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Reaching for T in the South African archives
Abstract This article proposes a methodology of reaching in historicity. It does so by tracing the technical object of synthetic testosterone as it has been used by trans people for gender affirming care. To show the usefulness of the method, this article employs it first in relation to mentions of synthetic testosterone in the South African Medical ...
Noah Lubinsky
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This article discusses some common categories used in the field of Sexology, that are somewhat unclear in terms of definitions. Sexology, while a very recent science, has been built up through the contribution of researchers from many different areas of ...
Fernando Luiz Cardoso
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Adopting Cross-Dressing: A Strategy for Coping with Loss for a Bisexual Man
Cross-dressing refers to the act of donning garments often associated with the opposite gender. Throughout history, cross-dressing has been extensively recorded and is frequently linked to stereotypes such as deviance, fetishism, exhibitionism, sexual ...
Abidah R. Delu, Budiawan
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Abstract Epistolary periodicals associated with English coffee house culture have often been associated with Jürgen Habermas' model for the rise of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. Habermas proposed this ultimately gave rise to the free articulation of public opinion and the emergence of democratic values.
Helen Berry
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“Perversion to match the curtains”? Grayson Perry’s tranny aesthetic
Grayson Perry CBE, winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, is one of Britain’s most prominent contemporary multi-media artists and cultural commentators. Married to Philippa and a father to daughter Flo, Perry is also an “out” practising cross-dresser, famed ...
Margaret GILLESPIE
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Camp Transvestism in Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)
This essay focuses on the figure of the cross-dresser in Peter Ackroyd’s Neo-Victorian novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, which uses both on and off-stage female-to-male and male-to-female cross-dressing as a backdrop for an investigation into a ...
Justine GONNEAUD
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Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances
In the wake of the affective turn, emotion and embodiment have emerged as key terms in cultural studies in order to acknowledge the affective dimension of media texts (Gibbs, 2002; Gregg & Seigworth, 2010).
Anja Hirdman
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This paper analyzes how the State regulates bodies that challenge binary gender rules. Since 2003, several regulations regarding the respect for trans gender identities emerged as part of a broader ‘Human Rights’ ideology in Argentina.
Anahí Farji Neer
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,Passing Women' im Sprechzimmer von Magnus Hirschfeld
In 1910, Magnus Hirschfeld divided the concept of 'sexual inversion' into homosexuality and 'transvestism'. He included only one wornan in his transvestite case histories. The article is based on the cases of four women whom Hirschfeld knew while writing
Geertje Mak
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TRANSSEXUALISM – AN INVESTIGATION
Transsexualism (also referred to as transsexuality) is a phenomenon that is not always well understood in society. From the time that this term was first used it has often been confused with sexual deviations such as homosexuality, bisexuality ...
C.J. Kotzé, C.W. Labuschagné
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