The Trouble With Normal
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The Trouble With Normal
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Author : Mary Louise Adams
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
The Trouble With Normal written by Mary Louise Adams and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Social Science categories.
In the years after the Second World War, economic and social factors combined to produce an intense concern over the sexual development and behaviour of young people. In a context where heterosexuality and 'normality' were understood to be synonymous and assumed to be necessary for social and national stability, teenagers were the target of a range of materials and practices meant to turn young people into proper heterosexuals. In this study, Mary Louise Adams explores discourses about youth and their place in the production and reproduction of heterosexual norms. She examines debates over juvenile delinquency, indecent literature, and sex education to show not why heterosexuality became a peculiar obsession in English Canada following the Second World War as much as how it came to hold such sway. Drawing on feminist theory, cultural studies, and lesbian/gay studies, The Trouble with Normal is the first Canadian study of 'youth' as a sexual and moral category. Adams looks not only at sexual material aimed at teenagers but also at sexual discourses generally, for what they had to say about young people and for the ways in which 'youth,' as a concept, made those discourses work. She argues that postwar insecurities about young people narrowed the sexual possibilities of both young people and adults. While much of the recent history of sexuality examines sexuality 'from the margins,' The Trouble with Normal is firmly committed to examining the 'centre,' to unpacking normality itself. As the first book-length study of the history of sexuality in postwar Canada, it will make an important contribution to the growing international literature on sexual regulation.
The Trouble With Normal
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Author : Michael Warner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Trouble With Normal written by Michael Warner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
Michael Warner, one of our most brilliant social critics, argues that gay marriage and other moves toward normalcy are bad not just for the gays but for everyone. In place of sexual status quo, Warner offers a vision of true sexual autonomy that will forever change the way we think about sex, shame, and identity.
The Trouble With Nature
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Author : Roger N. Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-04
The Trouble With Nature written by Roger N. Lancaster and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04 with History categories.
Lancaster provides the disproof of evolutionary stories about men, women, and the nature of desire of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene.
Violence And The State In Suharto S Indonesia
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Author : Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson
language : en
Publisher: SEAP Publications
Release Date : 2001
Violence And The State In Suharto S Indonesia written by Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson and has been published by SEAP Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Nine chapters examine the political contexts, uses, and implications of violence under and within Suharto's regime in Indonesia. An unhappy spectrum of violence is described: crime and policing, military ideology and democratic resistance, the imposition of austerity measures and the riots that followed.
Fear Of A Queer Planet
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Author : Michael Warner
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1993
Fear Of A Queer Planet written by Michael Warner and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Social Science categories.
In recent years, lesbians and gay men have developed a new, aggressive style of politics. At the same time, innovative intellectual energies have made queer theory an explosive field of study. In "Fear of a Queer Planet", Michael Warner draws on emerging new queer politics, and shows how queer activists have come to challenge basic assumptions about the social and political world. Existing traditions of theory - Marxism, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology, legal theory, nationalism, and antinationalism - have too often presupposed a heterosexual society, as the essays in this volume demonstrate. "Fear of a Queer Planet" suggests a new agenda for social theory. It moves beyond the idea that lesbians and gay men share a minority identity and special interests and that their issues can be subordinated to more general social conflicts. Instead, Warner and the other contributors to this volume show that queer sexualities take many forms, are the subject of many kinds of conflict and struggles, and must be taken as a starting point in thinking about cultural politics. This collection explores the impact of ACT UP, Queer Nation, multiculturalism, the new religious right, outing, queerness, postmodernism, and other shifts in the politics of sexuality. The authors featured speak from different backgrounds of gender, race, nationality, and discipline. Together, they show how struggles over sexuality have profound implications for progressive politics, social theory, and cultural studies. Michael Warner has written extensively on censorship and the public sphere, the construction of American literary history, and the social and political implication of literary theories. He is author of "The Letter of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America" and co-editor of "The Origins of Literary Studies in America: A Documentary Anthology".
Daisy And The Trouble With London
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Author : Kes Gray
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-03-03
Daisy And The Trouble With London written by Kes Gray and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The BRAND NEW laugh-out-loud Daisy adventure for readers of 6-9, from bestselling author of the Oi Frog series, Kes Gray. Here comes trouble! Daisy is off to actual, actual London for the day!!! Nanny and Grampy are taking her to see the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and lots more. Trouble is, all Daisy really wants to see is Cooey the pigeon . . .
The Trouble With Perfect
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Author : Helena Duggan
language : en
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2018-09-06
The Trouble With Perfect written by Helena Duggan and has been published by Usborne Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Strange things are happening in the town that used to be Perfect. Things are being stolen... then children start going missing too. And everyone is blaming Violet's best friend, Boy. But Boy's not BAD - is he? To find out what's going on, Violet must uncover secrets from the past and battle a gruesome zombie monster. Town is in trouble - double trouble - and it's up to Violet to save it. A reissue of this quirky and creepy sequel to the bestselling A Place Called Perfect, for fans of Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton. "Your heart is in your mouth and you're knee-deep in adventure..." MG Leonard, author of Beetle Boy
Feeling Normal
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Author : F. Hollis Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-09
Feeling Normal written by F. Hollis Griffin and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-09 with Social Science categories.
An analysis of emerging LGBTQ+ media, queer spaces in urban areas, and sexual identity. The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary moment has made media culture a major factor in what it feels like to be a queer person. F. Hollis Griffin demonstrates how cities offer a way of thinking about that phenomenon. By examining urban centers in tandem with advertiser-supported newspapers, New Queer Cinema and B-movies, queer-targeted television, and mobile apps, Griffin illustrates how new forms of LGBTQ+ media are less “new” than we often believe. He connects cities and LGBTQ+ media through the experiences they can make available to people, which Griffin articulates as feelings, emotions, and affects. He illuminates how the limitations of these experiences—while not universally accessible, nor necessarily empowering—are often the very reasons why people find them compelling and desirable. “As a guide to emerging queer media of our new century, Hollis Griffin is funny, generous, passionate, and lucid. Whether he’s explaining Grindr’s memes or the gayborhoods of Chicago, cable travel programs or online networks, Griffin discovers how it feels to be queer in the digital age.” —Amy Villarejo, author of Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire “Offers a piercing examination of modern identity politics focused on relationships among new forms of media consumption and marketplaces, urban centers, and the experiences of sexual minorities. . . . Feeling Normal is a must-read for scholars and students in queer studies and communication, media studies, film studies, and sociology.” —Choice
We Are Totally Normal
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Author : Naomi Kanakia
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-03-31
We Are Totally Normal written by Naomi Kanakia and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
In this queer contemporary YA, perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story, Nandan’s perfect plan for junior year goes awry after he hooks up with a guy for the first time. Nandan’s got a plan to make his junior year perfect, but hooking up with his friend Dave isn’t part of it—especially because Nandan has never been into guys. Still, Nandan’s willing to give a relationship with him a shot. But the more his anxiety grows about what his sexuality means for himself, his friends, and his social life, the more he wonders whether he can just take it all back. Is breaking up with Dave—the only person who’s ever really gotten him—worth feeling “normal” again?
Daisy And The Trouble With Coconuts
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Author : Kes Gray
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-09-27
Daisy And The Trouble With Coconuts written by Kes Gray and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
'The trouble with coconuts is they are the worst type of nuts in the whole wide world. If you ask me, coconuts shouldn’t be allowed in a funfair. If you double ask me, they shouldn’t even be allowed to grow. Coconuts are too big. Coconuts are too hairy. Plus, if you try to win one, they just get you into trouble. Which isn’t my fault!' Get up to no good with Daisy as she heads to the funfair - for a whole lot more trouble!