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.
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.
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.
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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
