An introduction to the main sources of identity and division within Northern Ireland. Examines ethnicity, religion, class, gender and the role of the media.
"The essays, stories, and poems in Male Lust encompass a large scope of experiences that men have with sex and desire. You will explore the extreme diversity of men's relationships as well as the vast number of social forces that shape, contain, and even produce "male lust." Som…
After Queer Theory makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signalling the end of anti-homophobic criticism, however, the end of queer presents the occ…
After Queer Theory makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism. James Penney argues that far from signalling the end of anti-homophobic criticism, however, the end of queer presents the occ…
While research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming, a systematic study of the intersection of right-wing populism and gender is still missing, even though gender issues are ubiquitous in discourses of the radical right ranging from »ethnosexism« against immigrant…
Drawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino cultural theories, composition studies, film and TV studies, and theories of globalisation/counter-globalisation, this book articulates key concerns of crip theory and considers how such a perspective might impact cultural …
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplatio…
My analysis is focused on the visual and sexual politics of the media coverage and public response to the military sex scandal commonly referred to as Abu Ghraib within a neoliberal context. The purpose of this project is to address a gap in current academic scholarship regardin…
This dissertation interrogates the ways in which fashion and the black body were reconceptualized and represented by the artists of the New Negro Movement, particularly in relation to consumption, visibility, performance, and sexuality. The search for self-determination, one of …
This dissertation investigates the relationship between Hollywood's seemingly overnight development into the nation's first mass culture industry and women's roles as industry workers, fans, and social critics in shaping and defining the sexual and racial politics of postwar Ame…
My dissertation investigates representations of interracial desire in South Asian British diasporic literature and film and in neo-imperial narratives of the 'war on terror'. Drawing upon theoretical insights from anti-racist feminism, decolonization and black British cultural s…