Essays about: "butch"

Found 4 essays containing the word butch.

  1. 1. Gender Indeterminacy in English to French Translation: Case Study of Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Caroline Grand-Clement; [2023-03-17]
    Keywords : Leslie Feinberg; Stone Butch Blues; gender indeterminacy; English to French translation; queer literature; grammatical gender; gender agreement;

    Abstract : This essay explores how characters’ gender indeterminacy in English fiction texts can be translated into French, and which translation choices are available to achieve its preservation. The translation of Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues by Hystériques & AssociéEs is made the focus of this essay, as the gendering in French of the main character, Jess, is examined. READ MORE

  3. 2. Female Masculinity: A Threat or/and Tribute to Male Masculinity – Exploring the Limitations of Denaturalization of Gender

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Asja Lazarevic; [2019]
    Keywords : masculinity; butch; lesbian; homosociality; binary; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This theoretical paper will explore the limitations of denaturalization of gender, or more specifically the breakage of the link between maleness and masculinity. Using different examples of female masculinities, but focused on those coupled with lesbian desire, it will be argued that exposing performativity/unnaturalness of gender does not necessarily impact the gender binary - femininity/masculinity. READ MORE

  4. 3. FTM Trans Theory VS. Trans Narratives : Working Towards an Updated Trans Theory

    University essay from Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Emily Nelson; [2011]
    Keywords : Female-to-Male FTM ; Halberstam; Gender Identity Disorder; Hysterectomy; Male-to-Female MTF ; Mastectomy; Metoidioplasty; Phalloplasty; Sexual Reassignment Surgery SRS ; Transgender; Transsexual;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  5. 4. Do Bodies Matter? : Stone, water, light, skin and material performativity in Therme Vals

    University essay from Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusstudier

    Author : Brady Burroughs; [2007]
    Keywords : architecture; gender; butch; body; matter; arkitektur; genus;

    Abstract : The following text is a study of non-normative gender positions and sexualities in the architecture of the senses proposing and encouraging a new way of thinking about the built environment in terms of gender. My assumption is that a change in the way that we think about gender in the theory, practice and education of architecture also will affect the way we think about gender in relation to bodies. READ MORE