A Meditation on Half of a Lesbian Life

2018 ◽  
pp. 194-206
Author(s):  
Julie R. Enszer
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Past ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Recent Developments

This lyrical meditation lingers on the possibilities and perils of lesbian as a lived, embodied experience. The essay tracks the author’s intellectual engagements with lesbian poetry and literature through undergraduate education, a professional career in the nonprofit sector, and a return to graduate school. With particular attention to generational issues and the challenges of looking backward and writing history, the essay asks multiple questions and offers some tentative answers about career trajectories. Finally the author reflects on recent developments in recognition of same-sex marriage and its implications for teaching and scholarship. By looking at the past the chapter envision boldly a future: unknown, emergent, possible, perilous.

scholarly journals Path of Survivors: An Analysis of Boy Erased and The Miseducation of Cameron Post

K ta Kita ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-278
Author(s):  
Trisha Zoe Tedjakarna
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Conversion Therapy ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Past

This study aims to analyse the impacts of conversion therapy and the self-transformation of the main characters in Boy Erased and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which are two films published post-legalisation of same-sex marriage in America. Both main characters showed signs of self-loathing, decreased authenticity, and feeling anger and disappointment due to conversion therapy. The two characters are first portrayed as victims and survivor of conversion therapy at the end of the film. Jared was shown as a silent victim turned outspoken survivor. Cameron was shown as a rebellious victim and survivor. Both films showed the growth from victims into survivors, which gave a strong, capable and hopeful image of homosexuals and is a contrast from some representation of homosexuals of the past. Despite the similarity in ending up as survivors, the two characters picked different fights. Keywords: Homosexual, Film, Victim, Survivor, Conversion therapy.

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s Universal Performance of French Citizenship and Muslim Brotherhood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis M. Provencher
Keyword(s):  
Cape Town ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Past

In this chapter, I present the life and work of Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, who is the founder of three non-profit associations over the past several years: Les Enfants du Sida (2006), Homosexuels musulmans de France (HM2F) (2010), and Musulman-es Progressistes de France (2012). He is also the author of Révoltes extraordinaires: un enfant du sida autour du monde (2011) and Le Coran et La Chair (2012), and co-author of Queer Muslim Marriage (2013). During the last few years, the French media have covered his same-sex marriage in Cape Town to husband Qiyaam Jantjies-Zahed in 2011, the publication of his book, Le Coran et La Chair in 2012, as well as and his creation of La Mosquée inclusive de l’Unicité, the first “gay friendly” or inclusive mosque in Paris, in 2012.

1. American federalism in comparative perspective

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Mark J. Rozell ◽  
Clyde Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Voting Rights ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
American Constitution ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Linguistic Groups ◽  
American Federalism

“American federalism in comparative perspective” outlines how, in 1787, a new American constitution was drafted which replaced the confederation with a federal form of government. This chapter also explains how several key contemporary issues—such as same-sex marriage, abortion, gun control, and voting rights—illustrate the challenges posed by federalism. Cleavages between and among the subnational units often pose significant challenges for maintaining stable federal systems. For example, in many countries regional governments reflect different ethnic or linguistic groups, and the regions or states may have been independent countries in the past. The source and sharing of revenues also differ significantly in federal systems.

Who's the Bigot?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda C. McClain
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Interracial Marriage ◽  
Distinct Type ◽  
The United States ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Value ◽  
Forward Looking

Charges, denials, and countercharges of bigotry are increasingly frequent in the United States. Bigotry is a fraught and contested term, evident from the rejoinder that calling out bigotry is political correctness. That is so even though renouncing—and denouncing—bigotry seems to be a shared political value with a long history. Identifying, responding to, and preventing bigotry have engaged the efforts of many people. People disagree, however, over who is a bigot and what makes a belief, attitude, or action bigoted. This book argues that bigotry has both a backward- and forward-looking dimension. We learn bigotry’s meaning by looking to the past, but bigotry also has an important forward-looking dimension. Past examples of bigotry on which there is consensus become the basis for prospective judgments about analogous forms of bigotry. The rhetoric of bigotry—how people use such words as “bigot,” “bigoted,” and “bigotry”—poses puzzles that urgently demand attention. Those include whether bigotry concerns the motivation for or the content of a belief or action; whether reasonableness is a defense to charges of bigotry; whether the bigot is a distinct type, or whether we are all a bit bigoted; and whether “bigotry” is the term society gives to beliefs that now are beyond the pale. This book addresses those puzzles by examining prior controversies over interfaith and interracial marriage and the recent controversy over same-sex marriage, as well as controversies over landmark civil rights law and more recent conflicts between religious liberty and state anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ persons.

Electoral paths and support for same-sex marriage legislation: Evidence from Taiwan’s mixed-member system

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 563-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy S Rich
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Proportional Representation ◽  
Electoral Institutions ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Institutional Influences ◽  
Marriage Laws

To what extent do electoral institutions influence positions on same-sex marriage? Debates over same-sex marriage legislation have increased globally for the past 20 years, yet little research focuses on either debates in East Asia or the effect of electoral institutions. Using an original dataset on Taiwanese legislators and their public stances on same-sex marriage, this research finds that legislators elected under proportional representation (PR) are consistently more likely to support same-sex marriage laws than their counterparts elected in single-member districts (SMDs), even after controlling for partisanship. The results here not only highlight overlooked institutional influences on support, but also tie the broader literature on mixed-member systems to the growing research on same-sex marriage rights.

scholarly journals The Swedish Twin Registry: Establishment of a Biobank and Other Recent Developments

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrik K. E. Magnusson ◽  
Catarina Almqvist ◽  
Iffat Rahman ◽  
Andrea Ganna ◽  
Alexander Viktorin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Same Sex ◽  
Vitro Fertilization ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twin Registry ◽  
Molecular Studies ◽  
Similarity Algorithm ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Swedish Twin Registry

The Swedish Twin Registry (STR) today contains more than 194,000 twins and more than 75,000 pairs have zygosity determined by an intra-pair similarity algorithm, DNA, or by being of opposite sex. Of these, approximately 20,000, 25,000, and 30,000 pairs are monozygotic, same-sex dizygotic, and opposite-sex dizygotic pairs, respectively. Since its establishment in the late 1950s, the STR has been an important epidemiological resource for the study of genetic and environmental influences on a multitude of traits, behaviors, and diseases. Following large investments in the collection of biological specimens in the past 10 years we have now established a Swedish twin biobank with DNA from 45,000 twins and blood serum from 15,000 twins, which effectively has also transformed the registry into a powerful resource for molecular studies. We here describe the main projects within which the new collections of both biological samples as well as phenotypic measures have been collected. Coverage by year of birth, zygosity determination, ethnic heterogeneity, and influences of in vitro fertilization are also described.

Defenders of Freedom

2022 ◽  
pp. 261-295
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Past

In the past few decades, the question of whether and how civil society should recognize committed intimate relationships between two people of the same sex has become a prominent and divisive policy issue. Marriage as an institution embodies both formal legally enforceable rules and informal arrangements. This chapter discusses the heightened lawmaking efforts after the legalization of same-sex marriage by legislators who are more inclined to use religious claims in their opposition to homosexuality and same-sex relationships.

Family Law in America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanford N. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Due Process ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Supreme Court Case ◽  
Full Discussion ◽  
The Right

This book examines the present state of family law in America. The third edition captures recent developments, including the transformation of the institution of marriage from being a relationship between a man and a woman to encompassing same-sex marriage. In this regard, the book includes a full discussion and analysis of Obergefell v. Hodges. Obergefell v. Hodges is the U.S. Supreme Court case that held in a 5-4 decision that the bans on same-sex marriage in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee were unconstitutional. The Court held that the right to marry a person of the same sex is protected by the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore may not be denied in any state.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document