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In whose name? a case study of how a small group of gender variant men and women based in Cape Town understand and relate to the terms transgender and transsexual
Using a phenomenological approach and the technique of in-depth interviews, this dissertation investigates how a small sample of gender variant men and women understand, experience, and relate to the terms used to designate them in academic literature and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/T...
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Department of Sociology
2014
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| Summary: | Using a phenomenological approach and the technique of in-depth interviews, this
dissertation investigates how a small sample of gender variant men and women
understand, experience, and relate to the terms used to designate them in academic
literature and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual (LGBT) activism –
namely, ‘transgender’ and ‘transsexual.’ The relevance of such an investigation lies in,
amongst other things, the fact that the corpus of theory – queer - that is most frequently
applied to in order to theorize the lives of such men and women does not pay adequate
attention to the empirical data on their lived experiences. |
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