This dissertation presents an ethnographic portrait of what life was like for Iranian Jewish women living in Iran and now in America. From 2004 to 2006, I have conducted interviews with three generations of Iranian Jewish women--grandmothers, mothers, and daughters--who currentl…
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A central concern in the public square is the devaluation or subjugation of a people using the shield of religion. It has become an expedient and nonchalant tool to abuse a certain class of people in the name of a higher power. Islam is no exception. Throughout the holy books of…
Background The transition to adulthood is critical for future wellbeing and in determining whether Indonesia will reap the demographic dividend. There are gaps in the description of Indonesian youth's transition to adulthood and the identification of factors that affect the tran…
When ministers experience sexual moral failure, they need access to the appropriate resources that will facilitate their recovery. Moral failure rarely happens because of one bad choice by an individual or simply because of spiritual problems. Far more often, multiple factors co…
Introduction: This multiphase qualitative study explored the understanding of middle-aged women’s sexuality and sexual difficulties and the way they address these difficulties. Nurses’ and midwives’ role in sexuality-related care was also explored. The need to address the subjec…
Throughout the last three decades, the Arab region has attracted the unwanted attention of the rest of the world because of its spiralling political upheaval. This unrest has caused migration, economic and cultural changes, and eventually a spring of revolutions and protests in …
This thesis examines the fiction of Neil Bartlett, Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, considering how they write missing voices of sexuality, gender and class back into history through re-imagining the city space. It examines the ways in which traditional, linear narratives and…
The 2004 Gender Equity Education Act (GEEA) sought to challenge gender and sexual discrimination in Taiwan by focusing on the importance of spaces of education as sites where gender and sexual identities are normalized and reproduced. This thesis explores the production of the G…
The aim of this study is to critically examine the experiences of disabled gay men who have accessed Manchester's commercial gay space known locally as the 'Village'. The thesis provides an initial exploration of how, in recent years, there has been an increasing rejection of th…
This dissertation connects the aesthetic commitment to the ordinary world in twentieth-century women’s literature to the invention and consolidation of modern sexuality. Owing largely to a political antipathy between “the ordinary” and “the queer,” scholars have not addressed th…
Dry Spell(noun): A period of arid weather. A calendrical break from intimacy. A lapse of love. I have found that most humans hold on either too tightly or too loosely to that which we feel intimate towards - a push or pull dynamic that reflects an unstable relationship with pow…
This dissertation examines the relationship between queer geography and gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia. This relationship is intrinsically tied to issues of urban land valuation, sexuality, race, and the material reality of a sprawling urban area. Using data from thirty-five…
Despite the direct connection between anal sex and pleasure (Hite, 1981; Morin, 2010), the majority of academic literature on anal sex frames the topic in terms of homophobia (when referring to male-bodied people) and/or disease (Aguilar, 2017; Brody & Weiss, 2011; McBride &…
The low HIV prevalence in Maldives coupled with low HIV comprehensive knowledge presents a challenge to the consistency of the hypothesized HIV knowledge-prevention paradigm. Researchers had not explained why HIV prevalence in Maldives is low despite the low levels of HIV knowle…
La tesis aborda al movimiento CMHNTM, sistematizando información acerca de sus ejes de acción, los paradigmas que sostienen sus reivindicaciones, las características de sus referentes y de las personas que conforman el grupo, la dinámica interna, como así también acerca de sus a…
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the attainment of social justice through the teaching of sexual diversity education in Life Skills in Namibia. In many cases inclusivity is claimed to be applied but social justice is not served. Therefore, access and equity as provided…
In the late Middle Ages, the Italian word fama had a wide semantic range that encompassed such vitally important topics as reputation, honor, community memory, and trustworthiness. In this dissertation, I examine how fama manifested within sodomy prosecutions in late medieval It…
Muslim online dating has emerged as a recently new phenomenon with real ethical implications. The purpose of this thesis is to examine key ethical issues within the realm of Muslim online dating and highlight guidance and relevant values that are fundamental to the development o…