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  1. 1. The Joy of Not Fitting In – An Essay on How Non-binary People Accomplish Gender Euphoria

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Frederik Kramer Kluw; [2022]
    Keywords : Non-binary; Gender Euphoria; Masculinity Femininity; Internet-ethnography; Ethnomethodology; Doing gender; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand how gender euphoria is constructed by non-binary people, and how these experiences are embedded in ideas of masculinities and femininities. The theoretical point of departure involves the theorization of “doing gender” by West and Zimmerman, concepts from ethnomethodology inspired by Liberman, and finally “performative acts” by Butler. READ MORE

  3. 2. Pathologise/De-Pathologise: : Changing Medical Understandings of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People in Britain

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Charles Price; [2018]
    Keywords : Transgender; Gender Non-Conforming; Healthcare; Medicine; Pathologisation; De-pathologisation; Futures; Britain;

    Abstract : In recent years there has been increasing awareness of transgender and gender non-conforming people in the UK, and in turn there have been vastly increasing numbers of people seeking medical treatment for their gender dysphoria. This research paper analyses the past medical literature on transgender and gender non-conforming people in the UK, in combination with an interview with a surgeon working in the field of sex reassignment surgery, to examine the historical trends in medical approaches to gender non-conformity. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Limitations of Rigid Gender Norms in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Author : Emelie Paulsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Gender; performative gender; rigid gender norms; nineteenth-century;

    Abstract : This essay examines the limitations of societal gender norms and expectations of the late nineteenth-century and how the fictional character Ántonia Shimerda adheres to and fails to conform to them. In nineteenth-century America men and women were divided into two different spheres. READ MORE

  5. 4. Violent Relations: An Ecological Analysis of Factors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence in Kampala, Uganda

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Isabella Thafvelin; [2014]
    Keywords : Violence against women; intimate partner violence; male perpetrators; feminist perspectives; family violence perspectives; and integrative ecological framework; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this qualitative case study was to add to the understanding of why intimate partner violence against women perpetrated by a male partner occurs in Kampala, Uganda. The study combined a feminist and a family violence perspective by using an integrative ecological framework which structured the analysis around four levels: societal, community, individual/relationship, and individual level. READ MORE