Interrogating the Use of Lgbtq Slurs - Still Smearing the Queer?

Interrogating the Use of LGBTQ Slurs provides a critical exploration of LGBTQ slurs through its innovative focus on hetero-cis-normativity and Norm-Centered Stigma Theory (NCST), the first ever testable theory about stigma.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Defining and Explaining LGBTQ Slur Use
Chapter 3: LGBTQ Slur Usage and Norm-Centered Stigma Theory
Chapter 4: "Fag"/"Faggot"
Chapter 5: "Dyke"
Chapter 6: "Tranny"
Chapter 7: "Queer"
Chapter 8: "No Homo"
Chapter 9: "That's So Gay!"
Chapter 10: Key Findings and Implications
Appendix

About the author

Meredith G. F. Worthen, Ph.D. (the University of Texas at Austin, 2009), is a Professor of Sociology, elected faculty member of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and faculty affiliate of the Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma. Her main interests are in the sociological constructions of deviance and stigma, gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ identities, as well as feminist and queer criminology. She is the author of Queers, Bis, and Straight Lies: An Intersectional Investigation of LGBTQ Stigma (Routledge, 2020) and more than fifty academic pieces.

Summary

Interrogating the Use of LGBTQ Slurs provides a critical exploration of LGBTQ slurs through its innovative focus on hetero-cis-normativity and Norm-Centered Stigma Theory (NCST), the first ever testable theory about stigma.

Product details

• Authors: Meredith Worthen, Meredith (The University of Oklahoma Worthen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781032269245
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226924-5
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Queering Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Social, group or collective psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Violence in society, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Violence and abuse in society, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics