Masculinity and female bodies

Wickman, Jan

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“…Westbrook and Schilt (2014, p. 35) confirm that 'visual information cues' such as facial hair are essential parts of the body and physical construct for men wishing to receive such privileges. Indeed, unlike the research relating to the Euro-American context (Ekins & King, 2005;Wickman, 2003), my research suggests that the invisibility of trans women in Iranespecially when compared with the visibility of trans menis related to the nation's patriarchal gender regime and its tendency to misrecognize trans women as homosexual prostitutes and criminalize homosexual men.…”

Section: Realnesscontrasting

confidence: 66%

“Are trans men the manliest of men?” Gender practices, trans masculinity andmardānegīin contemporary Iran

Saeidzadeh

2019

Journal of Gender Studies

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In this article, I examine how trans men who undergo or plan to undergo medical transition construe their masculinity or mardānegī (I follow IJMES's transliteration guide-Persian to English) in Persian language, through certain gender practices that manifest their manhood as manly, real and psychologically well. I argue that trans men in Iran practice masculinity in ways that is not only in strong entanglement with women but also is distanced from non-trans heterosexual men, trans women and gay men. Drawing on 14 semi-structured interviews with trans men in Iran as part of a bigger project on sex change in contemporary Iran, I explain that trans men's masculinity in Iran is a localized, traditionalmodern kind of trans masculinity that distinguishes itself from other gender groups due to trans men's specificity of gender location.

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Section: Realnesscontrasting

confidence: 66%

“Are trans men the manliest of men?” Gender practices, trans masculinity andmardānegīin contemporary Iran

Saeidzadeh

2019

Journal of Gender Studies

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“…Another scholar that relatively early used masculinity literature in order to study trans men is Wickman (2001Wickman ( , 2003. He emphasizes the importance of the development of two gender studies fields in the 1990s that changed our understanding of gender and sexuality, queer theory and masculinity studies.…”

Section: Trans Masculinitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trans masculinities

Gottzén

Straube

2016

NORMA

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The aim of this special issue is to enable a dialogue between masculinity studies and transgender studies and attempt to find common areas of inquiry and mutual knowledge production in such conventionally divided arenas. The contributions to the issue explore a multiplicity of masculinities, which are seen as situational positions that can be deployed and activated by a variety of bodies, and in this way attempt to de-essentialize masculinity as grounded in a cis-male body. In this introduction, we discuss how masculinity studies have approached transgender issues, its general lack of interest in trans masculinities, as well as how transgender studies have related to masculinity theorizing.

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“…Queer theory, which emerged in the 1990s, was founded in poststructuralist thinking, in particular in Michel Foucault's and Judith Butler's theorising. It introduced new viewpoints to gender and sexuality as socially constructed and aimed to deconstruct the naturalising discourses of the Western dichotomous gender order (Hines, 2007;Wickman, 2003). Queer theory suggests that our bodies are always shaped by the social world in which they are inescapably situated.…”

Section: Study Approach 31 Social Constructivism and Queer Theorymentioning

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Uncomfortable in my own skin – emerging, early-stage identity-related information needs of transgender people

Huttunen

Hirvonen

Kähkönen

2020

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PurposeThis study aims to increase the understanding of the early-stage identity-related information needs of transgender people.Design/methodology/approachThis study draws on social constructivism, queer theory and information practice research. In accordance with the queer phenomenological approach which emphasises lived experiences, data was collected by interviewing 25 individuals who identified as transgender. The data was analysed with a focus on how early-stage information needs are formed into conscious information needs.FindingsThe formation of early-stage information needs were conceptualised as a chain including a trigger for information seeking, finding the right words and understanding the experience. Especially the bodily changes starting at puberty were strong causes of discomfort causing friction between the subjects' own gendered body and their gender experience, even leading to gender dysphoria. Finding words to describe the experience played an important role in the process of identity formation. In many cases this was difficult because of the lack of accurate and relevant information.Social implicationsProviding information especially of varying transgender experiences is vital for individuals trying to understand and verbalise their gender identity.Originality/valueThis study provides an understanding of the early-stage information needs described by transgender people and the process of building identities through disorientation. This study suggests that early-stage information needs are a valid concept to help understand how embodied experiences and the friction between the lived experience and the social world can lead to information seeking.

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Masculinity and female bodies

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

“Are trans men the manliest of men?” Gender practices, trans masculinity andmardānegīin contemporary Iran

“Are trans men the manliest of men?” Gender practices, trans masculinity andmardānegīin contemporary Iran

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Uncomfortable in my own skin – emerging, early-stage identity-related information needs of transgender people

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