Sexual Identity

Sexual identity issues for male survivors of childhood sexual abuse: A qualitative study

by Leslie Tutty

Sexual Difference, Gender and Sexuality in Social Practice: the Possibilities and Limits of Materialist Feminism

by Ľubica Kobová

Submitted to Central European University, Department of Gender Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Gender Studies.
Supervisor: Erzsébet Barát
Second reader: Veronica Vasterling
Budapest, Hungary, 2004

The concept of the ‘material’ gained wide currency in feminist theorizing recently. Its recuperations draw on... more The concept of the ‘material’ gained wide currency in feminist theorizing recently. Its recuperations draw on different theoretical traditions and thus give rise to the competing views of the cultural materialism of the post-structuralist paradigm and Marxist historical materialism. The new conceptions of materialization in gender and sexuality paradigm (Judith Butler) and materialist theory of becoming in the sexual difference paradigm (Rosi Braidotti) are introduced as contradictory elaborations of the very basic concepts of feminist theory—sex, gender, sexuality and sexual difference. Nonetheless, their reworking of materialism takes place either in the resignificatory discursive practices or the symbolization of matter and thus primarily does refrain from the appropriate theorization of the economic. The materialist feminism of Rosemary Hennessy insists on the need of systemic analysis that accounts of uneven and contradictory developments in late capitalism and its share in people’s lives. The satisfaction of the human needs is supplanted by the promise of the pleasure taking shape of commodity. Hennessy comprehends non-heteronormative sexual identities as reified and commodified, too, and argues for historicization of sexual identities in the framework of the developments of capitalism. The thesis juxtaposes the three mentioned approaches to the material in order to argue for Hennessy’s rearticulation of the historical-materialist tradition.

Bareed Mista3jil: Negotiating Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Lebanon by Amy Levin

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on Feminism and Religion project

It’s not often (enough) that I (have the time to) come across non-academic books that articulate and reflect some of... more It’s not often (enough) that I (have the time to) come across non-academic books that articulate and reflect some of the most complex intersections between religion, gender, and sexuality. Those that do are commonly produced in the Western hemisphere, often representing the voices of Euro-American cultures and religious traditions. That is why I want to give voice to Bareed Mista3jil, a book, or collection of “41 true (and personal) stories from lesbians, bisexuals, queer and questioning women, and transgender persons from all over Lebanon.” Bareed Mista3jil was published in 2009 by the organization Meem, a community of lesbian, bisexual, queer women and transgender persons (including male-to-female and female-to-male) in addition to women questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity in Lebanon. The purpose of the book is to give voice to those in Lebanon with non-conforming sexualities and identities in order to give hope to this under-represented, often silenced population. Here is a description from Meem on the origin of the book:

Il matrimonio e la famiglia omosessuale in due recenti sentenze. Prime note in forma di soliloquio

by Alexander Schuster

Pubbl. in 'Forum Quaderni costituzionali', Paper n. 317, 30 aprile 2012, www.forumquadernicostituzionali.it

A comment in Italian to the ECtHR judgment Gas et Dubois v. France and to the Italian Supreme Court judgment no.... more A comment in Italian to the ECtHR judgment Gas et Dubois v. France and to the Italian Supreme Court judgment no. 4148/2012 on the (non) recognition of a Dutch same-gender marriage involving two Italian citizens. Both decisions were delivered on 15 March 2012.

Assessing Developmental Trajectories of Sexual Minority Youth: Discrepant Findings from a Life History Calendar and a Self-Administered Survey

by Colleen Fisher

Transliberación de la corporalidad: Transitando la transexualidad desde la bioética

by Jorge Alberto Álvarez-Díaz

Sexual Orientation and Occupation: Gay Men and Women's Lived Experiences of Occupational Participation

by Rebecca Twinley

Fuzzy-edged Phenomena: (Dis)identity and desire in Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

by Andy Holloway

Published in Ignite Undergraduate Journal vol. 3 (2011).

Changing Aesthetics sexual identity through examples of contemporary Turkish art”

by Leyla Ersen

Sexual Identities and the Erotic within the examples of Contemporary Turkish and Iranian art”

by Leyla Ersen

Review of The Beggar’s Benison: Sex Clubs of Enlightenment Scotland and their Rituals, by David Stevenson.

by Corey E. Andrews

Eighteenth-Century Scotland 16 (2002): 42-43.

Jewish gay men's accounts of negotiating cultural, religious, and sexual identity: A qualitative study

by Adrian Coyle

Co-authored with Deborah Rafalin. Published in 2000 in the Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 12(4), 21-48. A manuscript version of this article can be downloaded from http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1704/1/fulltext.pdf

Research on the construction of lesbian and gay identity has represented this process as carrying considerable... more Research on the construction of lesbian and gay identity has represented this process as carrying considerable potential for intrapsychic and interpersonal stress and conflict. This process may be rendered even more psychologically challenging for those whose identities feature salient components that are not easily reconciled with a lesbian or gay identity. An example of this is the simultaneous holding of Jewish and gay identities. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study of 21 Jewish gay men in Britain. Participants were interviewed about the development of their gay identity, the relationship between their gay identity and their Jewish identity, the psychological and social implications of holding these identities, and strategies for managing any difficulties associated with this. Data were subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis. All but one of the men reported experiences of identity conflict, arising mainly from the perceived incompatibility of Jewish and gay identities. This was said to have impacted negatively upon their psychological well-being. Those who had received negative reactions to the disclosure of sexual identity within Jewish contexts often attributed this to an anti-gay stance within Judaism and a concern with ensuring the continuation of the Jewish people. Various strategies were said to have been used to manage identity threat, including compartmentalizing Jewish and gay identity and revising the content or salience of Jewish identity. Recommendations are offered for psychological interventions which could help Jewish gay men manage identity conflict.

Chelsea: The Death of a Gay Neighborhood, Murdered by Neo-Hetero-Homophobes

by Michael Carosone

Co-authored with Joseph LoGiudice. Re-published in Gay City News (New York City, November 8, 2011).

Sexual Identity: Affirmative Practice with Lesbian and Gay Clients

by Martin Milton

Milton, M. and Coyle, A. (2003) Sexual Identity: Affirmative Practice with Lesbian and Gay Clients, in R.Woolfe, S. Strawbridge and W. Dryden (Eds) Handbook of Counselling Psychology (2nd edition), London: Sage

Being Sexual: Existential Contributions to Psychotherapy with Gay Male Clients

by Martin Milton

Milton, M. (2007) Being Sexual: Existential Contributions to Psychotherapy with Gay Male Clients,  in E. Peel, V. Clarke and J. Drescher (Eds) British Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies: Theory, Research and Practice, The Haworth Medical Press, Binghampton, NY

Living well and sexual self-determination: Expanding human rights discourse about sex and sexuality

by Michael Weinman

First Things First: Freud and the question of primacy in gendered sexuality

by renee c. hoogland

The production of hospitable space: Commercial propositions and consumer co-creation in a bar operation

by Peter Lugosi

This is the accepted post-review version, published in Space and Culture 2009 Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 396-411. DOI:10.1177/1206331209348083

This paper examines the processes through which a commercial bar is transformed into a hospitable space. Drawing on a... more This paper examines the processes through which a commercial bar is transformed into a hospitable space. Drawing on a study of a venue patronized by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgender consumers, it considers how social and commercial forms of hospitality are mobilized. The paper argues that hospitable space has an ideological, normative and situational dimension. More specifically, it suggests the bar’s operation is tied to a set of ideological conceptions, which become the potential basis of association and disassociation among consumers. It examines the forces and processes that shape who participates in the production and consumption of hospitality and how. Finally, it considers the situational, emergent nature of hospitality and the discontinuous production of hospitable space. Rather than focusing exclusively on host-guest or provider-customer relations, which dominates existing work on hospitality, the paper examines how consumers’ perceptions, actions and interactions shape the production of hospitality. By doing so the paper offers an alternative approach to understanding queer spaces, bar operation as well as hospitality.

Psychology and the politics of same-sex desire in the United States: An analysis of three cases.

by Phillip L Hammack

Narrative, identity, and the politics of exclusion: Social change and the gay and lesbian life course

by Phillip L Hammack