scholarly journals Hardcore Style, Queer Heteroeroticism, and After Dark

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-147
Author(s):  
Ryan Powell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Performance Artists ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender

During the early to mid-1970s, when feature-length hardcore films became a popular cultural phenomenon in the United States, hardcore came to designate more than just a genre or an industry—it became a ubiquitous mode of performance, an ethos, and a style. This article explores how hardcore as a style was taken up by the popular gay-marketed entertainment magazine After Dark. Through a close descriptive analysis of three photo spreads from 1975–76, it illuminates how female, gay male, and otherwise non-straight-identifying performers participated in a hardcore stylistic that, paradoxically, worked to shape queer elaborations of heteroeroticism. Within these vital images of singers, dancers, models, and performance artists, created at the height of hardcore's newfound cultural influence, performances of female-male coupling and group-centered socio-sexual activity both worked with and moved to dissolve normative heterosexist configurations of sex and gender.

Embodied Memory and Alternative Futures

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-162
Author(s):  
Ruby Clementine Kernkamp
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Performance Artists ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Embodied Memory

Through the Peace Ride, the Compton Cowboys, as activists and performance artists within the Black Lives Matter movement, materialized the long legacy of Black men and women riders in the United States. These protest bodies on horseback imagine alternative futures for Black communities through embodied memory and a rewriting of the archive.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Rae Flood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Criminal Jurisprudence ◽  
Rape Trials ◽  
And Gender

This introductory chapter examines the scope of sexual violence, rape trials, and criminal jurisprudence in an Anglo context through the familiar adage that rape is “an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended against by the party accused, tho [sic] never so innocent.” This statement, attributed to seventeenth-century British jurist Matthew Hale, speaks to the prevailing conceptions of rape in the United States today, at the same time that it captures myriad assumptions about sex and gender relations in modern society. This chapter is thus a brief exploration of what it means to be victimized or accused of rape, albeit updated to include more recent social justice concerns such as racism and feminism.

The American Experience during World War II

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. C. Adams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Work Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
World War ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Armed Services

On the eve of World War II many Americans were reluctant to see the United States embark on overseas involvements. Yet the Japanese attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, seemingly united the nation in determination to achieve total victory in Asia and Europe. Underutilized industrial plants expanded to full capacity producing war materials for the United States and its allies. Unemployment was sucked up by the armed services and war work. Many Americans’ standard of living improved, and the United States became the wealthiest nation in world history. Over time, this proud record became magnified into the “Good War” myth that has distorted America’s very real achievement. As the era of total victories receded and the United States went from leading creditor to debtor nation, the 1940s appeared as a golden age when everything worked better, people were united, and the United States saved the world for democracy (an exaggeration that ignored the huge contributions of America’s allies, including the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and China). In fact, during World War II the United States experienced marked class, sex and gender, and racial tensions. Groups such as gays made some social progress, but the poor, especially many African Americans, were left behind. After being welcomed into the work force, women were pressured to go home when veterans returned looking for jobs in late 1945–1946, losing many of the gains they had made during the conflict. Wartime prosperity stunted the development of a welfare state; universal medical care and social security were cast as unnecessary. Combat had been a horrific experience, leaving many casualties with major physical or emotional wounds that took years to heal. Like all major global events, World War II was complex and nuanced, and it requires careful interpretation.

Leisure-tourism connection behaviors by life stage and gender

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seohee Chang ◽  
Gi Eun Chung
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Leisure Involvement ◽  
And Gender

Purpose Individuals’ daily leisure activities undertaken close to home often appear in tourism contexts when individuals are away from home. Previous studies have suggested that such leisure-tourism connection behaviors are enhanced by leisure involvement and leisure habits. However, few studies have examined if such a connection may have variations by life stage and gender. Therefore, this study aims to examine the roles of life stage and gender in consistency between leisure and tourism, in consideration of involvement and habit. The study samples were university graduates (n = 681) who had graduated from a university in the United States and were currently working and university students (n = 706) who were enrolled and taking classes at a university in the United States. Design/methodology/approach Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, exploratory factor analysis, t-test, two-way ANOVA and multiple regression analysis. Findings The findings revealed differences in the effects of leisure involvement and habit factors on the leisure-tourism connection behaviors by life stage and gender. More details are presented in this paper. Originality/value This study is the first study to examine the leisure-tourism connection behaviors in consideration of life stage and gender.

Abstract WP328: Seizure in Patients With Co-morbid Stroke in the United States: Frequency and Characteristics

Stroke ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oladimeji Akinboro ◽  
Odunayo Olorunfemi ◽  
Stephen Jesmajian ◽  
Bruce Ovbiagele
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Diagnosis Codes ◽  
Epilepsy In The Elderly ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
And Gender

Background: The commonest cause of epilepsy in the elderly is symptomatic vascular brain injury. As the population ages, the prevalence of stroke is projected to rise, and so conceivably the incidence of seizures will increase as well. However, the extent to which individuals presenting with a seizure have a co-morbid diagnosis of stroke and precisely how this relationship varies by age, gender, and race is unclear. Objective: To assess the relation of admission for an epileptic event with a co-morbid diagnosis of stroke. Methods: Using the National Inpatient Sample, a nationally representative data set of US hospital admissions, we assessed patients aged 18 years or older hospitalized with seizures who had a comorbid diagnosis of stroke from 2004-2009. We define seizure or epilepsy hospitalizations using primary ICD-9 discharge diagnosis codes 345.0-345.5, 345.7-345.9, and 780.39. Secondary discharge codes for stroke used were 433-437.10, 437.3, and 437.5-438. The sample was stratified into age-categories (75 years), and racial categories. Frequencies and descriptive analysis of comorbidities and confounders were utilized. A logistic regression model was used to further explore the relationship. All analysis were survey-weighted. Results: During the study period, 253,778 adults (0.64%) of the sample were hospitalized for seizures. On survey-weighted analysis, 11.1% of those hospitalized for seizures had a co-morbid diagnosis of stroke. Among patients with seizures and co-morbid stroke, 23.6% were aged 75 years, 51.6% were women, and 60.7% were of White race. Greater odds of hospitalization for seizures were seen with those with co-morbid stroke vs. no stroke (OR 3.68; 95% CI 3.49-3.89, p<0.01), and blacks (OR 1.45; 95% CI 1.38, 1.52), relative to whites. Females were less likely to be hospitalized for seizure than males (OR 0.63; 95% CI 0.62, 0.65) significant interaction between comorbid stroke, and gender (p<0.01 ). Conclusions: One out of eleven patients hospitalized with seizures in the United States has a co-morbid diagnosis of stroke. Patients with co-morbid stroke are almost 4 times more likely to hospitalized with seizures than those without known stroke, with gender modifying this relationship.

scholarly journals Gendered Perceptions of Odd and Even Numbers: An Implicit Association Study From Arabic Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy R. Jordan ◽  
Hajar Aman Key Yekani ◽  
Mercedes Sheen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Agency And Communion ◽  
And Gender

Previous studies conducted in the United States indicate that people associate numbers with gender, such that odd numbers are more likely to be considered male and even numbers considered female. It has been argued that this number gendering phenomenon is acquired through social learning and conditioning, and that male-odd/female-even associations reflect a general, cross-cultural human consensus on gender roles relating to agency and communion. However, the incidence and pattern of number gendering in cultures outside the United States remains to be established. Against this background, the purpose of this study was to determine whether people from a culture and country very different from the United States (specifically, native Arabic citizens living in the Arabic culture of the United Arab Emirates) also associate numbers with gender, and, if they do, whether the pattern of these associations is the male-odd/female-even associations previously observed. To investigate this issue, we adopted the Implicit Association Test used frequently in previous research, where associations between numbers (odd and even) and gender (male and female faces) were examined using male and female Arabic participants native to, and resident in, the United Arab Emirates. The findings indicated that the association of numbers with gender does occur in Arabic culture. But while Arabic females associated odd numbers with male faces and even numbers with female faces (the pattern of previous findings in the United States), Arabic males showed the reversed pattern of gender associations, associating even numbers with male faces and odd numbers with female faces. These findings support the view that number gendering is indeed a cross-cultural phenomenon and show that the phenomenon occurs across very different countries and cultures. But the findings also suggest that the pattern with which numbers are associated with gender is not universal and, instead, reflects culture-specific views on gender roles which may change across cultures and gender. Further implications for understanding the association of numbers with gender across human societies are discussed.

scholarly journals Subjective cognitive decline higher among sexual and gender minorities in the United States, 2015–2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason D. Flatt ◽  
Ethan C. Cicero ◽  
Nickolas H. Lambrou ◽  
Whitney Wharton ◽  
Joel G. Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Subjective Cognitive Decline ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Balancing race, gender, and responsibility: Conversations with four black women in educational leadership in the United States of America

2021 ◽  
pp. 174114322199183
Author(s):  
Natasha N Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Educational Leadership ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

This article focuses on equitable leadership and its intersection with related yet distinct concepts salient to social justice pertinent to women and minorities in educational leadership. This piece is rooted and framed within the context of the United States of America, and the major concepts include identity, equity, and intersectionality—specific to the race-gender dyad—manifested within the realm of educational leadership. The objective is to examine theory and research in this area and to discuss the role they played in this study of the cultures of four Black women, all senior-level leaders within the realm of K-20 education in the United States. This work employed the tenets of hermeneutic phenomenology, focusing on the intersecting factors—race and gender, specifically—that impact these women’s ability and capability to perform within the educational sector. The utilization of in-depth, timed, semi-structured interviews allowed participants to reflect upon their experiences and perceptions as Black women who have navigated and continue to successfully navigate the highest levels of the educational leadership sphere. Contributors’ recounted stories of navigation within spaces in which they are underrepresented revealed the need for more research specific to the intricacies of Black women’s leadership journeys in the context of the United States.

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