This open access book is a groundbreaking volume that creates a new field within the intersection of “global health” and “LGBTQ health” delineating specific health challenges and resiliencies. There ...has been increasing awareness of the importance in recognizing LGBTQ health issues and disparities. However, there is a dearth of research and scholarship that examines LGBTQ health through global and comparative perspectives. This book addresses this gap. In the pursuit of scientific inquiry, the disciplines in public health have often emphasized reductionist perspectives that are particularized to a specific locale, municipality, or country. This book's provision of broader perspectives, cross-cutting disparities and issues, and socio-political-cultural contextualization inform the development of new research, policies, interventions, and programs. Students benefit by learning about LGBTQ health research, policies, and programs in various countries and regions. Public health researchers benefit by learning about research conducted in various countries and regions, along with understanding how research has been linked to and impacted by various policies and programs. Policymakers benefit from learning about overarching and comparative perspectives that could inform more effective policies, including those connected to multiple locations. Practitioners learn about various public health practices in multiple countries and regions that could contribute to novel and creative solutions and approaches within the respective contexts. The nine chapters of this volume facilitate greater socio-political-cultural awareness, sensitivity, and competence; undertake an in-depth literature review of health factors and outcomes; and provide recommendations for increasing health-related capacity through development and collaborations between agencies, organizations, and institutions across countries and/or regions. Global LGBTQ Health: Research, Policy, Practice, and Pathways is primarily intended for students and instructors in public health, medicine, nursing, other health professions, psychology, social work, LGBTQ or gender/sexuality studies, human rights, and the social sciences. The book is also a useful resource for public health researchers and practitioners, policymakers, and healthcare and social service providers.
Queer Attachments Munt, Sally R.
2007, 20170929, 2008-07-01, 2017-09-29
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Why is shame so central to our identity and to our culture? What is its role in stigmatizing subcultures such as the Irish, the queer or the underclass? Can shame be understood as a productive force? ...In this lucid and passionately argued book, Sally R. Munt explores the vicissitudes of shame across a range of texts, cultural milieux, historical locations and geographical spaces - from eighteenth-century Irish politics to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, from contemporary US academia to the aesthetics of Tracey Emin. She finds that the dynamics of shame are consistent across cultures and historical periods, and that patterns of shame are disturbingly long-lived. But she also reveals shame as an affective emotion, engendering attachments between bodies and between subjects - queer attachments. Above all, she celebrates the extraordinary human ability to turn shame into joy: the party after the fall. Queer Attachments is an interdisciplinary synthesis of cultural politics, emotions theory and narrative that challenges us to think about the queerly creative proclivities of shame.
Contents: Series editors' preface: After shame; Foreword, Donald L. Nathanson; The cultural politics of shame: an introduction; Queer Irish sodomites: the shameful histories of Edmund Burke, William Smith, Theodosius Reed, the Earl of Castlehaven and diverse servants - among others; Shove the queer: Irish/American shame in New York's annual St Patrick's Day parades; Expulsion: the queer turn of shame; Queering the pitch: contagious acts of shame in organisations; Shameless in Queer Street; A queer undertaking: uncanny attachments in the HBO television drama series Six Feet Under; After the fall: queer heterotopias in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy; A queer feeling when I look at you: Tracey Emin's aesthetics of the self; Bibliography; Index.
Sally R. Munt is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex , UK. She has published extensively in cultural studies and is the author or editor of seven previous books including Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space (1998) and (as editor) Cultural Studies and the Working Class: Subject to Change (2000). She has given numerous keynote speeches and invited lectures in Europe and the US.
Drawn from extensive, new and rich empirical research across the UK, Canada and USA, Queer Spiritual Spaces investigates the contemporary socio-cultural practices of belief, by those who have ...historically been, and continue to be, excluded or derided by mainstream religions and alternative spiritualities. As the first monograph to be directly informed by 'queer' subjectivities whilst dealing with divergent spiritualities on an international scale, this book explores the recently emerging innovative spaces and integrative practices of queer spiritualities. Its breadth of coverage and keen critical engagement mean it will serve as a theoretically fertile, comprehensive entry point for any scholar wishing to explore the queer spiritual spaces of the twenty-first century.
Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of
society's body outlaws-individuals from myriad social locations who
oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body.
Original ...research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative
interviews, and participant observation) along with personal
narratives provide a window into the everyday lives of people
rewriting the norms of embodiment in sites like schools, sporting
events, and doctors' offices. Table of Contents
Introduction | Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan Part I:
Going "Natural" • Body Hair Battlegrounds: The
Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their
Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair | Breanne Fahs • Radical
Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment |
Monica Basile • Caring for the Corpse: Embodied Transgression
and Transformation in Home Funeral Advocacy | Anne Esacove
Living Resistance: • Deconstructing Reconstructing: Challenging
Medical Advice Following Mastectomy | Joanna Rankin • My
Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the "Kink" in My Hair . . .
Today | Cheryl Thompson • Living My Full Life: My
Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge
Eating Disorder | Christina Fisanick • Pretty Brown:
Encounters with My Skin Color | Praveena Lakshmanan Part II:
Representing Resistance • Blood as Resistance:
Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism | Shayda Kafai
• Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet?: Resistance through Parody in
the Pretty or Ugly YouTube Trend | Katherine Phelps • The
Infidel in the Mirror: Mormon Women's Oppositional Embodiment
| Kelly Grove and Doug Schrock Living Resistance: • A Cystor's
Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Disruption of Normative
Femininity | Ledah McKellar • Old Bags Take a Stand: A
Face Off with Ageism in America | Faith Baum and Lori Petchers
• Making Up with My Body: Applying Cosmetics to Resist
Disembodiment | Haley Gentile • I Am a Person Now: Autism,
Indistinguishability, and (Non)optimal Outcome | Alyssa
Hillary Part III: Creating Community, Disrupting
Assumptions • Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The
Complexity of Black Girls' Resistance | Stephanie D. Sears and
Maxine Leeds Craig • Big Gay Men's Performative Protest Against
Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth | Jason Whitesel
• "What's Love Got to Do with It?": The Embodied Activism of
Domestic Violence Survivors on Welfare | Sheila M. Katz Living
Resistance: • "Your Signing Is So Beautiful!": The Radical
Invisibility of ASL Interpreters in Public | Rachel Kolb •
Two Shakes | Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer • "Showing Our
Muslim": Embracing the Hijab in the Era of Paradox | Sara
Rehman • "Doing Out": A Black Dandy Defies Gender Norms in the
Bronx | Mark Broomfield • Everybody: Making Fat Radio for
All of Us | Cat Pausé Part IV: Transforming Institutions
and Ideologies • Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering
Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life | J. E. Sumerau
• Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into
Law | J. Shoshanna Ehrlich • Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton
Twirlers' Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain | Trenton
M. Haltom • "That Gentle Somebody": Rethinking Black Female
Same-Sex Practices and Heteronormativity in Contemporary South
Africa | Taylor Riley Living Resistance:
Discrimination against LGBTI people remains pervasive, while its cost is massive. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the extent to which laws in OECD countries ensure equal treatment of ...LGBTI people, and of the complementary policies that could help foster LGBTI inclusion.
This book looks at the specificities of the exclusion of LGBT refugees, to show how the cultural politics of queer migration help us rethink emancipatory sexual politics.
Les situations de la diversité en milieu de travail varient selon les pays et les régions. Nombre de facteurs expriment la variabilité de ces situations : faut-il désormais parler de diversités au ...pluriel? Des thèmes que l’on croyait enfouis, maintenant en résurgence (religion, esclavage), entraînent des clivages catégoriels insoupçonnés. Malgré cette hétérogénéité, surgit un intérêt convergent pour les personnes en périphérie du marché du travail – sans exclure l’apport central des gens qui l’occupent. Il ressort de cette quête de compréhension l’attente d’une démarche inclusive de la part d’acteurs du marché du travail : employeurs et État. Voilà l’intérêt fondamental de cet ouvrage. Ces diversités ont fait l’objet de réflexions approfondies à l’occasion des 13e Rencontres internationales de la diversité (RID), tenues en octobre 2017 à l’Université Laval, à Québec. L’ouvrage regroupe une sélection de contributions présentées lors des Rencontres, aussi diverses dans leur contenu que dans leur provenance de terrains et d’auteurs.
Lavender and red Hobson, Emily K
2016., 20161101, 2016, 2016-10-04, Volume:
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LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements.Lavender and Redrecounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who ...understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. This politics was born in the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propelling a gay and lesbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold War. The gay and lesbian left found its center in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place where sexual self-determination and revolutionary internationalism converged. Across the 1970s, its activists embraced socialist and women of color feminism and crafted queer opposition to militarism and the New Right. In the Reagan years, they challenged U.S. intervention in Central America, collaborated with their peers in Nicaragua, and mentored the first direct action against AIDS. Bringing together archival research, oral histories, and vibrant images, Emily K. Hobson rediscovers the radical queer past for a generation of activists today.
Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginariesis the first edited volume of its kind, featuring the works of leading scholars, artists, and activists who reflect on the contributions ...of queer Filipinos to Canadian culture and society.Addressing a wide range of issues beyond the academy, the authors present a rich and under-studied archive of personal reflections, in-depth interviews, creative works, and scholarly essays. Their trandsdisciplinary approach highlights the need for queer, transgressive, and utopian practices that render visible histories of migration, empire building, settler colonialism, and globalization.Timely, urgent, and fascinating,Diasporic Intimaciesoffers an accessible entry point for readers who seek to pursue critically engaged community work, arts education, curatorial practice, and socially inflected research on sexuality, gender, and race in this ever-changing world.
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