Essays about: "Trans feminine"
Found 4 essays containing the words Trans feminine.
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1. Who can “I” or “we” be without Gender? An online ethnographic study to understand identity inside the alchemy of agender
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för temaAbstract : This research is a curiosity for the spaces outside the gender binary, the spaces where an “I” and a “we” could manifest unencumbered by this hierarchical binary[1]. The binary is often in gender research considered a system of understanding sexed peoples in this world based on their differential position in relation to one another. READ MORE
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2. Finding Femininity: a Representation Analysis of Trans* Femininity on Screen
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to analyse the representation of trans* feminine women in popular media. This is done by presenting a theoretical background focusing on a specific minority group in society – namely, trans* feminine women – femininity, and heteronormativity, as well as by taking a poststructuralist approach to the applied theoretical framework in order to conduct a representation analysis of three trans* feminin characters from three different films. READ MORE
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3. On Sublimity and the Excessive Object in Trans Women's Contemporary Writing
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeAbstract : This thesis examines trans women's contemporary writing in relation to a theory of the excessive object, sublimity, transmisogyny and minor literature. In doing so, this text is influenced by Susan Stryker's work on monstrosity, abjection and transgender rage in the article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994). READ MORE
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4. "You don't always like your sisters, but you always love them" : Trans feminine accounts of misogyny, sisterhood and difference in New York City
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeAbstract : This thesis examines six trans feminine informants in New York City's experiences of oppression, trans-misogyny, femi-negativity, racism, and classism, as well as their experiences of community support, conflicts and resistance practices through the lens of the term sisterhood and the practice of sisterhooding. Focus has also been placed on the informant's views on allyship and coalition, and their relationship to other communities, such as the trans masculine community. READ MORE