Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies
<p> Clinical expectations that trans people will be so filled with self-loathing that sexual interactions will be limited if possible at all fail to take into account the heterogeneous ways trans people experience their own bodies and sexualities. In this essay, I extend recent work in...
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| description | <p> Clinical expectations that trans people will be so filled with self-loathing that sexual interactions will be limited if possible at all fail to take into account the heterogeneous ways trans people experience their own bodies and sexualities. In this essay, I extend recent work in science and technology studies (STS) that attends to material practices by examining the work of narrative and argue for a new paradigm in situating trans sexualities. I analyse trans men's autobiographical stories to show some of the many ways that trans men make sense of themselves (and enact maleness) as sexual subjects. By focusing on how sex-gender is enacted and hangs together in narrative-practices, we can more fully understand and appreciate the realities of trans lives and the inadequacies of clinical diagnosis. </p> |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-720302018-12-13T09:35:02Z Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies Latham, Joe <p> Clinical expectations that trans people will be so filled with self-loathing that sexual interactions will be limited if possible at all fail to take into account the heterogeneous ways trans people experience their own bodies and sexualities. In this essay, I extend recent work in science and technology studies (STS) that attends to material practices by examining the work of narrative and argue for a new paradigm in situating trans sexualities. I analyse trans men's autobiographical stories to show some of the many ways that trans men make sense of themselves (and enact maleness) as sexual subjects. By focusing on how sex-gender is enacted and hangs together in narrative-practices, we can more fully understand and appreciate the realities of trans lives and the inadequacies of clinical diagnosis. </p> 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72030 10.1177/1363460715583609 Sage Publications restricted |
| spellingShingle | Latham, Joe Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies |
| title | Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies |
| title_full | Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies |
| title_fullStr | Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies |
| title_short | Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies |
| title_sort | trans men's sexual narrative-practices: introducing sts to trans and sexuality studies |
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