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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.

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Author:   Tiffany Jones
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.416kg
ISBN:  

9783031237553

ISBN 10:   3031237552
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Euphorias! Positive Feelings Within Negative Conditions2. Why Be Euphorically Queer? An Ecological Model of Euphorias' Influences & Impacts3. Education-based Euphorias! How Happiness & Comfort for LGBTQ+ People in Education Evolves4. LGBTQ+ Youth Euphorias! Stop-Start Shifts in LGBTQ+ Youth Happiness & Comfort5. LGBTQ+ Professionals' Euphorias! Site-specific Shifts in LGBTQ+ Education Staff's Happiness & Comfort6. LGBTQ+ Parents' Euphorias! Consistencies in LGBTQ+ parents' Happiness & Comfort7. Intersex Euphorias! Positive Experiences of Intersex Variations on and After Diagnoses8. Setting Euphoria Agendas? What We Know and Need to Know

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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.

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