The Sexual Citizen

Weeks, Jeffrey

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“…As with the contemporary discourses of social exclusion, traditional narratives of citizenship cannot fully comprehend the kinds of 'rights' that the participants are arguing for. A number of sexuality theorists have, however, begun to develop the concept of citizenship in a way that is more applicable to our participants' experiences (Plummer, 1995;Richardson, 1998;Weeks, 1998). In short, they emphasise that participation in citizenship is, in many ways, premised on being heterosexual (Donovan, Heaphy and Weeks, 1999).…”

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confidence: 99%

Policy Implications of Ageing Sexualities

Heaphy¹,

Yip²

2006

Social Policy & Society

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Policy Implications of Ageing Sexualities

Heaphy¹,

Yip²

2006

Social Policy & Society

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“…Weeks writes that the sexual citizen is a hybrid being, who tells us a great deal about political and cultural transformation and new possibilities of the self and identity. 13 Political theorists writing about citizenship have identified two aspects of citizenship. The first is about rights, such as equal access to institutions and equal status before the law.…”

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Fashion and Sexual Identity, or why Recognition Matters

Brennan

2011

Fashion ‐ Philosophy for Everyone

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Why should political philosophers think about fashion? What is political about our individual style and fashion choices? I am a feminist political philosopher who is interested in exploring questions about the political and ethical significance of fashion in the context of debates about sexual citizenship, identity politics, and rights to recognition. My thoughts in this area are shaped partly by debates about the political strategy of visibility in advancing the cause of gay, lesbian, and bisexual equality and partly by my own personal experiences in the area of sexual orientation and fashion. By the end of the exploration I hope to have persuaded you that political philosophers ought to think about fashion and its implications and that fashion raises some difficult and interesting questions in political philosophy.In a way it is odd to think about fashion in the context of political philosophy because philosophers as a group have not taken fashion at all seriously. Indeed, there is a remarkable degree of disdain in the attitude of philosophers to such trivial, superficial, and unworthy matters as clothing, footwear, and hairstyles (to name just three areas in which standards of fashion are thought to apply).This chapter talks about fashion in the broad sense insofar as it is concerned with how we dress and adorn ourselves. I do not reserve talk of fashion for "high fashion" or cutting edge, runway worthy fashion. But I am not so broad as to include all aspects of our lives to which fashionable standards might apply. One can talk about fashionable noses (in a world where cosmetic surgery is common) or fashionable ideas or fashionable neighborhoods. These fashionable things are beyond the scope of this essay. So it is both "low" and "high" fashion that interests me but I restrict my interests to clothing and footwear choices, make up, and hairstyles.In an essay in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia called "Dressing Down, Dressing up: The Philosophic Fear of Fashion," Karen Hanson takes on philosophers' fear of fashion. She notes that the disdain for talking about clothing is interesting, and almost certainly gendered, since philosophers have no difficulty conversing about food, music, and household furnishings. 1 At a dinnertime gathering of philosophers the conversation is as likely to be about wine or recent films as it is to be about abiding philosophical problems. While these are allowed as acceptable topics for discussion among academics, what to wear to a faculty council meeting and the reception at the president's house that follows is not. 2 Raising the topic of what this summer's dresses will be like or what one thinks of the clothes featured in a particular television show, say Mad Men, for example, is even worse. One who dares broach the topic will have confessed an interest in a subject that the group agrees bespeaks vanity or worse. Thomas H.Benton, in his account of trying to dress formally as a professor, accounts for the hostility towards thinking about fashion in terms of income: "Professor...

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“…Thus the emphasis should be placed firmly on equivalence while openness and emotional disclosure are essential parts of the relationship. In line with this, Turkish students understood friendships as strong bonds built on commitment, responsibility and mutual respect (Weeks 1998), where reciprocity is an integral part of the relationship.…”

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‘Most Challenging? To Fit in with People While Remaining Myself.’ Social Integration of Second Generation Turks within the Dutch Higher Education Setting

Pásztor

2014

Sociological Research Online

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By focusing on second generation Turks in the Netherlands the paper aims to study the role of friends and peers in terms of 'fitting in' to a higher education setting. In-depth interviews with Turkish higher education students and recent graduates confirm the existence of certain 'coping strategies' which ethnic minority students employ in order to integrate into the social fabric of their university or college. Social integration is usually achieved through joining existing networks of ethnic minority students, creating new networks, or simply, keeping 'old' high school friends throughout university. However, in some cases students are willing to change their course, institution or type of study in order to improve their experience, all pointing to the high importance of social integration for many.

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The Sexual Citizen

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