What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
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Confronted with the centrality of body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back political sociological agendas, propose practice is a concept suited account production trans-masculinities. Although multiple, journeys demonstrate bodily experiences shape redefine masculinities ways illuminate nexus between bodies, embodiments, discursive enactments Rather than oppositions conformity transgression norms hegemonic masculinity, often encountered idealizations medicalized transsexual against genderqueer rebel, lived beyond linear oppositions. Tensions natural technological, material discursive, or feminine masculine were keys understanding narratives about body, embodiment, identity.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Men and Masculinities
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1097-184X', '1552-6828']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184x211008519