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Description:: Theoretical and empirical inquiries into queer geographies have focused primarily on how white gay subjects navigate urban landscapes. Consequently, there has been little empirical work that examines (1) queer placemaking within Black and brown urban spaces; (2) placemaking among queer women of color; and (3) the relationship and interplay between...
Keyword:: queer studies, digital ethnography, black queer studies, urban ethnography, sexuality, and black feminism
Subject:: Sociology and Gender studies
Creator:: Adams-Santos, Dominique
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15633 and etdadmin_upload_831238

Description:: Although research has shown LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in counts of homeless youth, scholars have yet to investigate whether this trend exists among adults experiencing homelessness. This dissertation uses an organizational analysis of four Chicago homeless centers that cater to young adults to argue that most LGBTQ+ youth are not...
Keyword:: homelessness, governance, poverty, sexuality, young adults, and organizations
Subject:: Sociology, LGBTQ studies, and Public policy
Creator:: Lovell, Erik Stephen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_838186 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15673

Description:: œRuling Sexuality: Law, Expertise, and the Making of Sexual Knowledge, brings together approaches from the sociologies of science, law, and sexualities to examine how the institutions of law and science jointly render sexual subjects legible to state institutions by measuring and categorizing sexualities. Through the comparative study of asylum claims...
Keyword:: science, classification, knowledge, law, and sexuality
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Stefan Vogler
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/30/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 1/1/2018
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Drawing on over 400 legal decisions and other documentary materials, 40 semi-structured interviews with legal and scientific actors, and hundreds of hours of multi-sited ethnographic observation, I offer a fine-grained analysis of how expert evaluative practices become institutionalized in legal settings and result in divergent understandings of sexuality within the...
Keyword:: science, classification, knowledge, law, and sexuality
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Stefan Vogler
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/23/2019
Date Modified:: 06/23/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Using interviews and friendship mapping with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and ally (LGBTQ+) community members as well as ethnographic observations, this dissertation analyzes post-gay LGBTQ community in River City, a small, Midwestern city. My findings reveal a formation I call ambivalent community: even as participants express a desire for...
Keyword:: gender, community, rural sociology, sexuality, and friendship
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Clare Marie Frostie
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/16/2018
Date Modified:: 10/16/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: "I Love You": Coercion and Consent in Sexual Relations in Postapartheid South Africa Judith L. Singleton This dissertation is an ethnographic study which explores and documents several discourses and practices surrounding sexual coercion and consent in the black South African township of Mpophomeni. I trace and examine discourses and practices...
Keyword:: sexual violence, gender, law, South Africa, sexuality, and violence
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Judith Lynn Singleton
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/01/2018
Date Modified:: 10/01/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation project explores the relationship between the architectures of black masculinity in America and a specific performance of discreet sexual identity. Through critical ethnographic and discursive exploration, I look closely at a group of black men who describe themselves as being on the "down low" (DL). These men, who...
Keyword:: sexuality
Subject:: Performance Studies
Creator:: Jeffrey Quinn Mccune
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/26/2018
Date Modified:: 07/26/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-16
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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