Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2007. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 270-274).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2007. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 270-274).

Thesis (M.S.W.) -- Ohio State University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-114). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:25:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2143.pdf: 731901 bytes, checksum: 7839f374d3998a856e66c4044b914170 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-28 / From the perspective of the Semântica do Acontecimento (Semantics of the Events) and the French Discourse Analysis, which the firs theoretical field dialogues with, we have studied the way the argument ( argumentação ) for changing a transsexual s first name is built through the speaker-petitioner s own words, as well as through the argument and the designations used by the speaker-judge in order to authorize the alteration of a transsexual s first name. In the legal process, proceeded in the enunciation space of São Carlos, state of São Paulo, the petitioner transsexual Agnaldo requests the modification of his masculine first name into the feminine name Ângela. For that study we have adopted the concepts of designação (designation) reescritura (re-writing), cena enunciativa (enunciation scene), politico (politician) and argumentação (argument). Through the analysis of the corpus we could understand how the process of conception of the transsexual s own identity takes place, and how the process of social inclusion of the transsexual subject occurs (the politician being considered) for the subject, once socially excluded, is now included for the modification of the first name sentenced by the judge. There is always the liaison between the social and the politician (político), once the social recognition needs to be legally legitimated so that it can politically happen: the Constitution guarantees the political in the social perspective. Thus, in the political instance, the fragmentation takes place because the speaker-petitioner needs a place of belonging (recognition) and this place (recognizing himself as a subject being a woman ) is legitimated in the juridical discourse. Then, we understand how the process of social identification, connected with the scientific discourse, which has its own crystallized place, may contribute to the alteration of the transsexual s first name in the argumentation of the speaker-judge. Consequently, we can claim that the event and the litigation make the speaker-petitioner s speech move into the memorable (memorável) of the social environment, of the esthetical perspective and of the psychological constitution in order to change the name and that inserts him in the identity of a transsexual. And under the perspective of a liberal subject position, the speaker-judge sentenced favorably for the legitimating of the first name Ângela, who the speaker-petitioner has semantically a new body. This substitution of the official first name by the real one consolidated a new jurisprudence. / A partir da Semântica do Acontecimento e da Análise do Discurso Francesa, com a qual a primeira dialoga, estudamos como se dá a argumentação no que diz respeito à mudança de nome próprio de transexual em recortes do locutor-requerente, bem como pormeio da argumentação e da designação que se vale o locutor-juiz para autorizar a mudança de prenome do transexual. Nesse processo jurídico tramitado no espaço enunciativo de São Carlos, Estado de São Paulo, o requerente transexual Agnaldo solicita a retificação de seu prenome masculino para o feminino Ângela. Para tal, mobilizamos conceitos como designação, reescritura, cena enunciativa, político e argumentação. E, a partir dos recortes analisados, compreendemos como se dá o processo de identificação do transexual e como se dá a inclusão de tal sujeito no social (o político sendo considerado), pois o sujeito, antes excluído juridicamente pela sociedade por não ter ainda a legitimação oficial de seu prenome feminino, é incluído socialmente na/pela sociedade enquanto transexual a partir da mudança do prenome sentenciada pelo juiz. E o tempo todo há o jogo entre o social e o político, uma vez que o reconhecimento social precisa ser legitimado juridicamente para o ser politicamente: a constituição garante o funcionamento político no social. Assim, no político, a divisão se dá porque o locutor-requerente precisa de um lugar de pertencimento legitimado no discurso jurídico. Então, compreendemos como o processo de identificação social, aliado ao discurso científico, que já tem o seu lugar cristalizado, pode contribuir para a mudança de prenome do transexual na argumentação do locutor-juiz. Assim, podemos dizer que o acontecimento e o litígio põem em movimento a fala do locutor-requerente no memorável do convívio social, estético, e da constituição psicológica para mudar de nome, o que o inclui na identidade de transexual. É sob a perspectiva de uma posição sujeito liberal, na qual o locutorjuiz sentenciou favoravelmente à legitimação do prenome Ângela, que o locutor-requerente passou a ter semanticamente um novo corpo. Essa substituição do prenome oficial pelo social consolidou a criação de uma nova jurisprudência.

Higher education in South Africa is faced with a paramount task to help erode the social and structural inequalities that have been inherited from the Apartheid system (Department of Education 1997; Council on Higher Education 2000:12). The findings from the Soudien Report (2008:116-117) point out that the post-Apartheid higher education system in South Africa is characterised by various forms of discrimination and institutional cultures that marginalise some members of institutions resulting in pervasive feelings of alienation. In the South African higher education field, the concept of a “home” for all has been used by a variety of commentators to depict a vision of what transformed, inclusive higher education institutional cultures might look like. In this thesis, I interpret the experiences of residence life on the part of gay, lesbian and bisexual students on a largely residential campus. I ask how gay, lesbian and bisexual students experience being “at home” in the campus’s residence system. The thesis is based on 18 in-depth qualitative interviews with students who self-identify as gay/lesbian or bisexual who have experienced residence life on the campus for a period longer than six months. A wide literature exists on the concept of “home”. Drawing from many different disciplines including anthropology, history, philosophy, geography, psychology, architecture and sociology, I distil the essential features of “at homeness” as incorporating comfort, privacy, security, acceptance, companionship and community. The research was concerned to inquire into how central the idea of home is to human flourishing and then into how gay, lesbian and bisexual students are routinely denied many of the essential comforts associated with being “at home” that heterosexual students have the privilege of taking for granted.

Bakgrund: Transpersoner är globalt sett utsatta i samhället och inom hälso- och sjukvården. De utsätts för diskriminering på grund av samhällets könsnormer, vilket i sin tur kan leda till minoritetsstress. Transpersoner har utöver samma hälsobehov som övriga befolkningen också behov av könsbejakande hormonbehandling och kirurgi. Det mentala, sexuella och reproduktiva hälsobehovet är förhållandevis högt. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva transpersoners erfarenheter av bemötande inom hälso- och sjukvården. Metod: En litteraturstudie bestående av tio vetenskapliga originalartiklar har gjorts. Braun och Clarkes (2006) tematiska analys användes som analysmetod. Resultat: Resultatet beskrivs med två teman vilka är ”Vårdpersonalens kunskap” samt ”Hälso- och sjukvårdens mottagande av transpatienten”. Resultatet visade transpersoners negativa erfarenheter i form av att bemötas med okunskap och respektlöshet angående transpersoners identitet och behov samt transpersoners positiva erfarenheter i form av att bemötas med respekt och bekräftelse för transidentiteten. Slutsats: Slutsatsen är att det krävs mer kunskap om transidentiteten och transpersoners behov inom hälso- och sjukvården för att främja ett respektfullt bemötande. Vidare existerar normer inom vården som behöver ifrågasättas för att främja en inkluderande och jämlik vård. / Background: Globally speaking trans people are vulnerable in society and in healthcare. They are subjected to discrimination due to societys gender norms, which in turn can lead to minority stress. Transgender people have the same health needs as the rest of the population, but also needs for gender-affirming hormone treatment and surgery. The mental, sexual and reproductive health needs are relatively high.  Aim: The aim of this study was to describe transgender peoples experiences of encounters within the healthcare system.  Method: A literature review consisting of ten original scientific articles has been carried out. Braun and Clarkes (2006) thematic analysis was used as the analysis method.  Result: The result is described with two themes which are ”The knowledge of healthcare professionals” and ”Reception of the trans patient by the healthcare system”. The result showed trans peoples negative experiences of being met with ignorance and disrespect regarding gender identity and needs, as well as trans peoples positive experiences of being met with respect and confirmation for the gender identity.  Conclusion: The conclusion is that more knowledge is required about transgender and trans peoples needs in healthcare to promote respectfull treatment. Furthermore, there are norms in healthcare that needs to be questioned in order to promote inclusive and equal care.

My work is a continuously evolving self portrait formulated by a combination of past experiences and influences. The Immaculate Condemnation body of work is a cathartic reaction that confronts Catholic Sin and rebels against gender conformity. As both a confirmed Catholic and transgender woman, I speak from an authentic voice that seeks open conversation regarding these topics. I also hope to demystify the transsexual body for the non-transgendered viewer. Additionally, I use allegoric imagery to communicate my interpretation of beauty, power, horror, and sex. I combine performance, photography, sculpture, video, audio, and graphic design to execute my installations. I intentionally develop environments that both attract and repulse the viewer in order to mimic the relationship I have with Catholicism and Gender Issues.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-10-04T16:51:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Berta Schumann_.pdf: 1487497 bytes, checksum: 1d3927df54f9d67cd1186e61705c402d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-04T16:51:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Berta Schumann_.pdf: 1487497 bytes, checksum: 1d3927df54f9d67cd1186e61705c402d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-04 / Nenhuma / As últimas décadas foram marcadas por grandes mudanças em todos os setores da sociedade, trazendo questionamentos para os quais nem o Direito nem a própria sociedade têm respostas. O direito à saúde, assegurado no artigo 6° da Constituição Federal de 1988, foi regulamentado com a criação do Sistema Único de Saúde, o qual determinou o acesso universal, integral e igualitário a ele e, nunca a sociedade teve tantas possibilidades de acesso a tantos direitos. Entretanto, viver na era dos direitos não significa ter acesso a eles, pois, quando nos referimos às identidades transexuais, o direito à saúde encontra limites, uma vez que, para os transexuais o direito à saúde plena depende de condições e de critérios impostos por recomendações internacionais, seguidas no Brasil. Segundo elas, somente aquele que for diagnosticado doente terá acesso ao procedimento transexualizador. Esta imposição fere o exercício da autonomia, uma vez que os transexuais ficam limitados pelas normas de gênero diante da patologização da experiência. Na condição de doentes, ao mesmo tempo em que são acolhidos (programa transexualizador), são excluídos por recomendações regidas por explicações aceitas como oficiais, porém, defasadas, vez que não há qualquer exame ou sintoma que leve a concluir que o transexual é transtornado. Isso se alia ao fato de que houve várias alterações nas recomendações que incluem a transexualidade nos catálogos de transtornos mentais ao longo dos anos, demonstrando que são referências não estáticas, logo, passíveis de mudanças, principalmente no sentido de efetivar o direito à saúde. Esta discrepância entre o direito estabelecido pelas recomendações internacionais e o direito como forma de vida social que tem a sua realidade na vontade da sociedade, na realidade jurídica da vida, é o principal enfrentamento da despatologização pelos transexuais. A vulnerabilidade trazida com a patologização demonstra que o Brasil é o país onde mais se cometem assassinatos de transexuais no mundo. Assim, a concepção do transexual como sujeito fora do padrão da normalidade não binária de gênero e rotulado como pessoa doente lhe traz um enorme sofrimento, inclusive com a terminalidade voluntária e precoce da vida. Assim, a presente dissertação pretende induzir uma reflexão sobre o direito à saúde dos transexuais, demonstrando que existe a possiblidade de modificação das condições impostas pelas recomendações internacionais em nosso país, o qual possui autonomia para a manutenção do processo transexualizador no SUS sem a necessidade de diagnóstico patologizante. Estas mudanças nas estruturas e nos programas governamentais no Brasil são possíveis e necessárias, permitindo o acesso ao direito à saúde a todos, independentemente de condições e, principalmente, de identidade de gênero. Dessa forma, o objetivo é trazer à reflexão a eliminação da palavra transtorno e, por consequência, a eliminação do diagnóstico patologizante, haja vista que os transexuais estão engajados na busca pela sua autonomia e identidade, uma vez que não são doentes ou anormais. / The last decades have been marked by major changes in all sectors of society, which ends up raising outstanding questions that neither the law either the society itself have answers. The right to health, guaranteed in the Article 6 of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and regulated by the creation of the Unified Health System, determines the universal, full and equal access to this right, and never before society had so many possibilities and access to so many rights as it has nowadays. However, live the era of rights does not mean actually having access to all of them: when we refer to transgender identities, the right to health is relativized, since for those people the right to full health depends on the criteria and conditions imposed by international standards followed in Brazil, for which only one who is diagnosed ill can have access to transsexual procedures. This hurts the exercise of their autonomy, since transsexuals are limited by gender norms on the pathologizing of experience. The condition of sick person at the same time as they are received (transsexual program) are excluded by rules governed by explanations accepted as official, however, lagged, since there is no examination or symptom that leads to the conclusion that the transsexual is upset, coupled with the fact the various changes that the recommendations that include transsexuality in mental disorders catalogs have suffered over the years, showing that they are not static references, therefore, subject to changes mainly in order to give effect to the right to health. This discrepancy between the rights established as international recommendations and the law as a form of social life, which has its reality in the will of society, the legal reality of life is the main face of depathologization by transsexuals. The vulnerability brought by pathologization shows that Brazil is the country with the highest number of transgender murders in the world. Therefore, the design of the transsexual as a subject non-standard non-binary gender normality and labeled as sick person, brings enormous suffering, including the voluntary and early terminally life. So this dissertation aims to induce a reflection on the right to health of transsexual people, demonstrating that there is the possibility of modifying the conditions imposed by international recommendations in our country, which has autonomy for the maintenance of transsexual processes in Unified Health System without the need of a pathologizing diagnosis. These changes in the Brazilian structures and government programs are possible and necessary, which will allow access to the right to health to all, regardless of conditions and, especially, gender identity. The main goal is to bring to reflect the elimination of the word disorder and, hence, the elimination of pathologic diagnosis, given that transsexuals are engaged in the search of autonomy and identity, since they are not sick or abnormal.

My thesis is a critical essay thematically focused on the fate of the body in the postmodern condition. In this thesis a fundamental question is posed: What happens to the (postmodern) body under the double pressure of postmodern technology and culture? Is the postmodern body altered under the pressure of postmodern technology and culture? How contemporary thought and architecture impact the body will also be examined. This thesis discusses the above questions through several key concepts such as exilic conditions, heterotopias and ‘trans’ states of being. After elaborating on these issues, this thesis attempts to design an architectural project “Hamam Complex” on a unique natural island in the Bosporus strait that separates the Western and Eastern worlds.

Theories are tools with which we critically analyze society‟s structure and understand experiences that are not our own. When theories no longer describe the narratives that they claim, we must update them. This thesis proposes to do just that. The trans theories of J. Halberstam and Jay Prosser will be analyzed using ten autobiographies written by self-identified FTM transsexuals and transmen. Prosser and Halberstam are two well-known theorists in the field of trans theory. J. Halberstam approaches FTM transsexuality from the perspective of a lesbian feminist, who has an understanding of transgender butch individuals. Jay Prosser writes from the perspective of being a FTM transsexual himself. I chose publications by these theorists because they had sections that focused specifically on FTM narratives, and they both used at least two of the autobiographies I use and they were published the same year. Therefore, I found them to be two theoretical frameworks that could be compared on several different levels. The publication dates of the ten narratives range from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Applicability of the theories will be measured by comparing them to what the autobiographers say about their lives. The tool of analysis will be five focus areas that are represented, to some degree, in each narrative. They are: Trying to fit into female roll/body/world; Discovering one is Trans/Coming Out; Acquiring Hormones and Sexual Reassignment Surgery; Trying to Establish/Re-establish a Confident Identity; and Romantic/Sexual Relationships.. I will discuss how helpful each theory is in accordance with these narratives. The aim of this thesis is to assess how well each theorist addresses the issue of transsexual identity. The field of transsexual research is still new and developing, there are many interesting parts of these narratives that can be delved into further. I will conclude by proposing a new trans theoretical view point that would better help one to understand the process of female-to-male transition. What one should take away from this thesis is that despite differences in sex and gender formation, these people are, like the rest of the world, trying to create an identity that they not only feel comfortable with as a representation of themselves, but also one that they can be proud of.