Abstract In Tipping the Velvet (1998), Sarah Waters explores notion of “gender performativity” as studied by Judith Butler (1990, 1993). Its protagonist, Nancy Astley, becomes aware her sexuality and comes up with doubts about gender responding to stable label society has put on her. This naïve girl moves from performing stage cross-dressing off-stage amid crowds London, not following, Ahmed (2...

This research aims to understand the process that led consecration of butt as a cultural product at time when mass culture in Brazil was expanding and military-corporate dictatorship consolidated political regime heterosexuality. The transformations visibility status city Rio de Janeiro, which followed strengthening tourism, allowed female body incarnated carioca incorporated new models Brazili...

Abstract Though research on the multiethnolect spoken in London—Multicultural London English (MLE)—has described social distribution of variety, stylistic potentials MLE remain poorly understood. This article explores enregisterment and subsequent ‘recontextualisation’ (Bauman & Briggs 1990) by analysing linguistic aesthetic components a identity—the ‘roadman’. Specifically, I explore corpu...

This paper is based on an empirical study using in-depth qualitative interviews that examines how Roman Catholic undergraduate seminarians in the United States understand gender, sexuality and masculinity. The findings describe reject interactionist social constructionist models of rely a strict biological model where sex/gender are seen as unified concept. leads them to adopt “essential male i...

This paper explores the experiences of queer workers in service economy with a focus on hospitality labor. Studies gender, sexuality and labor approached mainstream work as scene compulsory heterosexuality, while literature position has tended to approach terms structural inequalities that prevent from participating market, therefore focused notions diversity inclusion frameworks for understand...

This paper is an examination of identity narratives a small group trans-national transpeople in Australia. We reveal the complex journey undertaken by this group. Transpeople Sub-continental origin consume temporarily transformational negotiating, resisting and subverting dominant discourses that construct heterosexuality, gayness, whiteness femininity. They carve out temporary liminal spaces r...

While sexual consent has been a hot topic during recent years in the Swedish context, there is lack of empirical studies on issue. The aims this study were to analyse how adults Sweden experience and make sense (non)consent encounters, contribute conceptual discussion ‘sexual consent’, especially relation Foucauldian understanding power subjectivity. analysis based 31 interviews with living Swe...