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The Everyday Lives of Gay Men
Full text linkThe Everyday Lives of Gay Men draws on the expertise of 12 contributors from different countries and fields, writing from an autoethnographic first-person approach. Putting the power of personal stories at the centre of the construction of sophisticated narratives of gay men’s lives, the accounts draw attention to the limits of traditional perspectives to gay men’s studies that look at gayness through a sexualised lens and explore how gay men make sense of their identity in their everyday lives. Together they present a complex, nuanced understanding of gayness and challenge the conception of ‘being gay’ as a sexual orientation because it describes in sexual terms an identity that is not only, not always, and not predominantly sexual. The authors come from a variety of fields, including counselling studies and sociology, to communication, religion, and education. The innovative approach of The Everyday Lives of Gay Men makes it ideal for students and scholars in gender studies, sexuality studies, sociology, mental health, and research methods. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367676834, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Journeys of grief: Understanding how people experience grief and how they navigate their loss
No full textThe research project title Journeys of Grief refers to how people experience and navigate their loss, in their own way, at various points of their process to answer the following questions:a) How do people experience their Journeys of Grief?b) What have bereaved people found helpful to navigate their grief at different points in their process?To answer these questions, the project focused on exploring two aspects:1) How do people narrate their experiences of mourning throughout their Journeys of Grief?2) What have they found helpful in their processing of loss throughout this period
Notes on the contributors' experiences
Full text linkWritten by the editors, the chapter ‘Notes on the contributor’s experiences’ is informed by the authors’ experiences of writing their autoethnographic texts. Drawing on transcripts of Zoom conversations with the contributors, the chapter explores three key aspects of writing the book: how the contributors conceptualised ‘the everyday’; the ethical concerns they encountered during sometimes highly personal research, how they resolved them; and aspects of craft, or how their writing process looked in everyday practice. What arises is a bridging of disciplinary and methodological divisions in a reflective account of the contributor’s autoethnographic writing process.</p
What is conjured when we talk about the everyday lives of gay men?
Full text linkThis introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents examples of how being gay infuses his professional, social, and married life, offering a rich narrative of the centrality of gayness in his intra- and inter-personal relationships. It provides a rare insight into school life from the perspective of a teacher and articulates feelings that will resonate with a number of gay men beyond a professional perspective. The book also presents an element of Christianity in focus in a predominantly Buddhist country. It focuses on the concept of ‘ordinary privileges’ to construct the main argument about the parallels between someone’s ethnic background and someone’s sexual orientation/gay identity when navigating systems that favour whiteness and heterosexuality. The book also provides some reflective accounts of the writing process itself and how contributors navigated their autoethnographic research.</p
Conclusion
Full text linkThis introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides the view that being gay is a personal, social, and cultural phenomenon that has multiple implications in people’s lives. It demonstrates that being gay goes beyond discourses of sexuality and gender and reaches to realms of political, socio-economic, religious, legal, psychological, and global significance. Some stories narrated might resonate with other LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of feeling, exploring, and struggling for being part of a population that has been discriminated against, disadvantaged, colonised, and often oversimplified and understood only in terms of our desire. Studies that used to see gay life as a progression of stages with particular milestones and used those models to explain and predict gay men’s sexual behaviour are now finding in qualitative studies voices from the inside; voices from the native experts who might not find themselves represented in those studies.</p
I’m so glad I came, but I can’t wait to leave:An autoethnography of identity, gayness, and migration through theatre and performance
Full text linkCan a theatre play provide actors and audiences with a feeling of being at home?This article is an autoethnographic work that addresses how the author finds, in his work directing the research-based theatre play Heavier than Air devised by Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones, a self-identification with its queer characters. Describing it as a play that explicitly and implicitly welcomes people to be queer and to tell their stories, the author analyzes how the play also symbolizes the free movement of people and the quest for home
Ernest Thompson Seton: an unforgettable personality, by Edgar M. Robinson
No full textThis piece, titled “Ernest Thomas Seton: an unforgettable personality”, gives a first hand interpretation of who Ernest Thompson Seton (it is believed that whoever put the cover on this document spelled his name wrong) was through the eyes of Edgar Robinson. Robinson explains what a strong relationship the two of them had and what a strong mentor Seton was to Robinson. Ernest Thompson Seton was an author and illustrator of more than 50 works, and was largely responsible for the American Indian influence in the Boy Scouts of America that offered young people knowledge of an outdoor life based on Native American Indian customs, legends and beliefs. Seton was Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America from 1910 to 1915. Edgar M. Robinson was a 1901 graduate from the YMCA Training School, now Springfield college, where he later returned to serve on the faculty as the Honorary Director of Boys Work Courses and the Adviser in Methods and Principles in Work with Boys from 1927-1937.For biographical information on Edgar M. Robinson, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/554
For more information on Ernest Thompson Seton, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/553On the bottom of page number 1 there is a rip, which prevents part of the bottom two lines from being read. On that back of page number one appear the numbers "46757" written in pencil
The Maltese cactus:An autoethnography of the colonization of desire
Full text linkThis article presents an autoethnographic account of an encounter between two men – a Mexican scholar and a British artist – who met in Malta, to examine how post-colonialism influences the seemingly personal experience of erotic desire. The author, a man of indigenous descent, explores how his erotic attraction interweaved with powerful dynamics that were the product of the other man’s European cultural background. He problematizes this attraction by reflecting on thewhite ethnocentrism that colored his partner-seeking process. This autoethnography analyzes how European colonialism in Mexico affected not only language and religion, but also the deceivingly intimate aspect of erotic desire
Os paratextos das antologias brasileiras de contos de Edgar Allan Poe no século XXI
Full text linkTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2014.Esta tese analisa elementos paratextuais em antologias brasileiras de contos de Edgar Allan Poe lançados ou reeditados nos doze primeiros anos do século XXI, verificando de que forma o autor e sua obra são apresentados ao leitor através desses paratextos. Para tanto, analiso quartas capas, orelhas, prefácios, posfácios e notas. O nível de participação do tradutor na utilização desses elementos é também examinado, para que se possa averiguar até que ponto esse intermediador de culturas teve visibilidade nas publicações. A referida análise é norteada, principalmente, pelos fundamentos teóricos de Gérard Genette, sobretudo em seu livro intitulado Paratextos Editoriais (2009), do original Seuils (1987).Abstract : This thesis analyzes paratextual elements in Edgar Allan Poe's Brazilian anthologies of short stories published or reprinted in the first twelve years of the 21st century, observing how the author and his fictional writings are presented to the reader through those paratexts. Thus, I analyze back pages, flaps, forewords, afterwords, and notes. The use the translator made of those elements is examined in order to assess the translator's visibility in the published editions. The referred analysis is grounded mainly on Gérard Genette's theory, especially in his book entitled Editorial Paratexts (2009) from the original Seuils (1987)
Letter to the Editor from the author, and response from Edgar Allen Beem, on Bee
No full textLetter to the Editor from the author, and response from Edgar Allen Beem, on Beem\u27s book review of Maine: An Explorer\u27s Guide and his comparison of it to Maine Handbook
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