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ERIC Number: ED650025
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 322
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-3575-6916-5
ISSN: N/A
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Making and (Un)Making Queer Womanhood at a Southern University
Brittany R. Closson-Pitts
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Florida State University
Postsecondary institutions are viewed as spaces where students can become exposed to different ways of thinking and "being" beyond their own subjective experiences (Gortmaker & Brown, 2006). Research has suggested that college-going queer women often characterize their universities as places where they can "be themselves" and find their voices as sexual and/or gender minorities (Valentine, Wood, & Plummer, 2009). However, Formby (2017) and Rushbrook (2002) argue that these voices are often homogenized in postsecondary contexts, situating queer womanhood as a singular, universal entity while minimizing the presence of intersectional queer identities on campus (Goldman, 1996; Crenshaw, 1989; Ghabrial, 2016). This ethnographic study seeks to disrupt such narratives of homogeneity by exploring the complexities of queer womanhood at Florida State University, consequently mobilizing the postsecondary institution as a context characterized by simultaneous norms of inclusion and exclusion. This research will situate queer undergraduate women's lived experiences as sites for unpacking the hybridity of campus culture, relying on interviews, focus groups, social media observations, multi-media responses, and photo journals to explore this relationship between the postsecondary context and students' "lived" experiences and identity construction. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida
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