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Creating a space for trans self‐narrative in 1930s Turkey: Kenan Çinili's memoir

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 167-190, March 2024.
Abstract The memoir of Kenan Çinili, a transgender person who was widely covered by newspapers in Turkey in the second half of the 1930s, sheds light on the historically and geographically unique workings of cisheteronormativity. Through a self‐reflexive reading of the memoir and newspaper accounts from this period, this article explores how a ...
Ezgi Sarıtaş
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Writing trans histories with an ethics of care, while reading gender in imperial Roman literature

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 14-31, March 2024.
Abstract Two major barriers interfere with writing trans histories of the premodern world: the conflict between creating a legible or foreignised past and balancing the vastness of the social system of gender against individual performances of gender identity. In this article, I propose one methodology to bypass these barriers.
Ky Merkley
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Reaching for T in the South African archives

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 257-274, March 2024.
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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Adopting Cross-Dressing: A Strategy for Coping with Loss for a Bisexual Man

Soshum: Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora
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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Democracy's Fatal Flaw: Anonymity and the Normalization of Offence in John Dunton's Epistolary Periodicals

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 95-109, March 2024.
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

E-REA, 2019
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)

E-REA, 2019
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

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 2016
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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Gender identity divergence: drag queens, transvestism, and rransexualism / Inversões do papel de gênero: "drag queens", travestismo e transexualismo

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2005
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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Gender identity as a human right. Analysis of the transit of a concept in the speeches of the State of the City of Buenos Aires (period 2003-2010)

Punto Género, 2013
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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