Citations:phobia

English citations of phobia

fear

• 2020 May 1, Nelson L. Dawson, Democracy Betrayed: A History of the Democratic Party from Cotton Plantation to Urban Plantation, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 205:

  Southerners, usually with little provocation, fell back on the Southern phobia of black men raping white women. The result was that even half-hearted Republican anti-lynching efforts met with determined resistance by Southern […]

• 2021 April 28, P.D. Workman, Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 1-10: A Private Eye Mystery/Suspense Series, pd workman, →ISBN:

  It meant he didn't have the time to develop a phobia of gay venues. He would go, nothing bad would happen to him, and his brain would learn that it wasn't an innately dangerous place to be. […]

• 2021 July 2, Tamari Kitossa, Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism, University of Alberta, →ISBN:

  It is a fact that US courts have recognized White women's phobia of Black men as justification for employment compensation (Armour, 1994). This, in effect, gives legal sanction to the psychosexual pathology of White supremacy.

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    1997 June 29, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Critical White Studies, Temple University Press, →ISBN, page 321:

    […] full worker's compensation disability for her phobia of black men after she was attacked by someone she believed to be black. ? This century's efforts to achieve voting rights and school desegregation illustrate the continued presence […]

aversion or dislike (or hatred)

• 2009 06, Michael G. Peletz, Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times, Routledge, →ISBN, page 162:

  For as interviewer Than Win Htut expressed it, “misunderstandings about, and phobia of, gay life and homosexuality are very common in Burma.” Than Win Htut went on to observe that in Burma […]

• 2016 April 14, Veronica E. Bloomfield, Marni E. Fisher, LGBTQ Voices in Education: Changing the Culture of Schooling, Routledge, →ISBN, page 14:

  JENNY I would say homophobia is probably more of an active phobia of gay and lesbian folk and heterosexism is something many people take for granted. Like you said, heterosexual people just assume other people are heterosexual because […]

• 2022 March 10, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 23:

  I maintain that sexism and phobia of queer bodies (homo-, lesbo-, bi-, queer-, trans-, and intersex-phobia) form an inseparable nexus of bio-political oppression around the core mechanisms of patriarchy. I have termed this phobic matrix […]

• 2022 October 5, Ts Candii, Becoming Candii: My True Transgender Story, Kiyziah Vaughn Ts Candii:

  The petty, ruthless, and ignorant poverty of a society with a phobia of transgender people condemns them to absolute poverty, with a lack of money, food, shelter, and health care without feeling the honor of being a human being.

unclear, either fear or aversion

• 2008 10, Amin Ghaziani, The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76:

  The CDC explicated four identified risk factors: male homosexuality, intravenous drug abuse, Haitian origin, and hemophilia. The increase of new diagnoses and deaths aggravated a phobia of gay people. According to the Gay Men's […]

• 2017 April 15, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 1732:

  This line of thinking has been used as a legal argument known as “trans panic,” in which a person defends their having physically attacked or ended the life of a person who is transgender because their phobia of transgender people […]

• 2018 September 25, Marilyn Augustyn, Barry Zuckerman, Zuckerman Parker Handbook of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics for Primary Care, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN:

  Homophobia Dislike or phobia of gay individuals. Nonbinary Someone who identifies as something other than exclusively man/boy or exclusively woman/girl. Queer An umbrella term that can refer to any nonheterosexual sexual orientation or […]

• 2021 June 8, Ingrid Biese, Men Do It Too: Opting Out and In, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 112:

  Interestingly this homophobia is not a phobia of gay men, but of themselves being seen as something other than a 'real man' (Kimmel, 2005). This fear can lead to an exaggeration of masculine stereotypes, sexist behavior towards women as […]

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• 2021 April 19, William Young, The Whole Truth, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

  This phobia of black men having guns is one reason why only 42,000 Afro Americans out of 400,000 who served in World War I were assigned to combat units while the other, over 360,000, served as support labor groups.