Alyssa Lynne-Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 383813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alyssa Lynne-Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alyssa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynne-Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | LYNNE-JOSEPH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wichita State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1738-447X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sameness across Difference
Joining a growing body of research calling for the integration of social analysis and postcolonial theory, recent work in medical sociology has analyzed health, illness, and medicine from a postcolonial lens. In this article, I argue for a postcolonial feminist approach to medical sociology that builds on this extant work while challenging methodological nationalism and cultural essentialism. Based on an analysis of gender-affirming health care f…
The reproduction of knowledge hierarchies in transgender medicine
As a clinician, you have to be passionately involved
Thai trans women’s agency and the destigmatisation of HIV-related care
Until recently, trans women have been subsumed within the category of men who have sex with men for HIV-related care. Following a 2016 UNAIDS report finding that trans women globally are 49 times more likely to be living with HIV than the general population, health programmes have sought to expand their reach to this key population. Yet, trans women are often treated as passive subjects to be recruited into programming or clinical trials for HIV-…
Paired Double Consciousness
Sociologists have not adequately explored how Du Bois' concept of double consciousness could be used to study the role of cisnormative oppression in self-formation or how it could enrich studies of self-formation beyond the Atlantic world. This article addresses these gaps by merging postcolonial feminist theory and the concept of double consciousness to analyze kathoey self-formation. Kathoey are gender nonconforming (GNC) individuals in Thailan…
Paired Double Consciousness
Sociologists have not adequately explored how Du Bois' concept of double consciousness could be used to study the role of cisnormative oppression in self-formation or how it could enrich studies of self-formation beyond the Atlantic world. This article addresses these gaps by merging postcolonial feminist theory and the concept of double consciousness to analyze kathoey self-formation. Kathoey are gender nonconforming (GNC) individuals in Thailan…
The reproduction of knowledge hierarchies in transgender medicine
Paired Double Consciousness
Sociologists have not adequately explored how Du Bois' concept of double consciousness could be used to study the role of cisnormative oppression in self-formation or how it could enrich studies of self-formation beyond the Atlantic world. This article addresses these gaps by merging postcolonial feminist theory and the concept of double consciousness to analyze kathoey self-formation. Kathoey are gender nonconforming (GNC) individuals in Thailan…
Thai trans women’s agency and the destigmatisation of HIV-related care
Until recently, trans women have been subsumed within the category of men who have sex with men for HIV-related care. Following a 2016 UNAIDS report finding that trans women globally are 49 times more likely to be living with HIV than the general population, health programmes have sought to expand their reach to this key population. Yet, trans women are often treated as passive subjects to be recruited into programming or clinical trials for HIV-…
As a clinician, you have to be passionately involved
The reproduction of knowledge hierarchies in transgender medicine
Sameness across Difference
Joining a growing body of research calling for the integration of social analysis and postcolonial theory, recent work in medical sociology has analyzed health, illness, and medicine from a postcolonial lens. In this article, I argue for a postcolonial feminist approach to medical sociology that builds on this extant work while challenging methodological nationalism and cultural essentialism. Based on an analysis of gender-affirming health care f…
LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Transgender (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (2 works)