Normative Aspirations: Sex/Gender Conformative Transsexual Women's Agency and Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Feminist Discourses.
Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Engaging with existing epistemological narratives regarding sex/gender conformative transsexual women's agency and political subjectivity within contemporary modernist and postmodernist feminist discourses, this thesis seeks to demonstrate how prevailing definitions of agency are rooted within a hegemonic epistemological narrative that continues to devaluate normative expressions and experiences of sex/gender. Drawing upon the premises of what Braidotti (2008) has named the post-secular turn in feminism; Haraway's (1988) theory of situated knowledges; and Kolozova's (2014) non-philosophical approach, I seek to propose an alternative epistemological model of situated agencies.
Author: Nina Bresser
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W968455179