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(Re)producing sex/gender normativities: LGB alliance, political whiteness and heteroactivism

 by Helen Clarke Published online: 21 Jan 2024LGB Alliance, as a prime example of gender-critical feminism, argues that the ‘sex-based’ rights of those who are ‘same-sex attracted’ are threatened by the inclusion of trans individuals, and trans lesbians especially. In seeking to exclude trans women

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Artificial intelligibility: the role of gender in assigning humanness to natural language processing systems

by Jenny Carla MoranPublished online: 06 May 2024In place of ‘Artificial Intelligence’, this article proposes artificial intelligibility as the more accurate term for describing the mistaken assignment of humanness to non-living objects. Artificial Intelligibility is manifested when a user assumes

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Enculturating Men, Cultivating Masculinity

by Sam de BoisePages 57-62 | Published online: 16 Apr 2024Very few terms are as fiercely fought over and so readily used but so causally underdeveloped as that of ‘culture’. The concept has a range of different interpretations but can be broadly divided between aesthetic and anthropological uses.

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ALLA PROVA DELLE PASSIONI Sessualità non conformi e soggettività fra età moderna e contemporanea

Il protagonista del volume è l'amore non conforme in quanto emarginato dalla società eteronormativa, di cui si trova esempio nelle otto storie proposte: la rilettura naturalistica del desiderio omosessuale; l’amore tra donne nella letteratura italiana; l’ambiguità e gli specchi nell’arte di

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‘We’re respectful boys … we’re not misogynistic!’: analysing defensive, contradictory and changing performances of masculinity within young men’s in-person and digitally mediated homosocial spaces

by Fiona O’Rourke and Craig HaslopPublished online: 25 Apr 2024This paper situates contemporary manospheric culture within archaic forms of masculine identity formation foundational to patriarchal political orders and fascism. What happens when 21st century emergent masculinity is also what Deleuze

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