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... are gendered through performative reiteration of social norms informs the discussion of how bodies are shaped as they act in a social-material world. It also shifts the language of Butler’s accounts of performativity by emphasizing the materiality of “social norms”—the fact that we encounter these norms...

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... perception, in dialogue with Linda Martín Alcoff. Judith Butler’s description of how bodies are gendered through performative reiteration of social norms informs the discussion of how bodies are shaped as they act in a social-material world. It also shifts the language of Butler’s accounts of performativity...

... A compilation of Las Vegas weddings and vow renewal ceremonies highlights the role of weddings and marriage in the construction of historically defined social norms, with a special focus on consumer-driven expectations. Las Vegas weddings vow renewals ...

... ruling in Loving v. Virginia on antimiscegenation law. It argues that Indigenous critiques of colonialism challenge social normativities in ways that are deeply misunderstood—or dismissed—by queer anti-normativity efforts as identity politics at its worst. This inadvertently refutes an Indigenous...

... transgression of those values are explored. As the author takes the reader on a 2014 trip to Haydée’s birthplace and childhood home, the protagonist’s early life and young adulthood are revealed. rural Cuba Spanish immigration Orthodox Party sibling love social norms ...

... education, from its inception, was designed for the elites and, later, the white masses to inculcate conformity to social norms. Enslaved African Americans were largely denied learning, and US education for Native, African, and Asian Americans and Latinxs featured segregated, inferior schools...

... turning them inside out, as the narrator learns painfully from both other young boys and the school principal that his uncle’s effeminate ways are far outside social norms, especially in the realm of gendered divisions of labor. Chinese fiction effeminacy nonnormative labor ...

... This chapter explains why the book has used the language of neutrality, instead of the more common term—alienation—to highlight the problems of global labor and social life. Attempting a non-normative analysis with a nonprescriptive ethic, this chapter points out divergent tracks of global life...

... Brazilians had long used Fernando de Noronha’s convict society as a foil to comprehend and define mainland social norms and the meanings of freedom. The Brazilian state’s need for cheap labor for public works, its lack of prison capacity, and the expense of maintaining prisoners separated...

... is a work that brings together “coming-of-age” and “coming-out” narrative conventions. In this way, Huizi offers a framework for reexamining modern China’s rapidly changing notions of social norms and sexual identity. More specifically, it examines the ways in which a newly liberalized political order...

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... in Chicago. The essay argues that desi gay men's desire for community at the turn of the century in Chicago signaled a social formation whose contours were crystallized largely through engagements with normativity. By heeding Roderick Ferguson's call to place normativity front and center, it explores past...

... that animate the social enforcement of normative masculinities as well as the harmful consequences of such enforcement. They ultimately observe that, within the context of Ah mén , dance functions as a site of queer potentiality and thus opens up possibilities for healthier articulations of masculinity...

... that constitute political economy. While various thinkers have considered how human rights might be mobilized “from below,” to interrupt dominant normative and legal schemas, what is at stake in such interventions cannot be grasped without attending to social movements’ actual struggles. More specifically...

... and normative social status is externally constructed and evaluated. The epilogue argues that even the best-intentioned attempts to address the needs of Black girls will fail as long as they continue to discount how young Black women understand their lives, theorize their position in the larger social landscape...

... life changes or sold on the open market as commodities. Pets are required to follow human rules, to fit within our way of life, even adopt our language and social norms. But as multispecies families break down—with major life events like a divorce, a lost job, or a child headed away to college—animals...