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Back to a Nostalgic Future - The Queeroslav Utopia |
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Irene Dioli. |
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Sextures, E-Journal for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics, 1 (2009) 1 , p. .
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This article can be downloaded on http://o.b5z.net/i/u/10034758/i/Dioli Queeroslav Utopia Sextures Volume 1 Issue 1 Enl.pdf |
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LGBTIQ individuals in (former) Yugoslavia have a history of being denied a space - first because of the invisibility cloak forced upon them during the socialist regime, and then because of hegemonic nationalistic ideologies enforcing the traditional hierarchic gender binary and preventing or limiting, with propaganda as well as sheer violence, the safe, natural expression of sexual diversity. Against this backdrop, a network of queer festivals in former Yugoslav countries emerged as a creative solution for local sexually diverse communities to create a space of their own, a space that some activists have called "Queeroslavija". The essay explores the translation of queer theory and activism into the former Yugoslav context and engages with this neologism as an example of queer use of time and space, coming to define Queeroslavija as a space that is transnational, nostalgic, and utopian - ultimately, a way of finding citizenship in a country that no longer, and does not yet, exists. |
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Capitalism and Global Queering : National Markets, Parallels among Sexual Cultures, and Multiple Queer Modernities |
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Peter A. Jackson. |
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GLQ : A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 15 (2009) 3 , p. 357-395.
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This essay considers the role of market economies in global queering, the transnational proliferation of new male homosexual and male-to-female transgender identities and cultures. Early accounts of global queering highlighted the culturally homogenizing effects of transnational capitalism, representing new queer sexualities beyond the West as cultural imports from the United States. But international similarities among queer cultures also emerge from parallel processes of sex-cultural change produced by national-level forms of capitalism. Case studies from Thai queer history trace market-induced cultural parallels to earlier decades of the twentieth century, before the post-Cold War intensification of globalizing processes. These studies confirm the importance of the market in global queering. They also reveal that international commonalities reflect emergent parallels among multiple queer modernities and result as much from local responses to similar economic conditions as from foreign cultural influences. The alternative narrative of queer histories beyond the West presented here decouples the spread of capitalism from cultural Westernization. It highlights moments where queer subjects have enhanced their autonomy vis-à-vis local heteronormative traditions by creative engagements that take advantage of opportunities provided by the growth of the market economy. |
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Homodok: ts.
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a Pioneer of Gay Studies and a Literary Theorist, Dies at 58 |
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William Grimes. |
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New York Times, 15-04-2009, p. .
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose critical writings on the ambiguities of sexual identity in fiction helped create the discipline known as queer studies, died in Manhattan. She was 58. |
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Homodok: full text
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Harvard to Endow Chair in Gay Studies |
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Jacques Steinberg. |
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New York Times, 03-06-2009, p. .
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Harvard University will endow a visiting professorship in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies, a position that, it believes, will be the first endowed, named chair in the subject at an American college. |
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Homodok: full text
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Hirschfeld to Hooker to Herek to High Schools : A Study of the History and Development of GLBT Empirical Research, Institutional Policies, and the Relationship Between the Two |
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Michael J. Maher ... [et al.]. |
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Journal of Homosexuality, 56 (2009) 7 (oct), p. 921-958.
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Empirical gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) research has passed through three stages. Transitions between stages have been caused by an interaction of empirical research and institutional policies. The first period is from the late 1800s up to 1972, when research focused on categorizing homosexuality as a disease, treatments for homosexuality, and then research refuting the disease model. The second period ran from 1972 to approximately 1990, when researchers began to apply the disease model not to GLBT persons, but rather to those having negative attitudes toward homosexuality (homophobia), and researchers began to look at what it was like to be a GLBT person from GLBT persons' perspectives. The third period began in the early 1990s and continues today, when researchers focus on institutions, particularly action research aimed at changing institutions. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/haworth-journals.asp ] |
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Homodok: ts.
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| Title: |
New Evidence of Genetic Factors Influencing Sexual Orientation in Men: Female Fecundity Increase in the Maternal Line |
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Francesca Iemmola, Andrea Camperio Ciani. |
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Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38 (2009) 3 , p. 393-399.
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There is a long-standing debate on the role of genetic factors influencing homosexuality because the presence of these factors contradicts the Darwinian prediction according to which natural selection should progressively eliminate the factors that reduce individual fecundity and fitness. Recently, however, Camperio Ciani, Corna, and Capiluppi (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 271, 22172221, 2004), comparing the family trees of homosexuals with heterosexuals, reported a significant increase in fecundity in the females related to the homosexual probands from the maternal line but not in those related from the paternal one. This suggested that genetic factors that are partly linked to the X-chromosome and that influence homosexual orientation in males are not selected against because they increase fecundity in female carriers, thus offering a solution to the Darwinian paradox and an explanation of why natural selection does not progressively eliminate homosexuals. Since then, new data have emerged suggesting not only an increase in maternal fecundity but also larger paternal family sizes for homosexuals. These results are partly conflicting and indicate the need for a replication on a wider sample with a larger geographic distribution. This study examined the family trees of 250 male probands, of which 152 were homosexuals. The results confirmed the study of Camperio Ciani et al. (2004). We observed a significant fecundity increase even in primiparous mothers, which was not evident in the previous study. No evidence of increased paternal fecundity was found; thus, our data confirmed a sexually antagonistic inheritance partly linked to the X-chromosome that promotes fecundity in females and a homosexual sexual orientation in males. |
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| Title: |
Que(e)rying Methodology: Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives |
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Guest Editors: Róisín Ryan-Flood, Alison Rooke. |
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Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13 (2009) 2 (april-june), p. 115-228.
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Contents: - Que(e)rying Methodology: Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives: An Introduction / Róisín Ryan-Flood; Alison Rooke. - Pages 115-121. - The Re-Making of Sexual Kinds: Queer Subjects and the Limits of Representation / Lisa Blackman. - Pages 122-135. - The Lady Vanishes: On Never Knowing, Quite, Who Is a Lesbian / Kath Weston. - Pages 136-148. - Queer in the Field: On Emotions, Temporality, and Performativity in Ethnography / Alison Rooke. - Pages 149-160. - Researching Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Relationships : A Feminist Epistemological Approach to Survey Development / Marianne Hester; Catherine Donovan. - Pages 161-173. - Producing Cosmopolitan Sexual Citizens on The L Word / Kellie Burns; Cristyn Davies. Pages 174 -188. - Complexities and Complications: Intersections of Class and Sexuality / Yvette Taylor. - Pages 189-203. - Researching 'Race' in Lesbian Space: A Critical Reflection / Nina Held. - Pages 204-215. - Queering Representation: Ethics and Visibility in Research / Róisín Ryan-Flood. - Pages 216-228. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/haworth-journals.asp ] |
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| Title: |
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity After Prenatal Exposure to the Dutch Famine |
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Susanne R. de Rooij ... [et al.]. |
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Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38 (2009) 3 , p. 411-416.
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Sexual differentiation of the human brain has been suggested to take place through exposure to sex steroids during intrauterine development. Animal experiments have shown that interference in this process by underfeeding of the mother can result in feminization of the male offspring. We explored the possible effects of prenatal exposure to famine on sexual orientation and gender identity in humans. We used the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid to assess sexual orientation and also assessed gender identity in a group of 380 men and 472 women who were born as term singletons around the time of the 1944-1945 Dutch famine. Prenatal exposure to famine did not affect sexual orientation in men or in women. Three people indicated having some gender identity problems: one woman born before the famine and one man and woman exposed to famine in late gestation. In men, a later birth order was associated with a non-exclusively heterosexual identification. In conclusion, we found no evidence for a significant association between exposure to famine in utero and altered sexual orientation and gender identity. The small sample size of participants with non-exclusively heterosexual identification (possibly due to underreporting of homosexuality) may have reduced our power to detect any differences. |
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| Title: |
Te divers voor Darwin |
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Elke Jacobs. |
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Gay Krant, (2009) 620 (okt/nov), p. 20-21.
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Steeds vaker observeren wetenschappers homoseksueel gedrag bij dieren. Op basis van twee bronnen 'Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex' en 'J. Roughgarden, Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, gender and Sexuality in Nature and People' probeert de schrijver te ontdekken of daar ruimte voor is binnen het Darwinisme. |
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