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Capitalism and Heterosexuality, 2005.
A discussion of the relationship between capitalism and heterosexuality.
2,976 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 87.95
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An essay that illustrates the connection and the perpetuation of heterosexuality via capitalism; how capitalism reinforces people to be heterosexually-minded and, essentially, continue the flow of capital by keeping the family system intact; thus, it is the generation money by "reproductive organs".
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"Is there a parallel link between capitalism and heterosexuality? Is the fact that, coming from a family and essentially having a heterosexual, reproductive inclinations eventually tied to the work force of capitalist enterprise? Considering Angels in America: Perestroika I will attempt to reveal how heterosexuality has been appropriated as a tool for capitalism. This will be done by analyzing the processes and the development of concepts of 'homosexuality', 'queerness' 'heterosexuality' and 'capitalism'. First, I will inquire into the history of homosexuality and heterosexuality and then, I will continue with contemporary reflections on how these ideas are described in current literary circles. For the conclusion, I will propose a parallelism between capitalism and heterosexuality which are complimentary to each other both for social order and for the perpetuation of capital industry."
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Compulsory Heterosexuality, 2002.
Studies the concept of compulsory heterosexuality through the eyes of two different subjects.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper will apply theoretical models of compulsory heterosexuality to an analysis of real-world experiences as exemplified in a high school dance experienced by the author. Later these same experiences will be mediated through the consciousness of an imaginary homosexual female subject of Chinese descent. It will be argued that compulsory heterosexuality functions on a variety of levels and cannot be interpreted simply as a Western or European construct. Rather, as much as with patriarchy, its reach is global and subtly pervasive.
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Homosexuality vs. Heterosexuality in Hemingway's "In Our Time", 2008.
A review of Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories, "In Our Time".
1,132 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at how Ernest Hemingway explores homosocial relationships between men in the book, "In Our Time." The paper explains that the homosocial interactions between the males in the stories are given more importance than the heterosexual interactions between the males and females. The paper looks at how Hemingway seems to show a particularly strong interest in the relationship between two good male friends, displaying their exchanges and affections for each other in a non-sexual manner. The paper points out that in the story "The End of Something," Nick breaks up with Marjorie because she is too masculine and does everything with him, or because he isn't getting a chance to spend enough time with Bill. The paper also explains that most of the time close relationships between males are interpreted as homosexual, but Hemingway has introduced a different level of male bonding.
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"The role of heterosexuality is also important in this story, along with others in the collection. There is always a female presence that complements the male characters, but usually the relationship is portrayed with a strain. For example, in "The End of Something," Nick molds Marjorie into a more masculine, tomboy kind of person so that she does everything he does. While it is this exact trait that turns him off from her. The fact that she began doing everything with him, and her lack of femininity turns him away contradicting the fact that he wanted her to be that way in the first place. In the story when Nick informs Marjorie that there will be a full moon and she says she knows, his annoying is evident and he insists that she knows everything, implying that nothing is fun or interesting to talk about because she already knows everything (page 34)."
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HBO's"Oz" and the Immutability of Heterosexuality, 2008.
An analysis of Joe Wlodarz' article 'Maximum Insecurity: Genre Trouble and Closet Erotics In and Out of HBO's "Oz"' in "Camera Obscura 58".
2,010 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper relates that Joe Wlodarz, in his article, 'Maximum Insecurity: Genre Trouble and Closet Erotics In and Out of HBO's "Oz"', analyzes the interplay between genre and sexuality in the HBO television program, "Oz". The author explains that, in an attempt at a Foucauldian reading of the series, Wlodarz succeeds and fails in making a point about the notion of seeing sexual acts as an epistemological guarantee of identity. The paper also points out that, ultimately, Wlodarz falls prey to some of the same assumptions he is arguing against. The author underscores that, by queering the genre of prison drama by describing it as soap opera, he also queers the very identities he is trying to examine based upon the 'queer' acts that they are performing. The paper argues that seeing these acts as 'queer' is an instance of submitting to the same epistemological fallacy that Wlodarz seems to be working so hard to undermine.
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"Wlodarz writes that even in the 'love story' scenario between two of the main characters in "Oz", there are no loving sex scenes, no space between these men where sex is used as a resolution, or a place of comfort. Wlodarz argues that this is an indicator that "the series refuses to contain sexuality, to limit sexual identity, or to suggest that romantic and / or sexual relations are anything less than dangerous and destabilizing." I would argue, instead, that this portrayal of the sexual activity between men who call themselves straight and who only have sex with women when they have the option shows that they are indeed straight, despite the biological sex of the bodies of their partners."
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Heterosexual Deviance, 2004.
An overview of deviant behavior with a specific emphasis on heterosexual deviant behavior.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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This paper discusses heterosexual deviance as a category of social behavior. The paper defines the term "deviance" as a behavior that meets with social disapproval or punishment by society as they violate a social or moral code of conduct and discusses stalking and pedophilia as examples of heterosexual deviant behavior.
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"Thio notes that the term deviance refers to a broad and changing category of social behavior. He defines it as any behavior that meets with social disapproval or punishment by members of a society and or of a smaller social group. Deviant behaviors are those behaviors that society considers to be bad, evil, sinful criminal, insane or even rude. According to Thio, deviance is likely to produce some social efforts to punish and or control the deviant individual."
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Homosexual and Heterosexual Rights, 2002.
Examines how homosexual civil rights differ from heterosexual rights, using works by Hobbes, Kant and Locke to explore the issue.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will consider the question as to whether or not homosexuals ought to have the same civil and contractual/legal rights as heterosexual persons. This paper will explore this by analyzing, through moral philosophy, a rationale for the difference between heterosexuals and homosexuals and specifically, for the ways these differences are used to deny rights to legal marriage, adoption of children and/or custody of children and to share as a legal partner in loss and insurance claims. Moral theory might help to frame an inquiry into how this works, in a civil society. To explore this, with the intention of arriving at an answer to the question, we will first refer to Hobbes' arguments for a law of social contracts, followed by a consideration of Kant's moral imperatives and concluding with a closer reading of Locke's notes on identity and diversity.
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Non-Heterosexual Marriage, 2002.
This paper discusses non-heterosexual marriage from the perspective of a case for civil liberty.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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This paper states that gay marriage must be allowed because of its necessity according to the dictates of natural liberty and civil justice. The author believes that, as long as marriage is a civil contract by which rights are allocated across the citizenry, rather than being a strictly social-religious ritual, then it must be available to all. The paper points our that the right of gay marriage has been likened to problems in the past with interracial marriage and female rights of inheritance, both cases that have been shown to be most unjust and immoral in their application to citizens.
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"He continues to explain that the only end for which mankind is warranted in interfering with the liberty of action of other humans is for immediate self-protection. Homosexual lifestyles and homosexual committed relationships are not a direct threat to anyone?s physical well being. They are simply, at worst, an immoral or repulsive set of activities that must be tolerated in the name of liberty. (Personally, I find homosexuality to be neither repulsive nor immoral, but remember that we have ceded that point briefly to the opposition for sake of moving on to the point of civil liberties) Most importantly, those who practice these non-threatening behaviors must be afforded the same rights of self-determination as mainstream individuals."
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A Different Way of Life, 2004.
Compares and contrasts heterosexuality, homosexuality, asexuality, and bisexuality.
1,123 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 38.95
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In the past, heterosexuality was seen as the normal sexual orientation for most people. All other types of sexuality, such as bisexuality, asexuality, and homosexuality were seen as deviant forms of sexual behavior. However, in recent years, these lifestyles have become more accepted by society. This paper illustrates the lifestyles and possible explanations for different sexual orientations for the purpose of comparing and contrasting them with heterosexuality.
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"Bisexuality is defined as being the ?sexual attraction to people of both sexes? (Macionis 2002:202). Kinsey believed that almost everyone, regardless of sexual orientation has had some sort of both heterosexual and homosexual experiences and that there were very few people who were exclusively heterosexual or homosexual. McWhirter (1990) suggests that a person is not attracted to two different sexes at the same time, but goes through phases in which he or she will be attracted to different sexes at different times, depending on what pleases their present mood or sexual desires. So, in theory, bisexualism is neither just homosexual nor heterosexual, but it is both types of sexual orientation, just apparent at different times (McWhirter 1990:255-256)."
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Homo and Hetero, 2004.
A look at the way society determines the conflict between homosexuality and heterosexuality.
2,985 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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Sexual preference has long been a topic of debate among contemporaries. For many years, the homosexual lifestyle has been shunned and a source of shame for many lesbian and gay individuals. This paper explains how, in recent years, however, there has been an increase in the acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle and the culture that surrounds this lifestyle. Many argue that this acceptance has begun to conflict with heterosexuality. This paper determines to what extent lesbian and gay culture presents an opposition to heterosexuality.
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"The role of lesbians in gays in our society has a profound impact on the conflict between homosexuals and heterosexuals. The truth of the matter is that many lesbians and gays enjoy many of the same things that heterosexual people enjoy. In recent years the presence of homosexuals on television and in the workforce has become more pronounced. The military still promotes a policy of ?don?t ask, don?t tell? but there are many homosexuals that serve in the various branches of the armed services. Indeed the role of lesbians and gays in our society is well established and it seems that these roles are destined to expand with time."
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Dating Communication Among Gay Couples, 2002.
This paper examines communication between gay couples through the lens of how it affects, and is affected by, imposed heterosexuality within the society at large.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 12 sources, $ 71.95
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The paper emphasizes that the patriarchal society narrows the parameters within which gay couples' communication can occur, since it socially constructs gender roles and sexual orientation. The essay argues that it is the communication between gay couples that serves as the stepping-stone for society to become more inclusionary toward same-sex orientation.
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"Sex in the City", 2005.
A look at the construction of modern heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual identities in the television sitcom, ?Sex in the City?.
898 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explores the message in "Sex and the City" about heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality and gender and how the show suggests that heterosexual women can engage in equally fluid and commercialized constructions of identity, as do homosexual men.
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"Are the ladies of ?Sex in the City? heterosexual women or homosexual men? Although the answer may seem obvious, the rampant sexual play and obsessive quality regarding sexual performance on the part of the women, their love of shopping and definition of themselves through conspicuous consumerism, and the overall aesthetic of the show?s sense of sexual and pop cultural ?camp? might suggest that Charlotte, Carrie, Samantha, and Miranda are in fact drag queens rather than actual Manhattan, urban, female apartment dwellers. At one point, in an episode entitled, ?Boy Girl, Boy Girl,? Charlotte is photographed in drag as a man. In another episode Charlotte attempts to enter the lesbian art mafia. Breathless about her new found discovery of her latent, non-heterosexual drives and the ability to be around intelligent women unconcerned with male, she is brutally informed, in far more blunt and anatomical terms than one would like to quote in this paper, that if she does not consume a particular part of the female anatomy, she remains ostracized from homosexual identity."
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Labeling Self as Gay or Bisexual, 2005.
This paper discusses the difficulties with labelling oneself as homosexual in contrast to a person who is heterosexual.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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In this article, the writer points out that heterosexual youth rarely are faced with the challenge of labeling their sexuality. The writer maintains that they simply mature along a natural normal course of heterosexuality without typically questioning their feelings their desires. However, the writer discusses that for those whose sexuality falls outside the norm this process is not so easy. Gay or bisexual youths must go through an internal process of defining who they are sexually. The writer shows that this process is typically not an isolated event but is embedded within a progressive series of milestones for gay and bisexual youths.
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"Heterosexual youth rarely are faced with the challenge of labeling their sexuality. They simply mature along a natural, "normal" course of heterosexuality without typically questioning their feelings, their desires. However, for those whose sexuality lies outside the norm, this process is not so easy. Gay or bisexual youths must go through an internal process of defining who they are sexually. This process is typically not "an isolated event but is embedded within a progressive series of milestones for gay and bisexual youths". This often complicated process is unique for each individual; however, certain themes emerge dependent on the age in which the individual finally labels himself as gay or bisexual. Few gay or bisexual men can pinpoint a specific and identifiable event that was the catalyst for self-identifying as gay or bisexual."
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A Comic Struggle: Reinventing the Nuclear Family, 2005.
A look at so called queer films in relation to the heterosexual nuclear family, and how homosexual relationships are changing the makeup of the traditional nuclear family.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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The reinforcement of a heterosexual paradigm dominant in the first gay films was very much criticised by the media. This criticism failed to recognise that 'Dona Herlinda and Her Son' and 'The Wedding Banquet' are movies situated within the realms of heterosexual norms, but movies such as Gus van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho' and Jonathan Demme's 'Philadelphia' were radically changing queer filmic representation.
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"Critics are quick to attack the reinforcement of a heterosexual paradigm dominant in early queer films. However, this judgment forgets that while more mainstream films, such as 'Dona Herlinda and Her Son' and 'The Wedding Banquet', were situated within heterosexual norms, a new queer cinema was slowly but surely radically changing queer filmic representation. The success of Gus van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho' and Jonathan Demme's 'Philadelphia' could be in part attributed to simultaneous comic representations of queer struggles. So, while American culture was preoccupied with a single queer struggle, the AIDS crisis, other cultures explored the impact of homosexuality on the family unit and on reproduction in particular."
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Domestic Violence, 2004.
Report on heterosexual domestic violence using criminological research methods.
1,983 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This is a research report, which focuses mainly on the methods of obtaining information in an intimate heterosexual domestic violence dispute. The research supported the paper's position that males are more likely to be the aggressor in a domestic violence setting, but notes the fact that women have, as of late, begun to be arrested at the scene of domestic disputes as either aggressor or as a co-aggressive participant.
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"In a violent dispute situation, it was the assumption by most that men, in the majority of cases, posed a greater threat to women. But, soon after arrests became the norm, women began to get arrested for domestic violence. Except for a minor number of scenarios, history shows that women pose a far less risk to their male counterparts. ?Mandatory arrest and the use of civil restraining orders without proper criminal sanctions are assuredly flawed solutions for preventing the complex enigma of domestic violence. Americans have historically objected to the government's attempt to legislate what they consider their private morality or family problems.? (Davis, 1998) Upon arriving on a scene, police must treat each case as a new individual event."
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Male Victims of Abuse, 2006.
This paper studies heterosexual males and abusive relationships.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper explores the behavior patterns of heterosexual males who have experienced abusive relationships. The dynamics of the abusive relationship and decisions made by the males to remain in the relationship are of significant interest, as understanding these relationships shall help in establishing empathy with male victims of abuse during the communications processes. The paper explains that this is achieved through a study of the literature on abuse.
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"Abuse and sexual partnerships have been studied in the behavioral sciences, both as a means of understanding why persons in abusive relationships remain willing to participate in a negative relationship and to attempt to find strategies to help provide solutions for the abuser and victim. Traditionally, the literature on abusive relationships has focused on heterosexual partnerships in which the male is the abuser or on homosexual partnerships in which one male abuses the other. Abusive heterosexual relationships in which the female is the abuser and the male is the victim is studied with less frequency, in large part because relationship dynamics of this nature are fewer in number than other forms of relationship abuse (Das Dasgupta, 2002)."
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