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queerqueen

Author : Claire Maree
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190869632

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From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive styles are commodified and packaged together to form this character. Representations of gay men's speech have changed in tandem with gender norms, increasingly crossing over into popular media via the body of the "authentic" gay male up to and including the current "LGBT boom" in Japan. In this context, queerqueen demonstrates how commercial practices of recording, transcribing, and editing spoken interactions and use of on-screen text encode queerqueen speech as inherently excessive and in need of containment. Tackling questions of authenticity, self-censorship, and the restrictions of heteronormativity within this perception of queer excess, Maree shows how queerqueen styles reproduce stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and desire that are essential to the business of mainstream entertainment.

Queerqueen

Author : Claire Maree
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190869618

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The Body of the Queen

Author : Regina Schulte
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 184545121X

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"Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Michael Jackson explores a variety of contemporary topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they possess for creating viable forms of social life."--BOOK JACKET.

Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition

Author : Maia Kobabe
Publisher : Oni Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1637150725

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Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition by Maia Kobabe Pdf

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. This special deluxe hardcover edition of Gender Queer features a brand-new cover, exclusive art and sketches, and a TK from creator Maia Kobabe.

From Drag Queens to Leathermen

Author : Rusty Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190675578

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This book examines gendered language use in six gay male subcultures: drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys, barebackers, and leathermen. Within each subculture, unique patterns of language use challenge normative assumptions about gender and sexual identity. Rusty Barrett's analyses of these subcultures emphasize the ways in which gay male constructions of gender are intimately linked to other forms of social difference. In From Drag Queens to Leathermen, Barrett presents an extension of his earlier work among African American drag queens in the 1990s, emphasizing the intersections of race and class in the construction of gender. An analysis of sacred music among radical faeries considers the ways in which expressions of gender are embedded in a broader neo-pagan religious identity. The formation of bear as an identity category (for heavyset and hairy men) in the late 1980s involves the appropriation of linguistic stereotypes of rural Southern masculinity. Among regular attendees of circuit parties, language serves to differentiate gay and straight forms of masculinity. In the early 2000s, barebackers (gay men who eschew condoms) used language to position themselves as rational risk takers with an innate desire for semen. For participants in the International Mr. Leather contest, a disciplined, militaristic masculinity links expressions of patriotism with BDSM sexual practice. In all of these groups, the construction of gendered identity involves combining linguistic forms that would usually not co-occur. These unexpected combinations serve as the foundation for the emergence of unique subcultural expressions of gay male identity, explicated at length in this book.

Measuring Research

Author : Cassidy R. Sugimoto,Vincent Larivière
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780190640118

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Policy makers, academic administrators, scholars, and members of the public are clamoring for indicators of the value and reach of research. The question of how to quantify the impact and importance of research and scholarly output, from the publication of books and journal articles to the indexing of citations and tweets, is a critical one in predicting innovation, and in deciding what sorts of research is supported and whom is hired to carry it out. There is a wide set of data and tools available for measuring research, but they are often used in crude ways, and each have their own limitations and internal logics. Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) will provide, for the first time, an accessible account of the methods used to gather and analyze data on research output and impact. Following a brief history of scholarly communication and its measurement -- from traditional peer review to crowdsourced review on the social web -- the book will look at the classification of knowledge and academic disciplines, the differences between citations and references, the role of peer review, national research evaluation exercises, the tools used to measure research, the many different types of measurement indicators, and how to measure interdisciplinarity. The book also addresses emerging issues within scholarly communication, including whether or not measurement promotes a "publish or perish" culture, fraud in research, or "citation cartels." It will also look at the stakeholders behind these analytical tools, the adverse effects of these quantifications, and the future of research measurement.

Thank You for Dying for Our Country

Author : Chaim Noy
Publisher : Oxf Studies in Anthropology of
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199398980

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Combining ethnographic, semiotic, and performative approaches, this book examines texts and accompanying acts of writing of national commemoration. The commemorative visitor book is viewed as a mobilized stage, a communication medium, where visitors' public performances are presented, and where acts of participation are authored and composed. The study contextualizes the visitor book within the material and ideological environment where it is positioned and where it functions. The semiotics of commemoration are mirrored in the visitor book, which functions as a participatory platform that becomes an extension of the commemorative spaces in the museum. The study addresses tourists' and visitors' texts, i.e. the commemorative entries in the book, which are succinct dialogical utterances. Through these public performances, individuals and groups of visitors align and affiliate with a larger imagined national community. Reading the entries allows a unique perspective on communication practices and processes, and vividly illustrates such concepts as genre, voice, addressivity, indexicality, and the very acts of writing and reading. The book's many entries tell stories of affirming, but also resisting the narrative tenets of Zionist national identity, and they illustrate the politics of gender and ethnicity in Israel society. The book presents many ethnographic observations and interviews, which were done both with the management of the site (Ammunition Hill National Memorial Site), and with the visitors themselves. The observations shed light on processes and practices involved in writing and reading, and on how visitors decide on what to write and how they collaborate on drafting their entries. The interviews with the site's management also illuminate the commemoration projects, and how museums and exhibitions are staged and managed.

Language and Sexuality

Author : Deborah Cameron,Don Kulick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521009693

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This lively and accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality.

Western Australian Targeting Handwriting

Author : Jane Pinsker,Jo Ryan,Stephen Michael King
Publisher : Pascal Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Penmanship
ISBN : 1920728325

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TheTargeting Handwriting Year 3 Student Bookfocuses on teaching the b asic joins. The book includes: diagonal joins, horiz ontal joins and touch joins joining to ascenders lette rs that don't join tracking exercises to introduce joins Handwriting is one of the most crucial skills students will deve lop in primary school. Targeting Handwriting covers the handwriting curr iculum in a clear and structured way, with content linked to Western Aus tralian Strand Outcome Statements. To be competent writers, students' ha ndwriting needs to be fluent and legible. Regular practice, three to fou r times a week in fine motor skills and in letter formation will ensure the development of good handwriting habits.

Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan

Author : Beverley Curran,Nana Sato-Rossberg,Kikuko Tanabe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317567042

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Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan by Beverley Curran,Nana Sato-Rossberg,Kikuko Tanabe Pdf

Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan and how translation operates in this shifting context and circulates globally by looking at some of the ways it is theorized and approached as a significant social, cultural, or political practice, and harnessed by its multiple agents; (2) draws attention to the multi-platform translations of cultural productions such as manga, which are both particular to and popular in Japan but also culturally influential and widely circulated transnationally; (3) poses questions about the range of roles translation has in the construction, performance, and control of gender roles in Japan, and (4) enriches Translation Studies by offering essays that problematize critical notions related to translation. In short, the essays in this book highlight the diversity and ubiquity of translation in Japan as well as the range of methods being used to understand how it is being theorized, positioned, and practiced.

Portico: The Social Media Thriller

Author : Gideon Burrows
Publisher : Gideon Burrows
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Portico: The Social Media Thriller by Gideon Burrows Pdf

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SHARE? HOW MUCH ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY? “Portico is a thought-provoking thriller. I’m already casting the film version in my mind.” ***** Goodreads review “Pacy, thrilling, suspenseful and complex to keep your attention… this is a must-read for anyone who likes intelligently-written thrillers – political, techno, or otherwise.” ***** Amazon review “The best of this genre I have read for a long time.” ***** Amazon review It’s 2030. A world of driverless electric cars, touchless screens and social media that knows what you want before you do. When jaded journalist Curtis Soren meets the new powerful boss of the government’s mysterious Ministry for Society, he uncovers a top-secret organisation that puts him and his colleagues in danger – and threatens the privacy and freedom of every citizen. In a struggle with his own haunted past and a present he doesn’t understand, Soren is forced to take on Portico, the biggest social media organisation of all. It becomes a desperate battle to expose the truth in an online world of fake news, censorship and social users addicted to their screens. Watch the Portico Trailer Lose yourself in this thrilling page turner which will challenge how you think about the future, and what you might need to sacrifice to get there. A word from the Gideon Burrows, award winning author: “Portico was prompted by a single short news story on the radio, which left me seething. It was about social media companies and their influence upon governments, but also on every individual. The most terrifying thing was that every time I invented a new social tool or twist in my story, it actually happened a few weeks later. It made the book scary to write and I hope thrilling to read.” Enjoy 368 pages of story for fans of political conspiracy, near future and technological thrillers.

Ren� Descartes

Author : Jason Porterfield
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508175490

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Ren� Descartes by Jason Porterfield Pdf

During the fifteenth century, the Scientific Revolution signaled a major shift in the way people viewed the natural world. Today, Ren� Descartes is perhaps best known as the father of modern Western philosophy, but he also played an important role in the development of a rational approach toward scientific questions. He was a gifted mathematician and his examinations of the natural world led him to develop theories about light, the formation of the universe, and how the human mind works. This biography shows how Descartes�s rational method inspired his own discoveries and continues to resonate today.

Public Culture

Author : Marguerite S. Shaffer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0812240812

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Public Culture by Marguerite S. Shaffer Pdf

From medicine shows to the Internet, from the Los Angeles Plaza to the Las Vegas Strip, from the commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing to television programming after 9/11, scholars examine issues of democracy, diversity, identity, community, citizenship, and belonging through the lens of American popular culture.

Millennials Talking Media

Author : Sylvia Sierra
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190931117

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"Inconceivable!"; "Long hair don't care"; "You shall not pass!"; "I'll be back." The way we read these lines - whether or not you picture Gandalf standing at the edge of a cliff and hear the deep monotone of the Terminator - makes it clear that media consumption affects our everyday lives,language, and how we identify as part of a group.Millennials Talking Media examines how U.S. millennial friends embed both old media (books, songs, movies, and TV shows) and new media (YouTube videos, videogames, and internet memes) in their everyday talk for particular interactional purposes. Sylvia Sierra presents multiple case studies featuringthe recorded talk of millennial friends to demonstrate how and why these speakers make media references and use them to handle awkward moments and other interactional dilemmas. Sierra's analysis shows how such references contribute to epistemic management and frame shifts in conversation, whichultimately work together to construct a shared sense of millennial identity. Additionally, this book explores the stereotypes embedded in the media that these friends cite and examines their effects in everyday social life.This book shows how the boundaries between screens, online and offline life, language, and identity are porous for millennials. Building on everyday conversation among family and friends and contemporary work in media studies, Sierra weaves together the most current linguistic theories regardingknowledge, framing, and identity to create a book that will be of interest to scholars and students of sociolinguistics, communication, rhetoric, conversation analysis, and media studies - and to boomers, millennials, and Gen Z alike.

When You Lie about Your Age, the Terrorists Win

Author : Carol Leifer
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345502971

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