Transsexuals’ Embodiment of Womanhood  

Oleh:

Schrock, Douglas ; Reid, Lori

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Gender and society; vol. 19 no. 03 (Jun. 2005), page 317-335.
Topik: embodying gender; transsexuals; sex/gender distinction
Fulltext: 317.pdf (137.29KB)

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This article draws on in-depth interviews with nine white, middle-class, male-to-female transsexuals to examine how they produce and experience bodily transformation. Interviewees’ bodywork entailed retraining, redecorating, and reshaping the physical body, which shaped their feelings, role-taking, and self-monitoring. These analyses make three contributions: They offer support for a perspective that embodies gender, further transsexual scholarship, and contribute to feminist debate over the sex/gender distinction. The authors conclude by exploring how viewing gender as embodied could influence medical discourse on transsexualism and have personal and political consequences for transsexuals.

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