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Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic
The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 6, Page 1393-1421, November 2024.British constitutional thought tends to understand sovereignty in legalistic terms, with the concept often equated with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. As Loughlin and Tierney have recently argued, this approach obscures the political considerations which undergird the legal precept. In this article we argue that this approach misses a third,
Illan Wall, Daniel Matthews
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Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2013 This study sought to ascertain the vulnerabilities to HIV/Aids of transvestites of the Metropolitan Region of Recife. The Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) method was selected for data collection.
Patricia Juliana de Sousa +2 more
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Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 620-635, September/October 2024.Abstract Some attorneys and legal scholars argue that medicalizing transgender plaintiffs (i.e., introducing plaintiff diagnoses and/or medical procedures) in discrimination cases will enhance favorable plaintiff outcomes. Research and theory linking biological essentialism (i.e., believing social groups reflect biologically‐rooted, stable categories ...
Kyla Bender‐Baird +1 more
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The Iron Ladies : El fenómeno kathoey en el cine tailandés [PDF]
, 2012 Even though they lack any legal rights, the kathoey , also known as ladyboys , have great social relevance in Thailand. We face a different way of l ooking at homosexuality, starting with a more tolerant consideration from ...
Expósito-Barea, Milagros
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, 2016 Aim: To analyze the association between suicidal ideation, suicide, its risk factors and social representations in the life of transvestites and transsexuals.
Glauber Weder dos Santos Silva +3 more
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Introduction to LGBTQ America Today [PDF]
, 2008 l was born in Los Angeles in 1947 and learned from my classmates in seventh grade that boys who wrote with their left hand or wore green and yellow on Thursdays were homos.
Hawley, John C.
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The Temporality of Modernist Life Writing in the Era of Transsexualism: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Einar Wegener’s Man Into Woman [PDF]
, 2013 In this essay, I argue that Woolf’s fantastic novel, Orlando (1928), is more true to the experience of transsexualism than is the allegedly authentic account provided in Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex (1933), the biography-memoir ...
Caughie, Pamela L.
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, 2016 For many decades, the Argentinean travesti (transvestite) community has suffered appalling life conditions due to discrimination, social exclusion and (until the enacting of the Gender Identity Law) official denial of their identities.
Matías Soich
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Sexual diversity, Gender and Social Exclusion in the construction of transvestites’ political consciousness [PDF]
, 2005 O presente ensaio consiste num esforço para refletirmos acerca do universo de travestis e sua situação de grupo excluído. Para tanto, buscamos construir este texto a partir de conceitos como Gênero, Patriarcado, Exclusão Social, Identidade, Diferença e ...
Barboza, Renato +1 more
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Playground of gender : cross-dressing and self-mutilation as negation of gender identity in Tanja Duckers’s Spielzone (1999) [PDF]
, 2014 Although it is an outstanding example of writing life as negotiation of gender roles as well as exploration of the body as site of identity constructs, Tanja Dückers’s novel Spielzone, published in 1999, has not yet received the critical attention it ...
Dautel, Katrin
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