Abstract Charles Darwin's Descent of Man was suffused with questions courtship, mating and sex. Following in his footsteps, biologists throughout the twentieth century interrogated sexual behaviour humans animals. This paper charts fate evolutionary theories sexuality to argue that – despite legal social gains past when used selection as a tool for theorizing evolution homosexual (which happene...

Cold War military remnants and experiences have recently been turned into museums tourist attractions in many European countries. Recognizing such memory making as essentially political, we examine the role of gender sexuality a heritage. Combining critical feminist intersectional research with perspectives on memory, this article contributes to conceptualizations relationship between gendered ...

From Descartes’ cogito to the postmodern fluidity, notion of identity has acquired newer dimensions. Identity remains an important rhetorical resource for non-heterosexual people. Butler’s gender as performative been fundamental in this discourse on queer people who debunk compulsory heterosexuality a given. An exploration spaces that non-heteronormative occupy is pertinent understanding lived ...

Abstract This article stages a dialogue between Jean-Luc Nancy’s postphenomenology and Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology to examine the conditions, ethos, politics of world creation as well habits, obstacles, inequalities that resist it. It argues understanding sense event mutual exposure bodies reveals what exceeds dominant worldviews, how extend beyond prevailing spatializations, but it does n...

Current feminisms have emphasized the systematic nature of women’s oppression. Feminist scholars like Luce Irigaray insist that woman’s difference and otherness is a matter of male-dominated institutional definition: because the woman is theoretically subordinated to the concept of masculinity, she is seen and objectified by the man as his opposite, described as an absence, a lack, and, most no...

Lesbians are said to feel excluded by sexual health messages that presume heterosexuality, a finding linked to lower levels of Papanicolaou (Pap) testing. This paper discusses a small, focused qualitative study based in Calgary, Canada that illuminated mid-life lesbians' experiences and perceptions of Pap testing and health. Participants indicated that they felt compelled and invited to access ...

This article showcases how a feminist perspective provides novel insights into the relations between military heritage/history and national security politics. We argue that analysing gender sexualities operate at heritage sites reveals these operations dis/encourage particular understandings of limit range acceptable protection policies. Two recent initiatives to preserve Cold War period in Swe...