The search for place and context: locating strategies of resistance in gay and lesbian subjectivity
dc.contributor | McKnight, Utz Lars | |
dc.contributor | Smith, Joseph L. | |
dc.contributor | Lahiri, Simanti | |
dc.contributor | Petrovic, John E. | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Miller, Ted H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Austin, Gregory Phillip | |
dc.contributor.other | University of Alabama Tuscaloosa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-01T14:36:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-01T14:36:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.description | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is about the nature of community and the substance of individual and collective subjectivity. Specifically, I interrogate the character of gay and lesbian subjectivity by investigating the ways in which the gay or lesbian subject is constituted through the discourse on same-sex marriage and military service. I argue that recasting gay subjectivity uncovers more meaningful ontological possibilities for the emergence of a new description of an individual who has relational and social attachments to a broader community while maintaining fidelity and integrity to descriptions of the self. I argue that gay subjectivity begins as a search for models, a search for examples, and of a representation of the self. Gay subjectivity is about a search for place and context in an environment that views homosexuality as merely a marginal sexual identity. It is in this environment that gay and lesbian subjectivity is produced through a heteronormative discourse that distorts what it means to be gay. I argue that marital equality and unqualified military service successfully fulfill the Foucaultian promise of meaningful resistance which allows for a fuller, more meaningful subjectivity to be embraced by gays and lesbians. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 199 p. | |
dc.format.medium | electronic | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.other | u0015_0000001_0000465 | |
dc.identifier.other | Austin_alatus_0004D_10601 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/970 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | University of Alabama Libraries | |
dc.relation.hasversion | born digital | |
dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations | |
dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections | |
dc.rights | All rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated. | en_US |
dc.subject | Political science | |
dc.title | The search for place and context: locating strategies of resistance in gay and lesbian subjectivity | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | |
dc.type | text | |
etdms.degree.department | University of Alabama. Department of Political Science | |
etdms.degree.discipline | Political Science | |
etdms.degree.grantor | The University of Alabama | |
etdms.degree.level | doctoral | |
etdms.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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