In his paper, "Qu(e)erying Comic Book Culture and Representations of Sexuality in Wonder Woman," Brian Mitchell Peters proposes that youth culture is responsible for an arbitrary yet highly structured appropriation of what we can call high-contemporary culture. Hence, notions of pop-culture take from the past and use the present to create a highly fluid now, capable of transcending its present ...

The feminist queer theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952–2009) wrote about what it meant to be an “indecent theologian” and claimed that sexual stories from the margins of society can help transform theological issues. What can “indecent theology” mean for the problem of evil specifically as it is addressed in the book of Job? This article will use Althaus-Reid’s creative methodology, which en...

This article examines the theoretical debates that have arisen from the development and subsequent implementation of same-sex partnership legislation in France in 1999. The significance of these debates extends far beyond the specific legislation that triggered them and can be understood as contributing to a far broader analysis of the relevance of traditional French republican ideologies to th...

literary fiction can be criticized and analyzed through different approaches and literary schools. meanwhile, the most attention has been devoted to realism, as the most important and permanent intellectual concern of many writers. iranian modern literary fiction has shown its affection to realism from the beginning, and most of iranian writers have tried to illustrate the social-political situ...

This article offers an overview of academic work that focuses on queer sexualities in Africa and argues that binary categories, particularly those imported from outside Africa, are not adequate for addressing African sexualities.

Following Michel de Certeau’s theory of spatialising, tactical practices of the everyday, Bryan Reynolds and Joseph Fitzpatrick argue for a distinction between “subjective” and “transversal” kinds of territory. Transversality acts to cut across the gridded lines of hegemonic place which serve to bind intelligible subject positions. If the terms of transversal territory can be applied to the pro...