The general aim of the project was to describe the situation of lesbians and gay men in a nursing environment by studying the attitudes of nursing staff and students, and the experiences of gay nursing staff in their work environment and of gay patients and partners in their encounters with nursing. The study for papers I and II had a descriptive, comparative design. Nurses, assistant nurses, and nursing students completed the Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Scale (ATHS), the Causes of Homosexuality Questionnaire (CHQ), and the Affect Adjective Checklist (AAC), along with the Nursing Behaviour Questionnaire (NBQ). In general, the participating nursing staff and students expressed positive attitudes, though some subjects reported very negative attitudes toward gay people. The participants also expressed a full spectrum of emotions from delight to anger. The studies for papers III and IV had a descriptive, explorative design. Here, the data collection was performed by semi-structured interviews. The informants were gay nursing staff, gay patients and partners of patients. The gay personnel reported fear and concern about heterosexuals' reactions when these informants 'come out', and were constantly assesing the risk being open about their sexual orientation among their workmates. Nearly all patients and partners described several situations where heteronormative assumptions were communicated by the nursing staff. Almost all informants offered recommendations for nursing staff to facilitate communication. According to the presented findings, probably only a small minority in Swedish nursing have negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men. However, the informants told of heteronormative language and behaviour in nursing contexts that were percieved as insensitive, insulting and humaliating. Nursing staff need to learn how to communicate in a more natural way and to be aware of the norms they communicate through the language and behaviour they use.

[Truncated abstract] Since the late 1970s, the phrase that has captured the imagination of China's enormous socio-economic change is kaifang (opening up). This phrase signals not only a series of state-directed projects to make China a 'modern' nation, but also a self-conscious desire to find a new sense of national importance and 'Chineseness'. This nationalist self-consciousness is not new, but it indicates a desire to leave China's socialist past behind and become a world power in the new millennium. This thesis explores the complex and heightened manifestations of national pride and identity that have emerged since the era of opening up. Its central question examines how a renewed form of Chineseness, with a specific focus on a fresh form of Chinese same-sex identity, is articulated in both nationalist and globalist terms, with particular reference to China's opening up. This thesis thus contributes to an understanding of how Chinese same-sex identity in urban China is variously constructed and celebrated; how it is transformed; and how it presents its resistances in the context of China's opening up to the mighty flux of globalisation. In doing so, the research illuminates how seemingly modern and authentic Chinese gay and lesbian identities in urban China come into being at the intersection of certain competing discourses. These discourses are predominantly represented in the contexts of 1) an increasingly globalised gay culture, 2) the ongoing construction of an indigenous Chinese identity, 3) a hybridised transnational/Chinese identity, and 4) the emergence of a gay space in Chinese cyberspace. By indicating how these discourses are simultaneously globalised, localised and deterritorialised, and are necessarily entangled with global power relations, I demonstrate how an essentialised notion of Chinese same-sex identity is continuously transformed by the imaginary power of China's opening up to broader contexts. I conclude that it is within the paradigm of China's opening up to the current globalising world that same-sex identity in urban China, as a rapidly changing notion, can best be understood. ... To an extent, the articulation of seemingly modern and authentic Chinese gay and lesbian identities in urban China is in a state of continuous tension between opening up to a global identity and preserving a local authenticity. Furthermore, the development of these gay and lesbian identities is conditioned and regulated by political thought and action. In this way, political conditioning ensures control and conformity in the articulation of Chinese (same-sex) identity in a self-censored (or ziwo shencha) manner. Most fundamentally, self-censorship is practised more effectively at an individual level than at a state level. Against this background, I argue that the articulation of same-sex identity in urban China is paradoxical: open and decentred, but at the same time, nationalist and conforming to state control.

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

With the inclusion of sexual orientation in the Equality clause of the post-Apartheid constitution which demands equal rights and protection for all individuals regardless of sexual orientation, South Africa has been praised as one of the most liberal countries in the world. Because of this legal equality, gay and lesbian experiences have become a lot more visible in every day South African lives. This includes visibility in South African television programmes and film. Today, a number of South African produced television programmes have included at least one lesbian character in their storyline and many LGBTIQ activist organisations have deemed this increased visibility as a positive step for LGBTIQ rights. However, discriminatory discourses such as same-sex sexualities as 'un-African ' and unnatural, which often result in brutal hate crimes against LGBTIQ individuals (such as corrective rape), contribute to the social and cultural intolerance of same-sex sexualities. South African research into the lives of lesbian women has often related lesbian experience to that of gay men or has focused on lesbian women as victims of corrective rape and oppressive practices at the hands of the dominant heteronormative culture. This research was a discursive reception study, using three focus group discussions with self-identified lesbian audiences (black and white). The study explored how this audience received (interpreted/talked about) the available fictional representations of 'black' lesbian women and 'white' lesbian women in three clips from two South African television programmes, Society and The Mating Game. Using Wetherell's (1998) critical discursive psychology approach, this research focused on examining the 1) Subject positions made available in/by these representations; 2) Interpretive repertoires used by the audience in appropriating and/or negotiating and/or reSisting these subject positions; and 3) Ideological dilemmas experienced by participants in this negotiation process. The predominant subject positions made available in these representations were differentiated according to binary racial categories of white lesbian women and black lesbian women. For example, participants positioned white lesbian women as "lumberjacks" and "tomboys" while black lesbian women were positioned as "township lesbians" and "hood rats". In working with these subject positions, participants drew on interpretative repertoires of othering and otherness as well as interpretative repertoires of survival. In negotiating with these subject positions and others found in the discussions, ideological dilemmas often arose when participants found themselves having to draw on interpretative repertoires which extend from a heteronormative discourse. These kinds of interpretative repertoires included religion, nature, and compromise which contradicted and created a troubled position when used in relation to the participants' lesbian sexualities. Therefore, when the ideological dilemma and troubled position became apparent, participants had to work to repair the troubled position by justifying their use of these heteronormative interpretative repertoires.

Ce travail de recherche s’attache à analyser la visibilité des lesbiennes au cinéma américain et dans les séries télévisées et les web-séries américaines. Bien qu’ayant été globalement invisibles ou mal représentées dans le cinéma classique hollywoodien, elles apparaissent de plus en plus fréquemment sur le petit et le grand écran. Toutefois, cette visibilité est construite à partir d’un certain nombre de normes, privilégiant donc une image particulière des lesbiennes à travers notamment la figure de la lesbienne féminine. En outre, cette visibilité repose sur des stratégies de réappropriations et d’emprunts qui visent à « queeriser » les représentations existantes, et, possiblement, à créer un regard lesbien / The purpose of this work is to investigate lesbian visibility in American cinema, TV series and web series. Although lesbians have remained broadly invisible or misrepresented in classical Hollywood Cinema, they now increasingly appear on both the big screen and the small screen. However, this visibility is shaped according to a precise set of norms, thus favoring a specific image of lesbians, particularly through the figure of the feminine lesbian. Furthermore, this visibility is grounded on strategies of reappropriation and borrowings aiming to queer existing representations, and, possibly, to create a lesbian look

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There are six high school birdteachers, one of the fundamental and one birdteachers that works with a project in the school researched more than 20 years. The work is qualitative, through the method: case study, with Foucaultian theoretical contribution. The text has a non-binary writing with words and concepts created or metaphorized. Visits were carried out at the school, questionnaire, open interviews with birdteachers and coexistence with birdemployees (employees), birdstudents (students) and birdprincipal (school principal). The dissertation also had influence of the anthropologist Geertz, then, the culture is emphasized, next to its symbols expressed like means that initiated the research and that helped in the investigations. It was perceived that researching sexuality in the reality of a rural school requires sensitivity and deconstruction of a colonial thought, especially on the parameters of the urban school. We also consider that this is lived as the community manages to negotiate with its neighbors and the school. All of these birdteachers have reported that they might not know and would not be able to deal with lesbian issues in the classroom, we take into account that projections of future possibilities can modify the present and fertilize (give importance, value) a previously unadvised opposite of fertilizing). They also portrayed a scarcity of the subject at undergraduate level, continuing education, as well as knowing only one case of an alleged lesbian kiss among elementary school girls, but that there was no deepening. The discomfort was not clear when being questioned of something that never approached in the formation, nor in the classroom, however, do we perceive interest and curiosity of its parts. Above all, the perceptions were provoked when we talked about the subject and when we discourse about it, which is the speech by the non-speech too. We will hope that the interpretations allow good fertilization to minimize the real difficulties of the birds, as well as to promote resistance against lesbophobia in the rural schools, given their values and specificities on land, means of production, religion, schooling and community. / Investigamos as lesbianidades cisgêneros (o isso), por meio dos discursos dos não-discursos de oito passarofes (professores) de uma Escola do Campo do município de Francisco Beltrão/PR. São seis passarofes do ensino médio, uma do fundamental e uma passarofe que atua com um projeto na escola pesquisada a mais de 20 anos. O trabalho é qualitativo, por intermédio do método: estudo de caso, com aporte teórico foucaultiano. O texto tem uma escrita não-binária com palavras e conceitos criados ou metaforizados. Foram realizadas visitas na escola, questionário, entrevistas abertas com passarofes e convivências com es passanáres (funcionários), passarunes (alunos) e o passadire (diretor). A dissertação também teve influência do antropólogo Geertz, então, a cultura é ressaltada, junto a seus símbolos expressos como meio que iniciou a pesquisa e que ajudaram nas investigações. Foi percebido que pesquisar sexualidade na realidade de uma Escola do Campo, requer sensibilidade e desconstrução de um pensamento colonial, principalmente sobre os parâmetros da escola urbana. Consideramos também, que o isso é vivido conforme a comunidade consegue negociar junto aos seus vizinhos e a escola. Todes es passarofes relataram que possivelmente não saberiam e não conseguiriam lidar em sala de aula com o tema lesbianidades, levamos em conta que as projeções de possibilidades futuras, podem modificar o presente e adubar (dar importância, valorizar) um pensamento que antes era inadubado (oposto de adubar). Também retrataram escassez do tema na graduação, formações continuadas, assim como, souberam de apenas de um caso de um suposto beijo lesbierótico entre meninas do Ensino Fundamental, mas que não houve aprofundamento. Foi nítido o desconforto ao serem questionados de algo que nunca abordaram nem na formação, nem em sala de aula, entretanto, percebemos interesse e curiosidade de suas partes. Sobretudo, as percepções foram provocadas ao falarmos do assunto e ao discursarmos sobre o isso, que também é o discurso pelo não-discurso. Esperarnos-emos que as interpretações possibilitem boas adubações para minimizar as dificuldades reais des passarofes, assim como favorecer a resistência contra a lesbofobia nas Escolas do Campo diante de seus valores e especificidades sobre a terra, meios de produção, religião, escolarização e comunidade.

Little has been written about women's career development that specifically addresses the process of women becoming successful in their occupations. As well, the literature has neglected to include the experiences of lesbians. Yet there is reason to believe that lesbians, by virtue of their lesbian identity, may have unique work experiences that are different from heterosexual women, leading to different paths to occupational success. The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of lesbians becoming successful in their occupations by utilizing a grounded theory approach. Fifteen women (age range 35 to 69 years) who were identified as successful in their occupations (i.e., they were perceived as leaders in their fields) and who represented a variety of occupational fields, were interviewed about their experience of becoming successful in their careers. The grounded theory analysis of the data led to conceptual development, ordering, and a description of a psychological process "striving for holistic integration." The central process begins by these women "managing their lesbian identities in the workplace." The process involved women "taking risks and being out" at work along a continuum that represented women "working 'in' silence," "working quietly," and being "boldly 'out' spoken." Other salient categories in this central process included: facing ongoing fear, handling homophobia, and fighting for social change. Holistic integration involved participants integrating their lesbian and work "worlds." This integration facilitated enhanced working relationships based on honesty, and, for many participants, holistic integration became transformational as they became empowered by being open and disclosing their lesbian identities in the workplace. This process involved a dynamic, synergistic interaction between the influencing conditions (i.e., changing social times, personal background, serendipitous conditions, love and support, and a gay friendly work environment) and the unfolding of the process of striving for holistic integration. This research contributes to our understanding of lesbians' occupational success and is an important first step for further research. The women in this sample were primarily out in their respective fields and experienced benefits from doing so, despite the barriers many of them encountered along the way. The findings of this study provide guidance for future research in the area of lesbian career development and success. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

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This project is significant to social work because it addresses a topic that has not been given much attention. This particular population has not been studied much and we know little about the issues that are important to mentally ill gays and lesbians. Even in schools of social work this particular topic is frequently overlooked, and when it is discussed it is usually in relation to another topic.

Queer women's relationship to space has been under-theorized due to the difficulties in identifying particular spatial patterns that can describe their presence in urban settings. Most of the research that has focused on queer space has mentioned the difficulty of mapping queer women. The purpose of this research is to identify the ways in which the scarcity of queer women-specific space in Portland, Oregon, has affected the development of a women's community based on a queer identity, the role of intersecting identities such as race and gender identity in these communities and spaces, as well as the implications of queer women's spaces for the development of inclusive spatial frameworks. This research is based on 15 map-making interviews with queer women in the Portland area. During the interviews, participants were asked to draw a map of what they consider to be queer women's space in Portland. The results suggest that queer women occupy an array of places, but lack public queer women-specific spaces. Some of the reasons for the decline in these spaces are changing identities and the political climate, an attempt at inclusion of trans and gender non-conforming people, and racism. In order to better understand queer women's spatial patterns, the scholarship needs frameworks that are inclusive of private, cyber and temporary spaces. Given the lack of scholarship on the relationship between queer women and space, this research contributes to a better understanding of queer women's geographies in a changing political climate.