Chris VanderStouwe
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chris VanderStouwe is involved.
Articles
2015 Combating privilege, regulating language: The struggle to create and maintain university safe spaces Who’s really normal? Language and sexuality in public space, Hiramoto, Mie (ed.), pp. 272–287 | Article
Despite recent claims that (public) gay spaces as we know them no longer need to exist (Aguirre-Livingston 2011), many queer scholars have shown that this is not historically the case (e.g. Manalansan 2003). In order to examine the issue of language and sexuality in public spaces, this paper uses… read more
2013 Religious victimization as social empowerment in discrimination narratives from California’s Proposition 8 campaign Journal of Language and Sexuality 2:2, pp. 235–261 | Article
One of the premier social issues in contemporary US politics is that of same-sex marriage. This research explores language use and identity construction by same-sex marriage supporters through narratives of discrimination. This paper analyzes data collected through the non-profit Marriage Equality… read more