FIU Psychology Reserch Paper

Your project should reference a minimum of one (1) course readings in an application of one or more theoretical concepts we have explored this semester to a text, issue, or cultural production of your choice. You should include a minimum of two (2) outside sources on the topic, which can be original data collection or other sources you have found in your own research.   Therefore, the paper will have a total of three (3) sources.  Proper research methods using the FIU library website will be discussed in class.

Examples of possible concepts to consider/integrate: 

the sex/gender binary

birth of the “homosexual”

discursive constructions of sexuality

regulation, power, and knowledge

diagnosis, confession, and “truth”

medical science and sexuality – the construction of “normal”

historical context and its role in definition

• passing and trans narratives
• intersectionality – race/class/gender/sexuality
• recognition/visibility of sexual and gender identities (bisexuality & the closet)
• queer politics and the policing of “deviant” bodies and sexualities
• pedophilia, psychosexual development, and polymorphous perversity
• stereotypes and cultural representation
• performativity, drag, and gender identity
• Stonewall and gay liberation
• queer and trans challenges to the legal system
• sodomy and marriage laws
• lesbian feminism, separatism, and trans identities
• materiality of the body
• cyberidentities (sexual and gender)