” and exposed body of the protagonist. Discussion of the scenario leads to discussion of abjection in the drawing Muerte de Santa Rodegunda. I argue that in Lorca’s drawings of mutilated and plant-like bodies, we see a transformative vision of what a body can be, one that pushes at the boundaries of the human. Finally, in Chapter 4, I argue for a genderqueer reading of the transgressive play El público. Performance theory, queer theory of sadomasochism and anality, transgender theory, and explorations of X-ray technology in the twentieth century help me dissect what has been called Lorca’s “impossible play.”

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / There is a psychosexual health crisis in the African American community, with disproportionate rates of HIV/AIDS infections and poorer medical treatment outcomes for Black men and women (Fullilove, 2006; CDC, 201 0). In contrast to the homophobic responses of most Black Churches, some Black Churches are offering an affirmative ministry for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) individuals. This dissertation examines how these ministries developed and what strategies they employ in response to the HIV/AIDS health crisis. Building on Stigmatization theory, Queer theory, and previous research on Black Churches, I construct a conceptual framework for interpreting this phenomenon. Using the Heuristic methodology, I explore the historical, theological, and practical dimensions of four LGBT -affirming African American ministries. During a period of four to six weeks with each church, I conducted two narrative mterviews with the pastors, 15 to 20 hours of observation of ministry activities, and a review of church documents regarding relationships with the LGBT community. Using narrative analysis and grounded theory, I analyzed the interviews, documents and observational field notes for evidence of the LGBT affirmative ministry. I constructed holistic profiles of each church and a composite profile of the four. All four pastors credited formal theological education and personal experiences with the LGBT community as sources of their theologies. Two of the pastors self-identified as members of the LGBT community; LGBT inclusion was the central focus of their ministries. The other two pastors integrated LGBT inclusion into a broad based social justice ministry that focused on multiple oppressions, including racism and sexism. All four pastors seek to avoid the psychological, spiritual, and physical harm that homophobic Black churches inflict on LGBT Black folk, and seek thereby to discourage behaviors that contribute to the proliferation of HIV/AIDS. Each pastor offered LGBT affirmative strategies for decreasing LGBT stigmatization and HIV infections in the Black community. / 2999-01-01

This autotheoretical dissertation delves into the complex and often invisible dynamics of cisheteronormativity within the landscape of American public schools. Drawing from personal narrative, feminist, queer, and trans theories, and educational research, this meditative study offers a nuanced examination of the ways in which cisheteronormativity not only shapes the educational experiences of students, educators, and administrators alike, but also shapes the system of schooling itself. Through introspective reflection and critical analysis, the researcher navigates their own lived experiences within the educational system as a queer and trans student and teacher, illuminating the pervasive influence of cisheteronormative ideologies on identity formation, social interactions, and institutional policies. By centering the researcher's personal narrative as a lens through which to explore broader sociocultural phenomena, this dissertation challenges traditional academic conventions and offers a more intimate and embodied theorizing of queerness and transness in American schools. Through an autotheoretical framework, this study seeks to disrupt dominant narratives and interrogate power structures within educational spaces, including those that dictate what constitutes “research” and “theory.” By amplifying marginalized voices and offering alternative ways of knowing and being, this dissertation aims to contribute to ongoing efforts to create more equitable and affirming educational environments for all students, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation.

Thesis advisor: Patrick Proctor / Jacqueline Woodson has been writing for children, young adults, and adults for thirty-two years. She has won numerous national and international awards for her writing for young people. Her books grapple with topics like teen pregnancy and incarceration with sensitivity and compassion. Her young adult literature deserves closer examination for their potential as instructional tools for English teachers. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the history of African American children’s literature, the nature of Woodson’s contribution to contemporary African American young adult literature, and to make direct links to teaching Woodson’s YA literature in contemporary high school English classrooms. To these ends, this dissertation has three analytic chapters. In Chapter One, I present a history of African American children’s literature to situate Jacqueline Woodson’s work in the tradition of African Americans writing culturally and racially affirming text for Black children. The chapter highlights Black women who were actively writing during the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Black Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement, and whose work undergirds much of Jacqueline Woodson’s success. Specifically, I highlight the works of Jessie Fauset, Effie Lee Newsome, Gwendolyn Brooks, June Jordan, and Virginia Hamilton. In Chapter Two, I analyze a set of young adult literature written by Jacqueline Woodson. Specifically, I analyzed 10 of Woodson’s YA texts with Black girl protagonists through the lenses of Black Feminist Thought, Black Queer Theory, and Black English. I identified three themes that ran through Woodson’s work and were related to the theoretical lenses: (1) claiming and naming oneself, (2) finding community and belonging, and (3) remembering. Finally, in Chapter Three I provide four sample unit plans derived from the analyses in Chapters 1 and 2. The first unit plan uses Woodson’s text as a mentor text for student self-reflection. The second unit pairs Woodson’s text with a text written by Virginia Hamilton to understand the impacts of coal mining. The third unit uses Black Feminist Thought to analyze and compare one of Woodson’s texts with an adult text written by a Black woman. In the final unit plan, students study Woodson’s memoir in verse to understand how authors use their own lived experiences to create stories. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

No / Leadership has proved impossible to define, despite decades of research and a huge number of publications. This article explores managers’ accounts of leadership, and shows that they find it difficult to talk about the topic, offering brief definitions but very little narrative. That which was said/sayable provides insights into what was unsaid/ unsayable. Queer theory facilitates exploration of that which is difficult to talk about, and applying it to the managers’ talk allows articulation of their lay theory of leadership. This is that leaders evoke a homoerotic desire in followers such that followers are seduced into achieving organizational goals. The leader’s body, however, is absent from the scene of seduction, so organizational heteronormativity remains unchallenged. The article concludes by arguing that queer and critical leadership theorists together could turn leadership into a reverse discourse and towards a politics of pleasure at work.

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This dissertation deploys queer theory and temporality to investigate the ways in which American authors were writing about identity at the turn of the twentieth century. I provide a more expansive use of queer theory, and argue that queerness moves beyond sexual and gender identity to have intersectional implications. This is articulated in the phrase "queer textual libido" which connects queer theory with affect and temporal theories. Queerness reveals itself on both narrative and rhetorical levels, and can be used productively to show the complex navigation between individual and national identity formation.