Thesis (Ph. D.)--Vrije Universiteit, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Vrije Universiteit, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

I denna uppsats möter man tre ungdomar med diagnosen transsexualism och deras familjer. Syftet med studien var att förmedla kunskap och förståelse om transsexualism genom att studera interaktionen mellan familjemedlemmarna och hur de upplever verkligheten i en förändringsprocess. Syftet grundar sig på tankar och reflektioner om dessa familjers utsatthet och vad det inneburit för dem. Intervjuer har genomförts tillsammans med familjemedlemmarna och sammanfattas i uppsatsen. Med utgångspunkt från ”Vad är transsexualism?” och systemisk teori får man en uppfattning om hur familjen upplevt och hanterat processen, vilken betydelse familjen haft för individen och hur familjen har upplevt vårdprocessen och samhället i övrigt. Resultaten från intervjuerna pekar på att familjerna har upplevt stigmatisering och utanförskap. Studien har uppmärksammat individens svåra situation från tidig barndom och familjens viktiga betydelse. Studien visar också på att vårdapparaten och myndigheter i övrigt behöver mer kunskap och resurser för bemötande och vård och behandling.

How did the wrong-body discourse (WBD) become the dominant medicalised discourse in Canada and the United States? What ideological effects did this dominance have? To address these questions, I conducted a critical discourse analysis informed by Foucauldian genealogy. I analysed texts written in, or translated into, English for a medical-expert audience from the earliest mentions of wrong bodies in 1864 to the institutionalisation of the WBD in the DSM-III diagnosis of transsexualism in 1980. I argue that through the medicalisation of gender variance, the three tenets of the WBD—wrongness of the body; disjuncture between sex and gender; surgical and hormonal solution—developed individually and were brought together by medical experts into a coherent discourse in the mid-1960s. Two main factors likely contributed to the dominance of the WBD: the lack of dependence on any particular etiology that made the WBD compatible with a wide variety of explanations, and the very small number of medical experts responsible for the majority of publications on gender variance all using the WBD. I further argue that medical experts, faced with challenges to their treatment of gender-variant people, turned to the idea of true transsexualism to stabilise the newly-formed WBD and legitimate their treatment of gender variance. In addition to the three tenets of the WBD, true transsexualism also included characteristics and assumptions that medical experts expected gender-variant people to embody if they wanted access to treatment. Through these expectations, medical experts produced a set of norms against which all gender-variant people were judged as legitimate or not, namely, one of the first iterations of transnormativity. / Graduate

Thesis (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains 154 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-112).

Feminists of the past two and a half decades have been influential in the debates about the meaning of womanhood. Transsexualism as a state of being, and transsexuals themselves, have periodically presented challenging issues to the discussion. As a result, the boundaries of womanhood are being questioned and membership in sex and gender categories are being contested by transsexuals and non-transsexuals within feminist debates. Conflicts arise when questions of transsexuals' womanhood come to the forefront, and one controversy centres on whether sex and gender statuses change for transsexuals. Do male-to-female transsexuals become women (if ever)? Do male-to-female transsexuals become female (if ever)? Should transsexual women be included in women-only events? The last question stirs the debate that has been brewing in feminist communities since the 1970s. And because women-only events are largely organized and attended by lesbians, lesbians have often been at the forefront of feminist debates about the womanhood of transsexual women. There has been much lively debate in the 1970s and again in the 1990s on the topic of transsexualism, however there has been little research specifically looking at feminist attitudes about transsexuals. To expand our knowledge in these areas, the concepts of womanhood is explored from a feminist perspective. A context is provided with a review of radical feminist, radical lesbian feminist and lesbian separatist theories. Feminist literature on the issue of transsexualism is presented to show the many sides of the debate. Praxis of radical feminism is illustrated using the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival as an example of women-only space, a model of feminist-separatist utopia and a site where transsexual women have not been welcome. With this foundation, analysis of survey question results are presented to determine whether feminist attitudes, as presented in the literature, aptly reflect non-lesbian and lesbian feminist perspectives on transsexuals' womanhood. This thesis concludes with a discussion of the findings and suggestions for further study. / Graduate / 0626

Feminists of the past two and a half decades have been influential in the debates about the meaning of womanhood. Transsexualism as a state of being, and transsexuals themselves, have periodically presented challenging issues to the discussion. As a result, the boundaries of womanhood are being questioned and membership in sex and gender categories are being contested by transsexuals and non-transsexuals within feminist debates. Conflicts arise when questions of transsexuals' womanhood come to the forefront, and one controversy centres on whether sex and gender statuses change for transsexuals. Do male-to-female transsexuals become women (if ever)? Do male-to-female transsexuals become female (if ever)? Should transsexual women be included in women-only events? The last question stirs the debate that has been brewing in feminist communities since the 1970s. And because women-only events are largely organized and attended by lesbians, lesbians have often been at the forefront of feminist debates about the womanhood of transsexual women. There has been much lively debate in the 1970s and again in the 1990s on the topic of transsexualism, however there has been little research specifically looking at feminist attitudes about transsexuals. To expand our knowledge in these areas, the concepts of womanhood is explored from a feminist perspective. A context is provided with a review of radical feminist, radical lesbian feminist and lesbian separatist theories. Feminist literature on the issue of transsexualism is presented to show the many sides of the debate. Praxis of radical feminism is illustrated using the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival as an example of women-only space, a model of feminist-separatist utopia and a site where transsexual women have not been welcome. With this foundation, analysis of survey question results are presented to determine whether feminist attitudes, as presented in the literature, aptly reflect non-lesbian and lesbian feminist perspectives on transsexuals' womanhood. This thesis concludes with a discussion of the findings and suggestions for further study. / Graduate / 0626

Orientador: Wiliam Siqueira Peres / Banca: Roberta Stubs Parpinelli / Banca: Leonardo Lemos de Souza / Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa foi acompanhar o Coletivo ElityTrans, grupo formado por travestis e transexuais da cidade de Londrina (PR), nos processos de experimentação teatral vividos por meio de oficinas compartilhadas entre participantes do coletivo e pesquisador, que resultou na criação da Cia. Translúcidas de Teatro. Procuramos no método da cartografia caminhos para acompanhar as linhas de subjetivação que atravessavam xs participantes e que indicavam problematizações sobre temas suscitados. Estes temas se transversalizaram e encontraram no termo "vivências trans" diferentes sentidos que foram explorados teoricamente: expressões de travestilidades e transexualidades; formas mais potentes de abordar tais expressões, como as perspectivas queer; experimentações artísticas através da prática teatral, e experiências coletivas que permitiram o exercício do teatro e da pesquisa, colocando o próprio sentido de experiência em questão. Esta pesquisa acompanhou a montagem de uma peça teatral realizada junto com xs participantes do coletivo e elaborada como um dispositivo de luta política e emancipatória, que se inscreve no cenário de violências contra expressões de gêneros dissidentes. Este dispositivo interessou-se por das condições de "ver" e "falar" que estavam entre os desejos das pessoas envoltas ao projeto que confluíram na necessidade ética de garantir às pessoas trans e travestis, o direito fundamental à existência / Abstract: The purpose of this research was to accompany the ElityTrans Collective, a group formed by transvestites and transsexuals from Londrina (PR), in the processes of theatrical experimentation lived through workshops realized with participants of the collective and researcher. We found in the method of cartography ways to follow the lines of subjectivation that crossed participants and indicated problematizations on issues raised. These themes were transversalized and found in the term "trans experiences" different meanings that were explored theoretically: expressions of travestilities and transsexualities; more potent ways of addressing such expressions, such as queer perspectives; artistic experiments through theatrical practice, and collective experiences that allowed the exercise of theater and research, putting the very meaning of experience in question. This research followed the construction of a theatrical play performed together with participants from the collective and elaborated as a device of political and emancipatory struggle, which is part of the scenario of violence against expressions of dissenting genres. This device was interested in the conditions of "seeing" and "talking" that were among the wishes of the people involved in the project that came together in the ethical need to guarantee trans people and transvestites the fundamental right to existence / Mestre

Thesis (doctoral)--Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 20, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-266).

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