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Kristen Schilt
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Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
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2010
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6 editions
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Goth: Undead Subculture
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2007
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Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology
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“Negotiating these expectations as female-socialized men, transmen can develop a gender "double consciousness" (Du Bois 1903).3 They simultaneously inhabit social space as men and maintain, to varying degrees, an internal repertoire of female-socialized interactional strategies. This double consciousness can generate culture shock as they struggle to synthesize two identities-a female history and a male social identity-that natural differences schemas position as opposing. To gain gender competency, transmen study the idealized qualities that make up a hegemonic understanding of masculinity. As”
― Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
― Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
“I've been the L, G, B, and T. I've done them all.”
― Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
― Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
“As a counterpoint, he offered his own experiences as someone who had lived both as a man and as a woman. Barbara Barres struggled to have her intellectual abilities taken seriously as one of few women in undergraduate and graduate science courses. Yet, when Barbara became Ben, his intellectual capabilities and research suddenly gained more value. Illustrating this change, he wrote, "Shortly after I changed sex, a faculty member was heard to say `Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister's"' (Barres 2006, 134). For Barres, these experiences suggested that he was evaluated as a better scientist when he looked like a man.”
― Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
― Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
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