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Certain queer theorists argue that gay men and lesbians are banned from military service in certain countries not due to a fear of otherness. Instead, they are prohibited from serving precisely because of a fear that the opposite might be true -- that introducing openly gay people into a 'homosocial' environment might destabilize accepted notions of sexuality among members of the service who presently constitute themselves as heterosexual. This article explores that idea in the context of the Report of the Homosexual Policy Assessment Team established to defend exclusion of openly gay people from military service in the United Kingdom. The Report justified the continued exclusion of openly gay service members (a ban subsequently dropped), by arguing that this would provoke a hostile, violent reaction from non-homosexual military personnel, undermining 'unit cohesion.' By subjecting the Report to what Janet Halley describes as an aggressive, unsympathetic reading, this article reveals a hidden rationale. The hidden rationale is that categories of sexual identity are inherently unstable and that acceptance of openly-acknowledged homosexual conduct could cause an increase is homosexual activity or acknowledgement of homosexual or bisexual desires among personnel previously regarded as heterosexual. The article argues that this hidden rationale of the authors of the military report ironically intersects with beliefs of so-called 'queer theorists,' who refuse to accept notions of fixed and unchanging categories of sexuality. The UK military may share a belief that categories of sexual identity are not inherent, but rather malleable and indeterminate.

"Preface As global project managers we continually have to fight against ever-changing currents of project stakeholder management, scope management, knowledge management, schedule management, resource management, and above all team management. As global project managers we have to strategize and find plausible solutions in a timely fashion to all events that endanger our project's feasible direction. Finding timely solutions to challenging events becomes more difficult in a global project environment. In this book I outline 82 challenging cases that I encountered during my global project management career all over the world. I analyze each case by detailing the issue, how I strategized and approached it for a solution, what the solution was, and what I learned from that case. As I became more experienced in project management, the quantity of challenging events in a project decreased. Lessons learned from each surprising event or personal mistake transformed me into a more careful and more detailed project manager. The benefits from this book can make a global project manager more proactive, more careful, more disciplined, and ready for sudden and similar surprises that can affect his or her project. Project cases detailed in this book will support and guide your strategizing process during execution of global projects. Lessons learned are summarized after every case. vi i i Preface"--

In response to legislative changes intended to better facilitate justice for child/victims, the Child Abuse Review Team is an interorganizational innovation implemented to promote formal information exchange between children's aid societies, police services, victim/witness programme and the crown attorney's office. Microsociological findings indicate that DESPITE legislative changes, improved preparation and supports for child/victims, improved co-ordination of information resources for the Crown Attorney's brief, for most cases the truth about a child's sexual victimization is still not heard clearly within the courtroom. A child's level of cognitive and language development is incompatible with legal requirements for hearing evidence. Macrosociological findings suggest medical and legal reluctance toward holding offenders accountable for expressing sexuality with children. Themes of debate about legislative changes polarize around a search for justice and basic rights of an accused to a fair trial which includes the right to confront his accuser. It is suggested that the 'accuser' is not the child/victim, but those mandated to protect the child. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1992 .M256. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 31-04, page: 1597. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1992.