Fashioning the self: heterosexuality and the social psychological constraints of the wardrobe
(2005) Frontiers of sociology: The 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology- Abstract
- Broadening conventional sociological concerns, this paper establishes
a social psychological account of queer theory, and an associated
understanding of subject formation, in order to examine the relationship
between the continuously emerging self and the dressed body by
taking its departure in the concept of transvestism. Empirically, this
paper is grounded in an analysis of a large number of digital selfpresentations
and diaries authored by self-identified male to female
transvestites between the ages of 15 and 69 in which notions of self,
body, gender and sexuality have been focused. In this context,
questions are asked concerning the heterosexual matrix,... (More) - Broadening conventional sociological concerns, this paper establishes
a social psychological account of queer theory, and an associated
understanding of subject formation, in order to examine the relationship
between the continuously emerging self and the dressed body by
taking its departure in the concept of transvestism. Empirically, this
paper is grounded in an analysis of a large number of digital selfpresentations
and diaries authored by self-identified male to female
transvestites between the ages of 15 and 69 in which notions of self,
body, gender and sexuality have been focused. In this context,
questions are asked concerning the heterosexual matrix, cultural
intelligibility and the importance of the dressed body in the
materialization of a gendered subject. (Less)
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- Berg, Martin LU
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- 2005
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- keywords
- sociology, sociologi
- conference name
- Frontiers of sociology: The 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology
- conference location
- Stockholm, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2005-07-05
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- English
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abstract = {{Broadening conventional sociological concerns, this paper establishes<br/><br>
a social psychological account of queer theory, and an associated<br/><br>
understanding of subject formation, in order to examine the relationship<br/><br>
between the continuously emerging self and the dressed body by<br/><br>
taking its departure in the concept of transvestism. Empirically, this<br/><br>
paper is grounded in an analysis of a large number of digital selfpresentations<br/><br>
and diaries authored by self-identified male to female<br/><br>
transvestites between the ages of 15 and 69 in which notions of self,<br/><br>
body, gender and sexuality have been focused. In this context,<br/><br>
questions are asked concerning the heterosexual matrix, cultural<br/><br>
intelligibility and the importance of the dressed body in the<br/><br>
materialization of a gendered subject.}},
author = {{Berg, Martin}},
keywords = {{sociology; sociologi}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Fashioning the self: heterosexuality and the social psychological constraints of the wardrobe}},
year = {{2005}},
}