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Resisting Definition: Gendering through Interaction and Relational Selfhood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Alexis Shotwell  and
Trevor Sangrey
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Abstract

This paper argues that trans and genderqueer people affect the gender formation and identity of non-trans people. We explore three instances of this relationship between trans and non-trans genders: an allegiance to inadequate liberal-individualist models of selfhood; tropes through which trans people are made to stand as theoretical objects with which to think about gender broadly; and a narrow focus on gender and evasion of an intersectional understanding of gender formation.

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Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities
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Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities , Summer 2009 , pp. 56 - 76
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Copyright © 2009 by Hypatia, Inc.

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