What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment

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Autor(a) principal: Aboim, Sofia
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Vasconcelos, Pedro
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/47763
Resumo: Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the journeys of trans-masculine individuals demonstrate how bodily experiences shape and redefine masculinities in ways that illuminate the nexus between bodies, embodiments, and discursive enactments of masculinity. Rather than oppositions between bodily conformity to and transgression of the norms of hegemonic masculinity, often encountered in idealizations of the medicalized transsexual against the genderqueer rebel, lived bodily experiences shape masculinities beyond linear oppositions. Tensions between natural and technological, material and discursive, or feminine and masculine were keys for understanding trans-masculine narratives about the body, embodiment, and identity.
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spelling What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodimenttrans-masculinitiestrans embodimentsbodily-reflexive practicesmasculinityConfronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the journeys of trans-masculine individuals demonstrate how bodily experiences shape and redefine masculinities in ways that illuminate the nexus between bodies, embodiments, and discursive enactments of masculinity. Rather than oppositions between bodily conformity to and transgression of the norms of hegemonic masculinity, often encountered in idealizations of the medicalized transsexual against the genderqueer rebel, lived bodily experiences shape masculinities beyond linear oppositions. Tensions between natural and technological, material and discursive, or feminine and masculine were keys for understanding trans-masculine narratives about the body, embodiment, and identity.SageRepositório da Universidade de LisboaAboim, SofiaVasconcelos, Pedro2021-05-11T15:18:58Z20222022-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/47763engAccepted version of: Aboim S, Vasconcelos P. (2021). What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment. Men and Masculinities, 25(1), pp. 43-67 First Published April 20, 2021. doi:10.1177/1097184X211008519.1097-184X10.1177/1097184X211008519info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-14T15:35:10ZPortal AgregadorONG
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
title What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
spellingShingle What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
Aboim, Sofia
trans-masculinities
trans embodiments
bodily-reflexive practices
masculinity
title_short What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
title_full What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
title_fullStr What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
title_full_unstemmed What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
title_sort What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment
author Aboim, Sofia
author_facet Aboim, Sofia
Vasconcelos, Pedro
author_role author
author2 Vasconcelos, Pedro
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Aboim, Sofia
Vasconcelos, Pedro
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv trans-masculinities
trans embodiments
bodily-reflexive practices
masculinity
topic trans-masculinities
trans embodiments
bodily-reflexive practices
masculinity
description Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the journeys of trans-masculine individuals demonstrate how bodily experiences shape and redefine masculinities in ways that illuminate the nexus between bodies, embodiments, and discursive enactments of masculinity. Rather than oppositions between bodily conformity to and transgression of the norms of hegemonic masculinity, often encountered in idealizations of the medicalized transsexual against the genderqueer rebel, lived bodily experiences shape masculinities beyond linear oppositions. Tensions between natural and technological, material and discursive, or feminine and masculine were keys for understanding trans-masculine narratives about the body, embodiment, and identity.
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