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A new materialist approach to transmasculinity: Bodies, acts, and objects.

Van Midde, Max LU (2016) SIMV19 20161
Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender
Abstract
This study explores a transmasculine embodiment through bodies, acts, and objects,
from a new materialist perspective. The study is situated within the field of
transgender studies, and the research question, ‘how can transmasculine
embodiment through the materialities of the body and everyday acts and objects be
understood through new materialism’, is answered through an autoethnography.
Key findings are that a) a trans-becoming emerges through the phenomenon of
meeting someone’s eyes, b) through material-discursive practices transmasculine
people work with and against the body, and c) onto-epistemologies of race and
gender emerge through the interplay of temporal, spatial, and corporeal processes.
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author
Van Midde, Max LU
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organization
course
SIMV19 20161
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
new materialism, transmasculinity, agential realism, transgender studies, autoethnography
language
English
additional info
** Automatic update: Record was moved from International Office (LURS00001), School of Social Work (012016000) to Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender (LURS00003) at 2026-02-09 11:34:49
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8890736
date added to LUP
2016-09-29 16:03:36
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2026-02-09 11:34:49
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  abstract     = {{This study explores a transmasculine embodiment through bodies, acts, and objects,
from a new materialist perspective. The study is situated within the field of
transgender studies, and the research question, ‘how can transmasculine
embodiment through the materialities of the body and everyday acts and objects be
understood through new materialism’, is answered through an autoethnography.
Key findings are that a) a trans-becoming emerges through the phenomenon of
meeting someone’s eyes, b) through material-discursive practices transmasculine
people work with and against the body, and c) onto-epistemologies of race and
gender emerge through the interplay of temporal, spatial, and corporeal processes.}},
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  title        = {{A new materialist approach to transmasculinity: Bodies, acts, and objects.}},
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