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Item Destabilizing science from the right : the rhetoric of heterosexual victimage in the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS controversy(2009-05) Mack, Ashley N.; Cloud, Dana L.; Brummett, Barry, 1951-In this project, I am interrogating discourse surrounding the 2008 WHO/UNAIDS controversy, which both preceded and followed the publication of an article in the U.K. newspaper The Independent. The article reported that the head of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS initiative admitted that the threat of an AIDS pandemic among heterosexuals was “officially” over. These texts are particularly important for such an endeavor because, as I will argue below, the controversy enables both “AIDS” and “heterosexuality” to operate as floating signifiers whose meanings are contested in public discourse in ways that ultimately reinforce heterosexual privilege and under-attention to the AIDS crisis. In the end, the destabilization of the meaning of HIV/AIDS does not serve emancipatory ends. Although the destabilization of meaning is the emancipatory gesture ‘par excellence’ for the poststructuralist tradition, my investigation shows that the destabilization of meaning in the WHO controversy actually results in the reification of master narratives.Item La création de la masculinité: la mise en scène du queer genre et l’usurpation raciale(Conference paper presented at "Norms and Counter-norms: Sexualities and Women's De/humanization", University of Paris, Diderot, June 15, 2007., 2007-06) Richardson, MattItem Say it With Your Other Self: Analyzing the Polyphonic Metanarratives of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness(2022) Epstein, Skylar; Richmond-Garza, ElizabethRadclyffe Hall used the events of Oscar Wilde’s 1891-1895 libel trials to strategically craft the literary strategies she employed in her 1928 novel, The Well of Loneliness. Hall used the arguments made during Wilde’s trial to preemptively address the attacks she expected to weather in her own literary obscenity trial. She used these legal arguments, in addition to the melodramatic, bildungsroman, carnivalesque, and polyphonic frameworks to ensure that The Well of Loneliness saw both creative and political success. Additionally, Hall extended the political afterlife of The Well of Loneliness by inserting her public persona into the novel’s metanarrative. Hall utilized her public persona to complete the Bildungsroman cycle that legal restrictions prevented her from fully realizing within the text of The Well of Loneliness.