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Structural connections in the brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation

Scientific Reports, 2017
Both transgenderism and homosexuality are facets of human biology, believed to derive from different sexual differentiation of the brain. The two phenomena are, however, fundamentally unalike, despite an increased prevalence of homosexuality among ...
Sarah M. Burke, Amir H. Manzouri, Ivanka Savic   +2 more
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Hiding Behind the Closet Door: Representations of the Homosexual Experience in A Streetcar Named Desire [PDF]

, 2018
Themes related to homosexuality and the homosexual experience are interwoven in many layers throughout Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. This research paper analyzes contemporary commentary on homosexuality from the 1940s and ‘50s, Blanche’s ...
Piccirillo, Antonia
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Exploring the relationship between homosexuality and sport among the teammates of a small, Midwestern Catholic college soccer team. [PDF]

, 2011
Despite decreasing homophobia, openly gay male athletes are still rare in organized, competitive teamsports. In this action research, we explore two aspects of homosexuality and sport: (1) the effect of a gay male soccer player coming out to his ...
Adi Adams, Anderson E., Anderson E., Anderson E., Barnett S., Bryant M., Burstyn V., Burton-Nelson M., Coghlan D., Connell R. W., Connell R. W., Davies C. A., Eric Anderson, Greenwood D. J., Griffin P., Harris J., Ibson J., Kimmel M. S., McCormack M., McNiff J., Messner M. A., Messner M. A., Nylund D., Oberhuber F., Pharr S., Plummer D., Price M., Pronger B., Reason P., Sabo D., Southall R. M., Spradley J. P., Weeks J., Whitson D., Wolf Wendel L.   +34 more
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

Istantanee di trasposizioni cinematografiche nel panorama queer del Giappone contemporaneo

Cinergie, 2015
This article aims at analyzing the ways in which contemporary Japanese cinema has represented gay subjectivities and cultures over the last twenty years.
Lorenzo Mazzoni
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

An Intervention for Clinical Medical Students on LGBTI Health

MedEdPORTAL, 2013
Introduction Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals face well-documented structural, financial, personal, and cultural barriers when accessing and receiving health care services.
William Sullivan, Kristen Eckstrand, Charles Rush, Klint Peebles, Kimberly Lomis, Amy Fleming   +5 more
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
wiley   +1 more source

Pandemic Im/mobilities, reproductive injustices, and assisted reproductive technology use among Taiwanese LGBTQ parents

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how mobility restrictions imposed by governments during the COVID‐19 pandemic intensified reproductive and mobility injustices. It traces shifting configurations of privilege and inequality within marginalized groups whose reproductive desires remain legally and socially unrecognized.
Sara L. Friedman
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking of Stigma and the Silence of Shame: Young Men and Sexual Victimization [PDF]

, 2016
This study addresses male sexual victimization as that which is both invisible and incomprehensible. Forensic interviews with young men following reports of suspected sexual assault reveal patterns of heteronormative scripts appropriated to make sense of
Hlavka, Heather
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