Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Degree Granting Department
Sociology
Major Professor
Sara E. Green, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Sara Crawley, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Donileen Loseke, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Maralee Mayberry, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Allison Carey, Ph.D.
Keywords
Disability, Sexuality, LGBTQ+, Queer Theory, Crip Theory
Abstract
This dissertation is a multi-methodological project that examines the experiences of being both LGBTQ+ and disabled from an intersectional perspective through narratives constructed in virtual spaces. In this project, I address the question ‘how do individuals who identify as both disabled/chronically ill and LGBTQ+ negotiate these often contradictory identities?’ I also complexify this intersectional analysis by examining how LGBTQ+/disabled identities are constructed in relation to race, class, and gender. Additionally, by conducting virtual ethnography as the primary method of data collection, I explore questions pertaining to how members of LBGTQ+ and disability online communities engage in virtual identity construction and virtual community building. Through these projects I seek to bring disability and LGBTQ+ identities into the intersectionality literature and discourse that has frequently excluded, and at times even ignored, these positionalities.
Scholar Commons Citation
Egner, Justine E., "An Intersectional Examination of Disability and LGBTQ+ Identities In Virtual Spaces" (2018). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/7149
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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Other Education Commons, Sociology Commons
