Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1998. / Title from title screen (viewed 10 September, 2008). Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 273-345).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-157).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-172).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rhodes University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 258-272). Also issued electronically via World Wide Web in PDF format.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rhodes University, 2004. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Apr. 23, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 258-272).

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from title screen. Andrew Altman, committee chair; Timothy Renick, Peter Lindsay, committee members. Electronic text (62 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 3, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p.57-62).

Thesis PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Fábio Tadeu Reina / Banca: Luci Regina Muzetti / Banca: José Henrique Mazon / Resumo: O esporte na maioria das vezes tem sua representatividade fixada na masculinidade como pré-requisito básico para creditar a possibilidade de prática a qualquer indivíduo. A associação a esta representação social, cria uma cultura esportiva onde se define a esteriotipação de quais práticas cabem aos homens e quais delas cabem às mulheres numa condição de personificação do esporte. Todo e qualquer movimento contrário a esta lógica imposta como legitimação social pela classe dominante subverte a ordem e instaura-se o preconceito para além do gênero, obstruindo muitos atletas a progredirem profissionalmente nestes esportes por assumirem uma postura contrária as preconizadas como ideal de virilidade. Diante deste contexto presenciado na realidade brasileira esportiva, o voleibol é um esporte que tem uma representação social como imaginário a sua prática condizente mais para mulheres do que por homens. Devido a isto, pela execução de suas habilidades motoras especializadas e o não contato físico entre os praticantes faz dele preferido pelo público feminino em detrimento ao futebol, por exemplo, onde se exige uma corporeidade voltada ao contato físico constante entre os participantes, por isso cria-se uma corporeidade de gestos mais suaves e delicados. Por esta razão vê-se uma associação de muitos atletas homens que praticam a voleibol, também serem homossexuais e explicitam essa condição nas ações motoras do jogo. Diante disso, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo principal primeiro apo... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The sport most of the time has its representativity fixed in the masculinity like basic prerequisite to credit the possibility of practice to any individual. The association with this social representation creates a sports culture where the stereotyping of which practices fit the men and which of them fit to the women in a condition of personification of the sport is defined. Any and all movement contrary to this logic imposed as social legitimacy by the ruling class subverts the order and establishes the prejudice beyond the gender, obstructing many athletes to progress professionally in these sports because they take a contrary position to those recommended as an ideal of virility. In view of this context, seen in the Brazilian sporting reality, volleyball is a sport that has a social representation as imaginary, its practice more suitable for women than for men. Due to this, the execution of their specialized motor skills and the non-physical contact between the practitioners makes it preferred by the female audience to the detriment of the soccer, for example where a corporality is demanded for the constant physical contact between the participants, therefore it is created a body héxis of gestures more gentle and delicate. For this reason it is seen an association of many athletes men who practice volleyball are also homosexuals and they explain this condition in their corporal héxis in the motor actions of the game. In view of this, this research has as main objective to... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

This dissertation responds to the archival turn in critical theory by examining a relation between queerness, performance and the archive. In it I explore institutional archives and the metaphors of the archive as it operates in the academy, while focusing particularly on the way in which queerness may come to be archived. Throughout I use the analytic of performance. This work builds on and extends from crucial work in Queer studies, Performance Studies and Archival Studies. As such it asks what has been said and what we can say with these givens to offer what sociologist Avery Gordon has called “transformative recognition” (1997, 8). The project contributes to knowledge a mode of inquiry I create and deploy which queerly addresses current theory and practice, asking that we move beyond to consider new forms of care with such material. Among its original moves are being first to critically explore the John Sex archive, as well as the work of artists Taylor Mac, Mitch & Parry and Christa Holka. In the project, I also employ a methodological framework of the promise following the work of Shoshana Felman (2003). Throughout the chapters, case studies explore central notions to the archive: preservation, history, affect (desire) and community (lifeworlds). In writing the case studies my methods take off from ethnography as well as Performance Studies. In the end, the project is not conceived of as an archive; per se. Instead it tracks key movements of inquiry into archival practice and the situatedness of queerness in relation to such practices, as evidenced in performance, in both the theatrical and anthropological connotations of the term. I have conceived of and track three types of bodies through the dissertation: inquiring bodies, queer bodies and archival bodies. The inquiring body becomes the catalyst for archival intervention.