Constructing sexualities: a critical overview of articles published in Feminism and Psychology
- Authors: Marx, Jacqueline , Donaldson, Natalie
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142040 , vital:38044 , DOI: 10.1177/0959353515572704
- Description: How have sexualities been dealt with in articles published in Feminism and Psychology since the inception of the journal in 1991? The idea for this overview arose from our experience of designing a critical sexualities course for graduate students in psychology. The articles featured in this overview form part of a Virtual Special Issue that can be located on the Feminism and Psychology website. Virtual Special Issues (VSI) are collections of previously published articles, which have been compiled by guest editors who are experts in the field. VSIs provide readers with an overview of feminist thought about a topic or theme, as well as an easy way to locate pertinent articles. Scholars who are approaching a new topic may find a VSI especially useful, as will instructors who are preparing course syllabi. This article introduces the Constructing Sexualities VSI.
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Pecha Kucha 2: Race and gender politics in cross-dressing, dressing-up, and drag
- Authors: Marx, Jacqueline
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143926 , vital:38295 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: Sexuality is often less discernible than other markers of identity such as race and gender, which means that its perceptibility is often contingent on strategies that make it visible. Visibility is an especially important dimension in the shaping of lesbian and gay identities because people are generally assumed to be heterosexual. Making gay and lesbian identities visible is also an important political issue for people who have, historically, been threatened by the violence of public erasure. It is this aspect of gay and lesbian subjectivity – the politics of visibility – that is the topic of this presentation. We focus on gender and race politics in dressing-up, cross-dressing and drag performances - practices which make gay and lesbian sexualities visible, and consider the role that race and gender play in diminishing and exacerbating visibility.
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The politics of erasure: thinking critically about anonymity and confidentiality
- Authors: Marx, Jacqueline , Macleod, Catriona I
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143827 , vital:38286 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: Anonymity and confidentiality are prominent features in research ethics codes. In this paper we critically examine the ethical imperative to change or eradicate research participant’s names and the distinctive, individually identifying characteristics of their lives. Drawing on examples from a research ethics application for a project involving women who had extricated themselves from relationships in which they had experienced intimate partner violence, and an ethnographic case study of cross-dressing and drag, consideration is given to the multiple ways in which anonymity and confidentiality can be put to work, both promoting and undermining what it means to do ethical research. We argue that the requirement for anonymity and confidentiality cannot be assessed without taking into account historicity and the socio-political contexts in which a study and its participants are located. The paper concludes with some consideration of the implications of a situated ethics approach for institutional review board protocols.
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- Date Issued: 2015