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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"trans studies"”.
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Intimate Allies: Identity, Community, and Everyday Activism Among Cisgender People with Trans-Identified Partners
… white cisgender women who are partnered with trans-identified people on the FTM spectrum. The project addresses the following broad questions: How does being the cisgender partner of a trans person inform complexities around the ability to articulate sexual identity? How are cisgender partners …
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Making Transsexuality Impressive: Narrative Collage and the University of Minnesota Gender Clinic
Archival work in trans studies has a narrative problem. The desire to make trans stories positively politically-enabling erases the experience of trans people for whom the bad feelings of transition including depression, dysphoria, and suicidality cannot be overcome. This thesis takes up narrative …
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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
"Trans Metamorphoses" returns us to the archaic figures that express gender variance in late medieval and early modern literature: the monstrous birth, the virgin, the hermaphrodite, and the angel. Drawing together trans theory, premodern critical race studies, and classical reception history, I …
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(De)composing Transhumanisms: Fungal and Trans Ecologies in Jeff VanderMeer's <em>Annihilation</em>
… by Jeff VanderMeer and situates the biologist’s transformation and transition in the book in a trans ecological framework. By expanding on foundational texts such as Jackson Jesse Nash’s “‘I Am Not Returning Home’: A Transgender Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s <em>Annihilation</em>”, this paper …
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Grammatical Gender and Human Differences in Literature: France and England, 1100-1300
… manner. I call this pessimistic view of gender ‘transgender grammar.’ A range of authors writing in Latin and French explore the relationship between grammatical gender, anatomy, and society in ways that suggest an awareness of this relationship’s provisional nature. The thesis analyses the …
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Standardizing Injustice in Transition-related Medicine?: An Institutional Ethnography of How Assessment Protocols Coordinate Inequitable Access to Hormones and Surgeries in Canada
Transgender (trans) people experience barriers to transition medicine such as cross-sex hormones and sex reassignment surgeries. In response, standardized care protocols, such as the World Professional Association of Transgender Health standards of care (WPATH-SOC), are recommended to improve gaps …
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Relationality and Opacity: Approaching Trans in Cinema
This thesis seeks to attend to modes of trans relationality in cinema. Recent scholarship, most notably by Eliza Steinbock and Cáel M. Keegan, has pictured cinema as a privileged medium for diversifying the range of trans-related effects and affects available to film audiences, exploring how trans …
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From Invisibility to Hypervisibility: Queer Testimonies to the Holocaust Across France and Italy
… queer people. Part III focuses on Italian trans woman Lucy Salani, who survived deportation to the Dachau concentration camp. I begin by studying material of the 2000s and early 2010s, then through the study of unreleased interview footage of Lucy Salani, I come to a conclusion about the …
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Trans history from antiquity for today: reading gender in Imperial Roman literature
… literature of the Roman Empire by erasing the trans potentiality of these texts’ fluid and multifaceted conception of gender. The lack of distinction between gender and the sexed body means that we cannot analyze gender in the Greco-Roman world from a modern binary cisgender framework. Instead, …
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Femininities Reimagined: Gender Politics in Contemporary British Moving Image Art
… this seminal feminist concern through queer, transgender and postcolonial perspectives, affirming feminism’s intersectional possibilities. I situate their practices in the context of what Visual Culture theorist Irit Rogoff has defined as the ‘research turn’ in contemporary art, where artworks …
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Tranny Muse
… from growing up Mormon and coming out as gay and trans/nonbinary to performing in drag and finding new forms for home and community. The collection, organized by books of prose and lineated poems, enacts yet queers traditional genre conventions by transgressing their boundaries as I wrestle with …
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Gender Norms and Gendered Traits
… feminine norms, and so forth. However, many trans and GNC people experience themselves as responsive to norms that were not assigned to them. For example, a person who hasn't been assigned the category woman may nevertheless feel that they ought to follow feminine norms. This cross-category …