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Showing 1 to 20 of 156 for “"transgender studies"”.
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The Spaces Between: Non-Binary Representations of Gender in Twentieth-Century American Film
… the intersections among discourses of feminism, transgender studies, queer theory, film studies, and social activist practice. I address the question of how transphobia as a set of beliefs and behaviors is illustrated in four late-twentieth-century films, three produced in America and one …
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Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality
… philosophy, feminist and queer theory, and transgender studies. Despite their related genealogies, these theoretical frameworks often give different accounts of the claim to an essential or real identity, as well as the relationship between identity, embodiment, and power more broadly. I …
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Transgender identities, intimate relationships and practices of care
… with the social construction and formation of transgender identities, the impact of gender transition upon intimate relationships and the practices of transgender care networks. The research is linked to the ERSC research group Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA) and the focus of the …
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"The Trans Tipping Point": Assessing Contemporary Transgender Visibility in Alternative and Mainstream Media
… to develop a rubric for the assessment of recent transgender visibility across disparate media spaces. The rubric is based upon the critiques of transgender studies scholars and transgender activists on transgender representation in media. The rubric aims to address the most salient issues found …
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TransGothic Methods
… the investments of each field. I examine how transgender studies can do more than simply add value to gothic, and the gothic can do more than supply transgender studies with tropes and imagery for expounding its theories. A chapter on Ann Radcliffe’s *The Mysteries of Udolpho* examines the …
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(De)composing Transhumanisms: Fungal and Trans Ecologies in Jeff VanderMeer's <em>Annihilation</em>
… Jesse Nash’s “‘I Am Not Returning Home’: A Transgender Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s <em>Annihilation</em>”, this paper argues that representations of fungus in <em>Annihilation</em> present a possibility for trans futurity rooted in transformation, ecological entanglement, and a rejection of …
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Plasticity Against Plastic: Synthetics In The Practice, Theory, And Conservation Of Art Since The 1960s
… process. In this dissertation, case studies of art objects, criticism, and conservation from the1960s and the 1970s reveal that the concept of “plastic” was especially contested and malleable at this time. Drawing on cultural anthropology, continental philosophy, transgender studies, …
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Bodies over Borders and Borders over Bodies: the 'Gender Refugee' and the imagined South Africa
… tracks the conceptual journeying of the term 'transgender' from the Global North - where it originated - along with the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa, and considers the interrelationships between the two. With regards to …
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Transsexual recognition:embodiment bodily aesthetics and the medicolegal system
… embodiment that has emerged from the field of transgender studies. The empirical study has been influenced by poststructuralist theory and feminist phenomenology and focuses on the constructed personal meanings of embodiment and bodily aesthetics for transpeople. Furthermore the thesis explores …
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PLAYING TRANSNESS: AN ANALYSIS OF MEANINGFUL TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATION IN VIDEO GAMES
Transgender media representation is generally plagued with problems, and rarely have I experienced transgender media representation where I feel seen, or where I feel as though it is made from a distinctly transgender-centric perspective. This dissertation develops a theorization of meaningful …
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Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936
… normative gender and sexuality. Whereas previous studies on the formation of gender and sexuality in the United States have generally utilized only one genre of sources—focusing exclusively on representations of gender and sexual deviance in novels, the sensational press, or sexology …
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Between Worlds, Between Times: Thinking with Trans Narratives at the Limits of Ontology and Temporality
My thesis offers up an explicitly transfeminist mobilization of the theoretical notions of ontological pluralism and queer temporality against the pervasive cultural norm of cis-normativity and the dominant temporal logic of chrono-normativity. First, I critique the blatantly transphobic and …
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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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Transgender in College: Engaging Marginalized Collegiate Students
… are the best practices to engage and empower transgender students within student involvement and leadership on college campuses, specifically through engagement within the Office of Student Life? This thesis theorizes that practices that are inclusive and respectful to transgender students …
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