Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Setting the Stage - Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenki... more Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Setting the Stage - Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins Part I: Foundations for Thinking About Sexualities and Communication 1. The Invention of Heterosexuality: The Debut of the Heterosexual - Jonathan Ned Katz 2. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity - Jeffrey Weeks 3. On Judith Butler and Performantivity - Sara Salih 4. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part I] - E. Patrick Johnson 5. The Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde Part II: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Interpersonal Contexts 6. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence - William Leap 7. "Having a Girlfriend Without Knowing It": Intimate Friendships Among Adolescent Sexual-Minority Women - Lisa M. Diamond 8. Accounts of Sexual Identity Formation in Heterosexual Students - Michele J. Eliason 9. M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and ...
... Conversation. Queer theory and communication: From disciplining queers toqueering the discipl... more ... Conversation. Queer theory and communication: From disciplining queers toqueering the discipline(s). Yep, Gust A.; Lovaas, Karen E.; Elia, John P. Yep, Gust A. (Ed); Lovaas, Karen E. (Ed); Elia, John P. (Ed), (2003). Queer ...
A number of people were helpful to me in the process of researching and writing this dissertation... more A number of people were helpful to me in the process of researching and writing this dissertation. Members of my committee offered ideas from varied perspectives. My chair, David Stannard, discussed the overall design with me and helped focus the argument. Floyd Matson read the historical sections closely and brought interesting parallels in popular culture to my attention. Haunani-Kay Trask provided excellent feedback on the interview analysis. Meda Chesney-Lind graciously agreed to replace a departing committee member and gave very good advice from a social science perspective. And Deane Neubauer lived up to all the wonderful things I had heard about him; his expertise and empathy proved extremely valuable. I was fortunate to work with a committee of suchhigh caliber. I' am grateful to the women I interviewed for this research who were willing to discuss intimate aspects of their lives and, in the process, educated me enormously. How many dissertations would be written without supportive personal relationships? My husband Erich Hunt exhibited unfailing love and belief in me and assisted in numerous other concrete ways. Constance Fournier has been my comrade throughout the long process of earning a doctorate, from coursework to comprehensive exam to dissertation writing and defense. lowe a special debt of gratitude to Dawn Mills, who also recently completed a dissertation on PMS; she was my colleague, editor, ally, and friend. It would have been much lonelier without her. Many other friends and family members also offered encouragement. This work is dedicated to my beloved sister, Catherine Carol Lovaas, who died on January 15, 1993. The example of her life will always be a rich source of inspiration.
... Conversation. Queer theory and communication: From disciplining queers toqueering the discipl... more ... Conversation. Queer theory and communication: From disciplining queers toqueering the discipline(s). Yep, Gust A.; Lovaas, Karen E.; Elia, John P. Yep, Gust A. (Ed); Lovaas, Karen E. (Ed); Elia, John P. (Ed), (2003). Queer ...
* Foreword (Steven Seidman) * Acknowledgments * INTRODUCTION * Shifting Ground(s): Surveying the ... more * Foreword (Steven Seidman) * Acknowledgments * INTRODUCTION * Shifting Ground(s): Surveying the Contested Terrain of LGBT Studies and Queer Theory (Karen E. Lovaas, John P. Elia, and Gust A. Yep) * THEORETICAL DEBATES AND INTERVENTIONS * Queer Theory, Late Capitalism, and International Homophobia (Max Kirsch) * Anti-Homosexual Prejudice... as Opposed to What? Queer Theory and the Social Psychology of Anti-Homosexual Attitudes (Peter Hegarty and Sean Massey) * Outlaws or In-Laws? Queer Theory, LGBT Studies, and Religious Studies (Melissa M. Wilcox) * A Queer Anxiety: Assimilation Politics and Cinematic Hedonics in Relax... It's Just Sex (Jeff Bennett) * INTERVENTIONS * Historicizing (Bi)Sexuality: A Rejoinder for Gay/Lesbian Studies, Feminism, and Queer Theory (Steven Angelides) * Troubling the Canon: Bisexuality and Queer Theory (Mark A Gammon and Kirsten L. Isgro) * Cape Queer? A Case Study of Provincetown, Massachusetts (Karen Christel Krahulik) * Jewish Disappearing Acts and the Construction of Gender (Ruth D. Johnston) * Desiring Mates (Dean Durber) * CONTEXTS * Teaching Queer Theory at a Normal School (Jen Bacon) * Containing Uncertainty: Sexual Values and Citizenship (Claudia Schippert) * Ferment in LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: Personal Ruminations on Contested Terrain (R. Anthony Slagle) * Index * Reference Notes Included
In this paper, we study discourses of emotion management on the reality television show Survivor.... more In this paper, we study discourses of emotion management on the reality television show Survivor. We analyze segments of the program that feature emotionally charged interactional moments and examine how these moments of interaction are interwoven with contestants’ confessional interviews and framed the narrator’s introductions of the segments. In a two part analysis, we first analyze the talk produced by the contestants and the host as individual texts, using a discourse analytic approach that focuses on the details of the talk itself. We then consider the way the talk constitutes a series of layered texts and analyze these texts, using a discourse analytic approach that attends to macro-level and critical perspectives. We conclude that Survivor largely reinforces dominant cultural discourses of emotion management as strategic interactional practice that allow a person to be competitive. Furthermore, the analysis links performances of emotion management to representations of specific aspects of contestants’ social identities.
The International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 2002
In the United States, HIV/AIDS is invisible in Asian and Pacific Islander (A/PI) communities even... more In the United States, HIV/AIDS is invisible in Asian and Pacific Islander (A/PI) communities even though it has affected them since 1981. As the AIDS crisis enters its second decade, A/PI communities continue to face a classic Catch-22: They receive modest, if any, funding for services, education, or research because there are relatively few reported Asian AIDS cases, but no one can financially, socially, and ethically afford to wait for an explosion of HIV infection in these communities. This article, using the AIDS Risk Reduction Model (ARRM) as an organizing framework, reviews, analyzes, and integrates the current state of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors associated with HIV/AIDS among Asians and Pacific Islanders. Implications for community health education programs and future directions for research are discussed.
Although a growing body of work addresses heterosexism and homophobia in the classroom context, t... more Although a growing body of work addresses heterosexism and homophobia in the classroom context, the majority of this literature neglects trans identities and issues. For various reasons, trans existence currently poses particular challenges to many college students and professors. Foremost among these are traditional assumptions about sex, gender, and sexual identities as stable, essential, binary entities, notions that are often grounded in scientific, religious, and political ideologies.In this essay, we first review various conceptualizations of transgenderism and explore the advantages of applying queer theory and critical pedagogical strategies to this subject. Second, based on our work together and our individual experiences, we offer suggestions for facilitating constructive classroom dialogues around “trans-anxieties” and provide examples of student responses to these methods.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study discourses of emotion management on the reality television show ... more ABSTRACT In this paper, we study discourses of emotion management on the reality television show Survivor. We analyze segments of the program that feature emotionally charged interactional moments and examine how these interactions are interwoven with contestants’ confessional interviews and framed by the narrator’s introductions of the segments. In a two part analysis, we first analyze the talk produced by the contestants and the host as individual texts, using a discourse analytic perspective that focuses on the details of the talk itself. We then consider the ways the talk constitutes a series of layered texts and analyze these texts, using a discourse analytic approach that attends to macro-level and critical perspectives. We conclude that Survivor largely reinforces dominant cultural discourses of emotion management as strategic interactional practice that allow a person to be competitive. Furthermore, the analysis links performances of emotion management to representations of specific aspects of contestants’ social identities.
The majority of nonverbal communication research and pedagogy reproduces heterosexist and sexist ... more The majority of nonverbal communication research and pedagogy reproduces heterosexist and sexist ideologies, normalizing and naturalizing gender and sexual binaries, and sanctioning an exceedingly narrow range of gendered and sexualized subjects, practices, and relationships. This essay proposes that nonverbal communication scholarship and pedagogy need to address these issues. First, I provide a brief summary of the history of the field of nonverbal communication. Second, I critique the conspicuous absence of the queer subject, the rigid essentialism, and the pervasive heterosexism in nonverbal communication textbooks in particular. Finally, I discuss three examples of communication research that avoid these pitfalls and herald what queering nonverbal communication might look like.
While queer theory initially grew out of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies, ... more While queer theory initially grew out of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies, there are numerous points of contestation between these two approaches, originating mostly from their disparate positions on (sexual) identity politics. To describe, analyze, and contextualize this contested terrain, we begin this piece by providing some historical notes on LGBT studies and queer theory. Next, we turn
Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Setting the Stage - Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenki... more Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Setting the Stage - Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins Part I: Foundations for Thinking About Sexualities and Communication 1. The Invention of Heterosexuality: The Debut of the Heterosexual - Jonathan Ned Katz 2. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity - Jeffrey Weeks 3. On Judith Butler and Performantivity - Sara Salih 4. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part I] - E. Patrick Johnson 5. The Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde Part II: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Interpersonal Contexts 6. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence - William Leap 7. "Having a Girlfriend Without Knowing It": Intimate Friendships Among Adolescent Sexual-Minority Women - Lisa M. Diamond 8. Accounts of Sexual Identity Formation in Heterosexual Students - Michele J. Eliason 9. M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and ...
... Conversation. Queer theory and communication: From disciplining queers toqueering the discipl... more ... Conversation. Queer theory and communication: From disciplining queers toqueering the discipline(s). Yep, Gust A.; Lovaas, Karen E.; Elia, John P. Yep, Gust A. (Ed); Lovaas, Karen E. (Ed); Elia, John P. (Ed), (2003). Queer ...
A number of people were helpful to me in the process of researching and writing this dissertation... more A number of people were helpful to me in the process of researching and writing this dissertation. Members of my committee offered ideas from varied perspectives. My chair, David Stannard, discussed the overall design with me and helped focus the argument. Floyd Matson read the historical sections closely and brought interesting parallels in popular culture to my attention. Haunani-Kay Trask provided excellent feedback on the interview analysis. Meda Chesney-Lind graciously agreed to replace a departing committee member and gave very good advice from a social science perspective. And Deane Neubauer lived up to all the wonderful things I had heard about him; his expertise and empathy proved extremely valuable. I was fortunate to work with a committee of suchhigh caliber. I' am grateful to the women I interviewed for this research who were willing to discuss intimate aspects of their lives and, in the process, educated me enormously. How many dissertations would be written without supportive personal relationships? My husband Erich Hunt exhibited unfailing love and belief in me and assisted in numerous other concrete ways. Constance Fournier has been my comrade throughout the long process of earning a doctorate, from coursework to comprehensive exam to dissertation writing and defense. lowe a special debt of gratitude to Dawn Mills, who also recently completed a dissertation on PMS; she was my colleague, editor, ally, and friend. It would have been much lonelier without her. Many other friends and family members also offered encouragement. This work is dedicated to my beloved sister, Catherine Carol Lovaas, who died on January 15, 1993. The example of her life will always be a rich source of inspiration.
... Conversation. Queer theory and communication: From disciplining queers toqueering the discipl... more ... Conversation. Queer theory and communication: From disciplining queers toqueering the discipline(s). Yep, Gust A.; Lovaas, Karen E.; Elia, John P. Yep, Gust A. (Ed); Lovaas, Karen E. (Ed); Elia, John P. (Ed), (2003). Queer ...
* Foreword (Steven Seidman) * Acknowledgments * INTRODUCTION * Shifting Ground(s): Surveying the ... more * Foreword (Steven Seidman) * Acknowledgments * INTRODUCTION * Shifting Ground(s): Surveying the Contested Terrain of LGBT Studies and Queer Theory (Karen E. Lovaas, John P. Elia, and Gust A. Yep) * THEORETICAL DEBATES AND INTERVENTIONS * Queer Theory, Late Capitalism, and International Homophobia (Max Kirsch) * Anti-Homosexual Prejudice... as Opposed to What? Queer Theory and the Social Psychology of Anti-Homosexual Attitudes (Peter Hegarty and Sean Massey) * Outlaws or In-Laws? Queer Theory, LGBT Studies, and Religious Studies (Melissa M. Wilcox) * A Queer Anxiety: Assimilation Politics and Cinematic Hedonics in Relax... It's Just Sex (Jeff Bennett) * INTERVENTIONS * Historicizing (Bi)Sexuality: A Rejoinder for Gay/Lesbian Studies, Feminism, and Queer Theory (Steven Angelides) * Troubling the Canon: Bisexuality and Queer Theory (Mark A Gammon and Kirsten L. Isgro) * Cape Queer? A Case Study of Provincetown, Massachusetts (Karen Christel Krahulik) * Jewish Disappearing Acts and the Construction of Gender (Ruth D. Johnston) * Desiring Mates (Dean Durber) * CONTEXTS * Teaching Queer Theory at a Normal School (Jen Bacon) * Containing Uncertainty: Sexual Values and Citizenship (Claudia Schippert) * Ferment in LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: Personal Ruminations on Contested Terrain (R. Anthony Slagle) * Index * Reference Notes Included
In this paper, we study discourses of emotion management on the reality television show Survivor.... more In this paper, we study discourses of emotion management on the reality television show Survivor. We analyze segments of the program that feature emotionally charged interactional moments and examine how these moments of interaction are interwoven with contestants’ confessional interviews and framed the narrator’s introductions of the segments. In a two part analysis, we first analyze the talk produced by the contestants and the host as individual texts, using a discourse analytic approach that focuses on the details of the talk itself. We then consider the way the talk constitutes a series of layered texts and analyze these texts, using a discourse analytic approach that attends to macro-level and critical perspectives. We conclude that Survivor largely reinforces dominant cultural discourses of emotion management as strategic interactional practice that allow a person to be competitive. Furthermore, the analysis links performances of emotion management to representations of specific aspects of contestants’ social identities.
The International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 2002
In the United States, HIV/AIDS is invisible in Asian and Pacific Islander (A/PI) communities even... more In the United States, HIV/AIDS is invisible in Asian and Pacific Islander (A/PI) communities even though it has affected them since 1981. As the AIDS crisis enters its second decade, A/PI communities continue to face a classic Catch-22: They receive modest, if any, funding for services, education, or research because there are relatively few reported Asian AIDS cases, but no one can financially, socially, and ethically afford to wait for an explosion of HIV infection in these communities. This article, using the AIDS Risk Reduction Model (ARRM) as an organizing framework, reviews, analyzes, and integrates the current state of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors associated with HIV/AIDS among Asians and Pacific Islanders. Implications for community health education programs and future directions for research are discussed.
Although a growing body of work addresses heterosexism and homophobia in the classroom context, t... more Although a growing body of work addresses heterosexism and homophobia in the classroom context, the majority of this literature neglects trans identities and issues. For various reasons, trans existence currently poses particular challenges to many college students and professors. Foremost among these are traditional assumptions about sex, gender, and sexual identities as stable, essential, binary entities, notions that are often grounded in scientific, religious, and political ideologies.In this essay, we first review various conceptualizations of transgenderism and explore the advantages of applying queer theory and critical pedagogical strategies to this subject. Second, based on our work together and our individual experiences, we offer suggestions for facilitating constructive classroom dialogues around “trans-anxieties” and provide examples of student responses to these methods.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study discourses of emotion management on the reality television show ... more ABSTRACT In this paper, we study discourses of emotion management on the reality television show Survivor. We analyze segments of the program that feature emotionally charged interactional moments and examine how these interactions are interwoven with contestants’ confessional interviews and framed by the narrator’s introductions of the segments. In a two part analysis, we first analyze the talk produced by the contestants and the host as individual texts, using a discourse analytic perspective that focuses on the details of the talk itself. We then consider the ways the talk constitutes a series of layered texts and analyze these texts, using a discourse analytic approach that attends to macro-level and critical perspectives. We conclude that Survivor largely reinforces dominant cultural discourses of emotion management as strategic interactional practice that allow a person to be competitive. Furthermore, the analysis links performances of emotion management to representations of specific aspects of contestants’ social identities.
The majority of nonverbal communication research and pedagogy reproduces heterosexist and sexist ... more The majority of nonverbal communication research and pedagogy reproduces heterosexist and sexist ideologies, normalizing and naturalizing gender and sexual binaries, and sanctioning an exceedingly narrow range of gendered and sexualized subjects, practices, and relationships. This essay proposes that nonverbal communication scholarship and pedagogy need to address these issues. First, I provide a brief summary of the history of the field of nonverbal communication. Second, I critique the conspicuous absence of the queer subject, the rigid essentialism, and the pervasive heterosexism in nonverbal communication textbooks in particular. Finally, I discuss three examples of communication research that avoid these pitfalls and herald what queering nonverbal communication might look like.
While queer theory initially grew out of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies, ... more While queer theory initially grew out of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies, there are numerous points of contestation between these two approaches, originating mostly from their disparate positions on (sexual) identity politics. To describe, analyze, and contextualize this contested terrain, we begin this piece by providing some historical notes on LGBT studies and queer theory. Next, we turn
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