Award Name
First-Year Award Winner
Award Date
2019
Faculty Sponsor
Glenn Simshaw
Description/Abstract
My research focuses on how society constructs gender and sexuality by analyzing how both academics and the media react to Donald Trump’s deviations from normative, hyper-masculine behavior. Currently, society reads his non-normative rhetoric and actions through a heteronormative lens and therefore characterize him as a homosexual. I believe this characterization is both demeaning to the queer community and also not accurate. Instead, it is clear to me that his deviations mark him as having homosocial tendencies, which is more accurate and less problematic.
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Recommended Citation
Mei, Jessica, "Through the Looking Glass: Donald Trump, Heteronormativity and Homosociality" (2019). 2019 Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award. 5.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cclura_2019/5
