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What follows discusses how BBC’s Dracula uses character representations, scripted dialogue, and narrative to challenge and perpetuate the dominant ideologies of our society. Dracula exposes the tensions in the growing cultural acceptance of, but also increased resistance to, the…
My dissertation explores the demographics and composition of sexual minority populations in the United States, their labor market experiences, and public policy, respectively. Using a novel method of Cross-Survey Multiple Imputation (CSMI), I create a unique dataset which allows…
This project documents the efforts of Kansas City activists, organizers, and politicians who successfully fought for the passage of a municipal nondiscrimination ordinance in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ordinance outlawed discrimination in employment, housing, and public…
Many scholars have studied French Interwar photographer Claude Cahun’s use of mirrors in their self-portraits. However, scholarship of these photographs remains largely in discursive isolation. Indeed, scholars have yet to connect these artworks to the rest of Cahun’s oeuvre, as…
Research has demonstrated that overt and covert experiences of prejudice and discrimination have been associated with increased stress and distress among people with disabilities (Emerson, 2010; Mazur, 2008), a population with higher than expected rates of mental health concerns…
This study is a qualitative investigation of how one teacher's equity orientation impacts her work in an urban high school in south Texas. Her experience including students, especially those who identify with differences, is represented as a critical case study. The primary purp…
Media reports have shown same-sex issues in Catholics schools emerge in three ways: (1) same-sex parents who have children in a Catholic school, (2) same-sex students, and (3) same-sex teachers. These issues present a threat to Catholic school identity. Catholic school leaders a…
Homosexuality was removed from the list of mental illnesses in 1973, but negative attitudes towards homosexuals continue to be held by many mental health workers (Bradford, Ryan, & Rothblum, 1994; Edwards, 1996; Haldeman, 1994; Nicolosi, 1991; Socarides, 1988). Members of the ga…
Using a qualitative research design, this study attempted to find out how lesbian and bisexual women of color came to know their sexual orientation identity and how they came to share this identity with others. Fifteen women of color currently enrolled in one of two four-year un…
""This is the first sustained collection of writings by established and young scholars on how sexualities are negotiated in Hong Kong and China. It is innovative and exciting, providing grounded empirical fieldwork as well as critical applications from the wider fiedls of litera…
Drawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume showcases the work of scholars working mostly outside Euro-America and focuses on cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing.
Sex is undoubtedly on your mind. So don't you want a human sexuality text that reflects your life situation and answers your questions? Loaded with information that students like you want and need to learn, this text hits the mark as it addresses concerns that students have abou…
"In this book, Susan Gluck Mezey examines LGBT policymaking over the last several decades, highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community. With an emphasis on courts, she traces developments in the struggles for LGBT …