Relevant / Nieuwe Aanwinsten: Identities, psyche
| Title: | Gay identities and the culture of class | |
| Author | Brian Heaphy. | |
| Impressum | Sexualities, 14 (2011) 1 (feb), p. 42-62. | |
| Summary | Material queer analyses argue the urgent need to reincorporate class to comprehend sexual (re)formations in advanced capitalism, and some theorists propose a revitalized historical materialism as a framework for doing this. In contrast, this article illuminates the significance of class for late modern sexualities by taking a 'cultural' approach to the issue. By analysing gay men's personal accounts of class (dis-)identification that were told in interviews in Britain, the article elucidates the ways in which class and sexuality were articulated as intertwined, and how class and gay identities were constructed relationally through each other. Specifically, it generates insights into the performativities of classed gay identities; the differential value attached to working- and middle-class identities; and how narratives of (dis)identification often articulate gay and working class identities as relational 'Others'. Contrary to some theoretical and popular notions of gay identities as classless, my analysis shows that class identities can be centrally important to gay ones. While the relationship between gay classed identities and socio-economic positioning is not straightforward, such identities illuminate how cultural, social and economic (dis-)incentives promote distancing from working-class forms of existence and strong attachments to middle-class ones and to the idea of gay class transcendence. Such distancing and attachments are also features of sexualities theory and research that deny the significance of class. | |
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| Title: | Les corps ouverts # Offene Herzen | |
| Author | regie Sébastien Lifschitz | |
| Impressum | : . (1997) - 45 min.kl. | |
| Annotation | dvd | |
| Summary | Korte film, van de maker van Presque Rien en Wild Side, over de scholier Remi en zijn zoektocht in de wereld van seks en liefde. | |
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Homodok: 3276
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| Title: | Mannen zonder lichaam | |
| Author | Niels Vonberg. | |
| Impressum | Lover, 38 (2011) 1 (voorjaar), p. 18-19. | |
| Summary | Het debat over vrouwelijkheid en mannelijkheid was bijna altijd een vrouwenzaak. Met opiniemakers en auteurs als Arie Boomsma, Stephan Sanders en Dylan van Rijsbergen lijkt daar verandering in te zijn gekomen. Stuk voor stuk mannen die hun mannelijkheid niet meer als vanzelfsprekend zien. Toch mist er iets in dit denken over man-zijn in de eenentwintigste eeuw, stelt Niels Vonberg, en wel het besef dat er aan het mannelijke lichaam betekenissen kleven. | |
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| Title: | Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She | |
| Author | regie Antony Thomas | |
| Impressum | : . (2005) - 75 min.kl. | |
| Annotation | dvd | |
| Summary | De documentaire Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She onderzoekt het begrip gender, in de witte westerse wereld een streng binair fenomeen. Maar er blijken meer opties te zijn dan mannelijk of vrouwelijk. Van hersenonderzoekers (Louis Gooren) naar antropologen (Gloria Wekker), van lady boys in Thailand, hijra's in India, mati's in Suriname naar homoseksualiteit in het dierenrijk. Seksuele en genderidentiteiten blijken een breed en kleurrijk spectrum en deze documentaire is een stevige pleitbezorger voor diversiteit. | |
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| Title: | Negotiating Sexual Identity : A Discourse Analysis of Women's Alternative Narratives on Sexual Orientation | |
| Author | Tamar Doorduin. | |
| Impressum | [S.l. : s.n.]. 2010 - 147 bl. | |
| Annotation | Proefschrift Universiteit Utrecht. - Bibliogr.: bl. 137-144. | |
| Summary | In this thesis the author aimed at exhibiting a more complex thinking about sexual orientation than common thinking usually allows, as well as at showing its complex relations to mechanisms of power and inclusion. She did this by answering three interlocking questions. First of all she aimed at mapping the dominant discourse on sexual orientation by analyzing the narratives of relative outsiders to this discourse. Secondly, she looked at the ways these outsiders negotiated within the terms of the current discursive structure in order to articulate their own alternative identity positions. Finally, she wondered how both the dominant discourse on sexual orientation and the alternative discourses related to other intersecting discourses of sexuality, gender, 'race'/ethnicity and transgender identity. The participants in this study were women who felt their sexual identity or orientation to be somehow unintelligible within the dominant discourse on sexuality. Interviewing subjects with a relative outsider status in relation to this dominant discourse enabled the author to sketch a picture of what this dominant discourse approximately looks like. The identity negotiations of the participants in this study provide information about what is currently possible and thinkable within the discursive structure around sexuality, gender and 'race'/ethnicity. From the internet: In this thesis, narratives on sexual orientation and identity are analyzed of women who feel that it is difficult to say something meaningful about their sexuality within the context of the dominant discourse on sexual orientation. These narratives, which came into being through in-depth interviews with Dutch women, show how women are expected to sexually identify in accordance to the gender of their object choice; how different aspects of being "orientated" to someone are expected to converge; and how sexuality is imagined as a binary identity. In this thesis it is analyzed how women whose sense of self does not adhere to these assumptions "negotiate" their identity position within the available discourses in the area of gender and sexuality, in intersection with other social-cultural categories. | |
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Homodok: cat. (doord-t/neg) # digitale bibliotheek grijs
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| Title: | Queer Theory and Psychology | |
| Author | guest ed. Peter Hegarty. | |
| Impressum | Psychology and Sexuality, 2 (2011) 1 , p. 1-98. | |
| Summary | Contents: - Viewing critical psychology through the lens of queer / Lisa Downing, Robert Gillett. - p. 4-15. - Speculating on sexual subjectivity: on the application and misapplication of postmodern discourse on the psychology of sexuality / Aaron Balick. - p. 16-28. - Queering psychoanalysis: power, self and identity in psychoanalytic therapy with sexual minority clients Ian Hodges. - p. 29-44. - Sexuality, normality and intelligence. What is queer theory up against? / Peter Hegarty. - p. 45-57. - The discursive and clinical production of trans youth: gender variant youth who seek puberty suppression / Katrina Roen. - 58-68. - Questioning heteronormativity: using queer theory to inform research and practice within public mental health services / David Semp. - p. 69-86. - Queering evidence-based practice / Damien W. Riggs. - p. 87-98. [ Copies are available at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g932357383 ] | |
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| Title: | The response of mental health professionals to clients seeking help to change or redirect same-sex sexual orientation | |
| Author | Annie Bartlett, Glenn Smith, Michael King. | |
| Impressum | BMC Psychiatry, 9 (2009) 11 , p. 1-8. | |
| Summary | Background: we know very little about mental health practitioners' views on treatments to change sexual orientation. Our aim was to survey a representative sample of professional members of the main United Kingdom psychotherapy and psychiatric organisations about their views and practices concerning such treatments. Methods: We sent postal questions to mental health professionals who were members of British Psychological Society, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Participants were asked to give their views about treatments to change homosexual desires and describe up to five patients each, whom they has treated in this way. Results: Of 1848 practitioners contacted, 1406 questionnaires were returned and 1328 could be analysed. Although only 55 (4%) of therapists reported that they would attempt to change a client's sexual orientation if one consulted asking for such therapy, 222 (17%) reported having assisted at least one client/patient to reduce or change his or her homosexual or lesbian feelings. 413 patients were described by these 222 therapists: 213 (52%) were seen in private practice and 117 (28%) were not followed up beyond the period of treatment. Counselling was the commonest (66%) treatment offered and there was no sign of a decline in treatments in recent years. 159 (72%) of the 222 therapists who had provided such treatment considered that a service should be available for people who want to change their sexual orientation. Client/patient distress and client/patient autonomy were seen as reasons for intervention; therapists paid attention to religious, cultural and moral values causing internal conflict. Conclusion: A significant minority of mental health professionals are attempting to help lesbian, gay and bisexual clients to become heterosexual. Given lack of evidence for the efficacy of such treatments, this is likely to be unwise or even harmful. | |
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| Title: | When I Knew | |
| Author | regie Fenton Bailey en Randy Barbato | |
| Impressum | : . (2007) - 35 min.kl. | |
| Annotation | dvd | |
| Summary | In When I Knew vertellen Amerikaanse mannen en vrouwen van verschillende leeftijden en achtergronden over het moment in hun leven dat ze zich realiseerden 'ik ben homo/lesbisch'. | |
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