This study used the methodology of a grounded situational analysis to explore the lives of therapists who specialize in addiction. Historians have researched the history of addiction treatment itself and some have identified parallel processes of discrimination, stigma, and stig…
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This master thesis explores the interactions between the Turkish LGBT community and the state, law enforcement, the military, the family and Turkish society in general. The aim was to make sense of these interactions by focusing on the social movement dimension of the Turkish LG…
This dissertation explores the role of gender in contemporary Islam and the daily lives of Muslim minorities. Specifically, I examine how social constructions of masculinity and femininity are manifest in militant jihad, and how young Muslims in America manage the stigma placed …
In 2009, the Pakistani Supreme Court began granting rights to gender ambiguous people who are locally known as khwaja siras. The Court organized this population into taxonomic groups and ordered the government to 'mainstream' them. These actions were based on certain cultural as…
Prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001 most Americans knew very little to nothing about Islam or Muslims. That lack of knowledge quickly changed due to a combination of factors. These primary factors included media coverage of the attackers' mission of Islamic extremism, Ame…