J R Latham
Biographic Data
| ID | 22566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J R Latham |
| GIVEN NAMES | J R |
| FAMILY NAME | Latham |
| SIGNATURE | LATHAM J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3705-4577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Resisting and Remaking Sex in the Petri Dish, the Clinic, and on the Track
Assemblages of sex are continuously being enacted by policymakers, scientists, and medical providers across a range of settings, resulting in multiple and often contradictory notions of what “sex” is and how it is expressed in the body. As feminist scholars have shown, such enactments are mutable yet resilient, often with the net effect of restricting how “sex” can emerge as a material dimension of our embodied, lived experiences. What happens wh…
Experiences of LGBTIQA+ People with Disability in Healthcare and Community Services: Towards Embracing Multiple Identities
Healthcare and disability support services are increasing their efforts towards inclusion and recognising the needs of different groups. This research project was conducted by academic and peer researchers (LGBTIQA+ people with disability) in Victoria, Australia using four focus groups with LGBTIQA+ people with disability. We report on two overarching themes relating to participants' experiences of accessing health services as LGBTIQA+ people wit…
Maintaining the healthy body: Blood management and hepatitis C prevention among men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs
Axiomatic: Constituting ‘transexuality’ and trans sexualities in medicine
This article argues that medicine misunderstands the necessarily complex ways trans people experience sexuality. Despite revisions to treatment guidelines and diagnostic descriptions, transgender medicine continues to be based on a paradigmatic narrative of ‘being born in the wrong body’. This narrative performatively reproduces sex, gender and ‘gender dysphoria’ as static, predetermined and independent of medical encounters. It also constructs t…
Men's Performance and Image-Enhancing Drug Use as Self-Transformation: Working Out in Makeover Culture
© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article investigates how men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) describe their experiences of embodiment and masculinity, locating that analysis in the context of contemporary ‘makeover culture’ and the imperatives of self-transformation. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews we conducted with 60 men who inject PIEDs in Australia, our analysis suggests …
A 'messenger of sex'? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Health Sociology Review. Renae Fomiatti, J. R. Latham, Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Kate Seear & Campbell Aitken (2019) A ‘messenger of sex’? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting, Health Sociology Review, 28:3, 323-338, DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2019.1678398. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Common…
Trans Surgeries and Cosmetic Surgeries
This article examines the various possibilities for making an analogy or disanalogy between cosmetic and trans surgeries, focusing on the suggestion that trans surgeries are medically necessary while cosmetic surgeries are not—a position that has a great deal of rhetorical force. The authors argue that this disanalogy both fails to understand the complexity of the justifications used by recipients of these diverse surgeries and should be seen as …
Making and Treating Trans Problems: The Ontological Politics of Clinical Practices
This essay investigates a divergence between medical and autobiographical accounts of transexuality. By analyzing a letter to the editor in the journal Aesthetic Plastic Surgery that defends trans patients as a “special case” (Selvaggi and Giordano, 2014), I examine how medicine produces trans patients as a separate category of patients. The differential treatment paths of trans and nontrans people who pursue “gender-enhancing” medical interventi…
(Re)making sex: A praxiography of the gender clinic
This article traces the multiple enactments of sex in clinical practices of transgender medicine to argue against the presumed singularity of 'transexuality'. Using autoethnography to analyse my own experience as a trans patient, I describe my clinical encounters with doctors, psychiatrists and surgeons in order to theorise sex as multiple. Following recent developments in science and technology studies (STS) that advance the work of Judith Butle…
Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies
Clinical expectations that trans people will be so filled with self-loathing that sexual interactions will be limited if possible at all fail to take into account the heterogeneous ways trans people experience their own bodies and sexualities. In this essay, I extend recent work in science and technology studies (STS) that attends to material practices by examining the work of narrative and argue for a new paradigm in situating trans sexualities.…
Triangular Graphs
(Re)making sex: A praxiography of the gender clinic
This article traces the multiple enactments of sex in clinical practices of transgender medicine to argue against the presumed singularity of 'transexuality'. Using autoethnography to analyse my own experience as a trans patient, I describe my clinical encounters with doctors, psychiatrists and surgeons in order to theorise sex as multiple. Following recent developments in science and technology studies (STS) that advance the work of Judith Butle…
Men's Performance and Image-Enhancing Drug Use as Self-Transformation: Working Out in Makeover Culture
© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article investigates how men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) describe their experiences of embodiment and masculinity, locating that analysis in the context of contemporary ‘makeover culture’ and the imperatives of self-transformation. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews we conducted with 60 men who inject PIEDs in Australia, our analysis suggests …
A 'messenger of sex'? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Health Sociology Review. Renae Fomiatti, J. R. Latham, Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Kate Seear & Campbell Aitken (2019) A ‘messenger of sex’? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting, Health Sociology Review, 28:3, 323-338, DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2019.1678398. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Common…
Trans Surgeries and Cosmetic Surgeries
This article examines the various possibilities for making an analogy or disanalogy between cosmetic and trans surgeries, focusing on the suggestion that trans surgeries are medically necessary while cosmetic surgeries are not—a position that has a great deal of rhetorical force. The authors argue that this disanalogy both fails to understand the complexity of the justifications used by recipients of these diverse surgeries and should be seen as …
Making and Treating Trans Problems: The Ontological Politics of Clinical Practices
This essay investigates a divergence between medical and autobiographical accounts of transexuality. By analyzing a letter to the editor in the journal Aesthetic Plastic Surgery that defends trans patients as a “special case” (Selvaggi and Giordano, 2014), I examine how medicine produces trans patients as a separate category of patients. The differential treatment paths of trans and nontrans people who pursue “gender-enhancing” medical interventi…
Triangular Graphs
Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies
Clinical expectations that trans people will be so filled with self-loathing that sexual interactions will be limited if possible at all fail to take into account the heterogeneous ways trans people experience their own bodies and sexualities. In this essay, I extend recent work in science and technology studies (STS) that attends to material practices by examining the work of narrative and argue for a new paradigm in situating trans sexualities.…
Making and Treating Trans Problems: The Ontological Politics of Clinical Practices
This essay investigates a divergence between medical and autobiographical accounts of transexuality. By analyzing a letter to the editor in the journal Aesthetic Plastic Surgery that defends trans patients as a “special case” (Selvaggi and Giordano, 2014), I examine how medicine produces trans patients as a separate category of patients. The differential treatment paths of trans and nontrans people who pursue “gender-enhancing” medical interventi…
(Re)making sex: A praxiography of the gender clinic
This article traces the multiple enactments of sex in clinical practices of transgender medicine to argue against the presumed singularity of 'transexuality'. Using autoethnography to analyse my own experience as a trans patient, I describe my clinical encounters with doctors, psychiatrists and surgeons in order to theorise sex as multiple. Following recent developments in science and technology studies (STS) that advance the work of Judith Butle…
Trans Surgeries and Cosmetic Surgeries
This article examines the various possibilities for making an analogy or disanalogy between cosmetic and trans surgeries, focusing on the suggestion that trans surgeries are medically necessary while cosmetic surgeries are not—a position that has a great deal of rhetorical force. The authors argue that this disanalogy both fails to understand the complexity of the justifications used by recipients of these diverse surgeries and should be seen as …
Axiomatic: Constituting ‘transexuality’ and trans sexualities in medicine
This article argues that medicine misunderstands the necessarily complex ways trans people experience sexuality. Despite revisions to treatment guidelines and diagnostic descriptions, transgender medicine continues to be based on a paradigmatic narrative of ‘being born in the wrong body’. This narrative performatively reproduces sex, gender and ‘gender dysphoria’ as static, predetermined and independent of medical encounters. It also constructs t…
Men's Performance and Image-Enhancing Drug Use as Self-Transformation: Working Out in Makeover Culture
© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article investigates how men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) describe their experiences of embodiment and masculinity, locating that analysis in the context of contemporary ‘makeover culture’ and the imperatives of self-transformation. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews we conducted with 60 men who inject PIEDs in Australia, our analysis suggests …
A 'messenger of sex'? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Health Sociology Review. Renae Fomiatti, J. R. Latham, Suzanne Fraser, David Moore, Kate Seear & Campbell Aitken (2019) A ‘messenger of sex’? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting, Health Sociology Review, 28:3, 323-338, DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2019.1678398. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Common…
Resisting and Remaking Sex in the Petri Dish, the Clinic, and on the Track
Assemblages of sex are continuously being enacted by policymakers, scientists, and medical providers across a range of settings, resulting in multiple and often contradictory notions of what “sex” is and how it is expressed in the body. As feminist scholars have shown, such enactments are mutable yet resilient, often with the net effect of restricting how “sex” can emerge as a material dimension of our embodied, lived experiences. What happens wh…
Experiences of LGBTIQA+ People with Disability in Healthcare and Community Services: Towards Embracing Multiple Identities
Healthcare and disability support services are increasing their efforts towards inclusion and recognising the needs of different groups. This research project was conducted by academic and peer researchers (LGBTIQA+ people with disability) in Victoria, Australia using four focus groups with LGBTIQA+ people with disability. We report on two overarching themes relating to participants' experiences of accessing health services as LGBTIQA+ people wit…
Maintaining the healthy body: Blood management and hepatitis C prevention among men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (7 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)