Characterizing the Role of Facial Hair in Gender Identity and Expression Among Transgender Men

Author(s):  
James T. Pathoulas ◽  
Kelly E. Flanagan ◽  
Chloe J. Walker ◽  
Isabel M. Pupo Wiss ◽  
Dustin Marks ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esethu Monakali

This article offers an analysis of the identity work of a black transgender woman through life history research. Identity work pertains to the ongoing effort of authoring oneself and positions the individual as the agent; not a passive recipient of identity scripts. The findings draw from three life history interviews. Using thematic analysis, the following themes emerge: institutionalisation of gender norms; gender and sexuality unintelligibility; transitioning and passing; and lastly, gender expression and public spaces. The discussion follows from a poststructuralist conception of identity, which frames identity as fluid and as being continually established. The study contends that identity work is a complex and fragmented process, which is shaped by other social identities. To that end, the study also acknowledges the role of collective agency in shaping gender identity.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (09) ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Ignacio Yáñez Castillo

En el proceso histórico actual, en que asistimos a una mayor visibilidad y una creciente conquista de derechos de las sexualidades no heterosexuales, surge la pregunta respecto al lugar del psicólogx en el proceso legal de cambio de identidad de género en Chile.Actualmente –sin la existencia de una Ley de Identidad de Género– el psicólogx es consultadx por los jueces en su opinión profesional para decidir sobre la autorización o no al cambio de identidad de género de una determinada persona, al considerarlxs interlocutorxs válidxs para sancionar si una persona “es lo que dice ser”, como si la psicología tuviera una respuesta ante la pregunta de qué es una mujer o qué es un hombre. Críticos del operar actual de la psicología en esta materia, se propone en cambio, un rol del psicólogx que permita pensar la psicología fuera del control social al que ha sido relegada en esta materia, siendo capaz de dar cuenta de los procesos de desigualación operantes y sus efectos en la subjetividad. In the current historical process, where we are witnessing a greater visibility and a growing conquest of rights of non-heterosexual sexualities, the question arises as to the place of the psychologist in the legal process of gender identity change in Chile.Currently –without the existence of a Gender Identity Law– the psychologist is consulted by the judges in their professional opinion to decide on the authorization or not to change the gender identity of a particular person, considering the valid interlocutors to sanction if a person “is what it claims to be,” as if psychology ad an answer to the question of what a woman is or what a man is. Critics of the current operation of psychology in this matter, however, proposes a role of psychology that allows psychology to think outside of social control that hasbeen relegated in this matter, being able to account for the processes of inequality operative and Its effects on subjectivity.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ezra ◽  
Catherine Wheatley

This chapter, written by the book’s editors, provides an introduction to the role of shoes in cinema, discussing the significance of shoes in terms of gender identity, sexuality, race, ethnicity and social class, through the lens of a range of philosophical, psychoanalytic, and historical approaches. It also presents an overview of the chapters in the book, which cover films in a variety of genres from around the world, and from the silent era to the present. The wearing of shoes, it is argued, tells us a great deal both about the wearer and about the time and place in which the shoes are worn—and there is no better medium than film in which to convey the myriad qualities of shoes, which have the capacity to be both very special and very ordinary.


Author(s):  
David W. Kling

The concluding chapter provides summary observations of the book’s themes that highlight the complex, multifaceted dimension of conversion throughout twenty centuries of Christian history. These include the convert’s cognizance of divine presence; the crucial importance of historical context (political, religious, institutional, and socioeconomic factors); continuity and discontinuity (how much of the new displaces the old in conversion?); nominal, incomplete, and “true” conversions; personal testimonies and narratives (the autobiographical impulse attests to the converted life); the role of gender; identity and the self; agency (are converts actors or are they being acted upon?); the mechanisms behind and the motivations for conversion; the body as a site of conversion; the role of music; conversion as event and process; coercive practices; and forms of communication in the converting process.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-526
Author(s):  
Phillip M Ayoub

Abstract This piece dialogues with Htun and Weldon's exceptional new book, The Logics of Gender Justice, as it relates to LGBTI rights. Beyond engaging the authors' questions of when and why governments promote women's rights, I also engage their argument that equality is not one issue but many linked issues, including issues of sexuality and gender identity. My own reflections on their work thus address the contributions the book makes to the study of political science, as well as open questions about how their logic of gender justice might apply across other issue areas less explored in the book. Htun and Weldon's own definition of gender justice also rightly includes space for LGBTQI people, which I see as an invitation to think through the typology in relation to these communities. The piece begins by reflecting on the book's theoretical and methodical innovations around the complexities of gender politics, before moving on to the multi-faceted role of religion in gender justice, and then theoretical assumptions around visibility of the marginalized.


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