Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations

This Open Access book uses the concept of 'euphoria' to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variations even within repressive and disordering contexts. Drawing on data from multiple online surveys including a study of 2,407 LGBTQ+ people and a study of 272 people with intersex variations, it names and offers a new ecological framework for understanding participants' influences on and barriers to euphorias, asserting the subversive possibilities of being euphorically queer, as opposed to euphoric and queer. The author argues that it is the particularities of negative internal, socio-cultural and institutional contexts for a marginal group or groups that contributes towards the possibilities that shape their potential euphoric feelings and experiences. Ultimately, she calls for a more expansive focus in gender and sexuality studies to show the complex effects of dysphoria and repression on the possibilities of pleasure and joy. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies.

Offers a new ecological model of euphorias to show how they are influenced across individuals' development stages Supplies survey-based data on large lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer cohorts' euphorias Names and compares changes in dominant euphorias for different population sub-groups, focal contexts and over time This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Tiffany Jones is Director of Research and Innovation in the Macquarie School of Education, as well as a sociologist who researches LGBTIQ+ issues in education, health and social policy. Her publications include Including LGBT Parented Families In Schools, Improving Services for Transgender and Gender Variant Youth, A Student-centred Sociology of Education: Voices of Experience, and Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research. She sits on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed academic journals Sex Education, LGBT Health and LGBT Youth.

Klappentext

This Open Access book uses the concept of euphoriä to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variations even within repressive and disordering contexts. Drawing on data from multiple online surveys including a study of 2,407 LGBTQ+ people and a study of 272 people with intersex variations, it names and offers a new ecological framework for understanding participants influences on and barriers to euphorias, asserting the subversive possibilities of being euphorically queer, as opposed to euphoric and queer. The author argues that it is the particularities of negative internal, socio-cultural and institutional contexts for a marginal group or groups that contributes towards the possibilities that shape their potential euphoric feelings and experiences. Ultimately, she calls for a more expansive focus in gender and sexuality studies to show the complex effects of dysphoria and repression on the possibilities of pleasure and joy. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies.

Inhalt

1. Euphorias! Positive Feelings Within Negative Conditions.- 2. Why Be Euphorically Queer? An Ecological Model of Euphorias' Influences & Impacts.- 3. Education-based Euphorias! How Happiness & Comfort for LGBTQ+ People in Education Evolves.- 4. LGBTQ+ Youth Euphorias! Stop-Start Shifts in LGBTQ+ Youth Happiness & Comfort.- 5. LGBTQ+ Professionals' Euphorias! Site-specific Shifts in LGBTQ+ Education Staff's Happiness & Comfort.- 6. LGBTQ+ Parents' Euphorias! Consistencies in LGBTQ+ parents' Happiness & Comfort.- 7. Intersex Euphorias! Positive Experiences of Intersex Variations on and After Diagnoses.- 8. Setting Euphoria Agendas? What We Know and Need to Know.