G.S. Rousseau

Bio: G.S. Rousseau is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 115 citations.

The Absent Presence: Negative Space within Discourse and the Construction of Minority Sexual Identity in the Workplace

Abstract: Sexuality and the experience of sexual minorities in the workplace are under-researched areas. The research reported here - a case study in one government department in the UK - utilizes a discursive research method to uncover a theme that is at the centre of this experience - silence. In-depth semi-structured interviews were carried out with individuals eliciting their stories on their experience as lesbians and gay men in the workplace, and these stories were then used to promote more general discussion within focus groups. Understanding silence in the research process with relation to both the researcher and the respondent was found to be vital for research in this area, and the article raises issues to do with uncovering previously silenced voices. Silence also emerged as a recurrent theme in the research and found that there were many ways in which this silence can play an integral role in organizational discourse and the creation of social identity. We have therefore suggested that silence could be ...

School as a Context for "Othering" Youth and Promoting Cultural Assets.

Abstract: Background/ContextSchools are cultural contexts that have the power and potential to promote students’ cultural assets or “other” youth in a way that keeps them from creating meaningful academic id...

Society, Biology, and Ecology: Bringing Nature Back Into Sociology’s Disciplinary Narrative Through Critical Realism

Abstract: This article represents both a continuance and a reformulation of an ongoing project: a call to sociology proper to “bring nature back in.” Moving beyond such earlier heuristics as Demeritt’s “conj...

Aesthetic surgery as false beauty

Abstract: This article identifies a prevalent strand of feminist writing on beauty and aesthetic surgery and explores some of the contradictions and inconsistencies inscribed within it. In particular, we con...

The Blackwell guide to literary theory

Abstract: Part I: Introduction: Part II: The Rise of Literary Theory: Timeline Part III: Scope of Literary Theory Critical Theory: Cultural Studies Deconstruction Ethnic Studies Feminist Theory Gender and Sexuality Marxist Theory Narrative Theory New Criticism New Historicism Postcolonial Studies Postmodernism Poststructuralism Psychoanalysis Reader-Response Theory Structuralism and Formalism Part IV: Key Figures in Literary Theory: Theodor Adorno Louis Althusser Mikhail Bahktin Roland Barthes Jean Baudrillard Walter Benjamin Homi Bhabha Pierre Bourdieu Judith Butler Hazel Carby Helene Cixous Teresa De Lauretis Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari Paul De Man Jacques Derrida Terry Eagleton Frantz Fanon Stanley Fish Michel Foucault Henry Louis Gates Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar Stephen Greenblatt Stuart Hall Donna Haraway bell hooks Linda Hutcheon Luce Irigaray Wolfgang Iser Fredric Jameson Julia Kristeva Jacques Lacan Jean-Francois Lyotard J Hillis Miller Edward Said Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Elaine Showalter Gayatri Chakavorty Spivak Raymond Williams Slavoj Zizek Part V: Reading with Literary Theory: William Shakespeare, Tempest John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness James Joyce, Ulysses Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God W B Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" Samuel Beckett, Endgame Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus Conclusion: How to Read Theory Recommendations for Further Study Glossary Index