Patrícia Soley-Beltran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrícia Soley-Beltran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrícia |
| FAMILY NAME | Soley-Beltran |
| SIGNATURE | SOLEY-BELTRAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4643-3202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transexualidad y Transgénero: Una Perspectiva Bioética
To trans or not to trans?Paradojas de género.¿No hay dos sin tres? ResumenLa transexualidad como práctica y categoría médica es un fenómeno atravesado por cuestiones de bioética.Categorías médicas patologizantes, como "transexualismo" o "transvestismo", operan como productoras y reguladoras de la 'verdad' del género.A continuación, en base a un estudio sociológico, examinaré aspectos del marco social y legal del transgenerismo que ponen de reliev…
Good sex or true sex? Perspectives on gender governance
The medicalization of behaviour not according to stereotyped binary notions of gender identity and sexuality produces a series of pathologizing categories, such as “gender dysphoria”, “transsexuality” or “transvestism” that function as protocols for the providing of care through the production of the ‘truth’ of gender and ‘sex’. After examining the institutionalisation and medicalization of gender identity during the last decade in Spain, in this…
Judith Butler en Disputa: Lecturas sobre la Performatividad
Beyond Butlerophilia or Butlerophobia, the essays gathered in this volume offer an in-depth reading of Judith Butler's work and it is from this careful analysis of her proposal that the book as a whole examines the political implications of the performative turn Butler poses. In this key, performativity is understood as part of a project that goes through all his work, and involves reflection on subjective formations and bodily life in dialogue w…
Muñecas que hablan. Ética y estética de los modelos de belleza en publicidad y moda
Partiendo de datos empíricos cualitativos recogidos en entrevistas con ex-modelos de moda, fuentes orales secundarias y material autoetnográfico, se analiza el proceso de incorporación y representación del ideal de belleza como fruto de un trabajo corporal y emocional de las y los modelos. Dado que este colectivo profesional supuestamente incorpora los ideales estéticos e identitarios propuestos por los medios de comunicación y la publicidad, son…
‘Having words for everything’. Institutionalizing gender migration in Spain (1998-2008)
Working from an interdisciplinary perspective, this article examines the development of gender identity categories and the institutionalization of sex-reassignment procedures based on two different qualitative studies carried out during a 10-year span with transexual and transgendered people, activists and legal experts. In the context of the legal, social and political frameworks regulating gender migration in Spain in the last decade, the data …
Transsexualism in Spain: A Cultural and Legal Perspective
In this paper I will present an overview of the current legal, social and political situation of transsexual and transgendered people in Spain. The study is based on qualitative data gathered from in-depth interviews with transsexual people, transgendered activists and legal experts in Spain, including some aspects of a cross-cultural comparison between Spain and the UK. The empirical study accounts for the development of social policies related …
Modelling Femininity
This article examines fashion models as gender myths and cultural iconsthrough a cultural history of modelling. It reveals the construction of models’ personas by the successive addition of meaningful signs:physique, manner, attitude, nationality, class, race, salary, chameleonism, slenderness and so on. On the basis of empirical material on models’ experiences gathered from interviews, secondary oral sources and autobiographical material, the au…
Modelling Femininity
This article examines fashion models as gender myths and cultural iconsthrough a cultural history of modelling. It reveals the construction of models’ personas by the successive addition of meaningful signs:physique, manner, attitude, nationality, class, race, salary, chameleonism, slenderness and so on. On the basis of empirical material on models’ experiences gathered from interviews, secondary oral sources and autobiographical material, the au…
Transexualidad y Transgénero: Una Perspectiva Bioética
To trans or not to trans?Paradojas de género.¿No hay dos sin tres? ResumenLa transexualidad como práctica y categoría médica es un fenómeno atravesado por cuestiones de bioética.Categorías médicas patologizantes, como "transexualismo" o "transvestismo", operan como productoras y reguladoras de la 'verdad' del género.A continuación, en base a un estudio sociológico, examinaré aspectos del marco social y legal del transgenerismo que ponen de reliev…
Transsexualism in Spain: A Cultural and Legal Perspective
In this paper I will present an overview of the current legal, social and political situation of transsexual and transgendered people in Spain. The study is based on qualitative data gathered from in-depth interviews with transsexual people, transgendered activists and legal experts in Spain, including some aspects of a cross-cultural comparison between Spain and the UK. The empirical study accounts for the development of social policies related …
Modelling Femininity
This article examines fashion models as gender myths and cultural iconsthrough a cultural history of modelling. It reveals the construction of models’ personas by the successive addition of meaningful signs:physique, manner, attitude, nationality, class, race, salary, chameleonism, slenderness and so on. On the basis of empirical material on models’ experiences gathered from interviews, secondary oral sources and autobiographical material, the au…
Transsexualism in Spain: A Cultural and Legal Perspective
In this paper I will present an overview of the current legal, social and political situation of transsexual and transgendered people in Spain. The study is based on qualitative data gathered from in-depth interviews with transsexual people, transgendered activists and legal experts in Spain, including some aspects of a cross-cultural comparison between Spain and the UK. The empirical study accounts for the development of social policies related …
‘Having words for everything’. Institutionalizing gender migration in Spain (1998-2008)
Working from an interdisciplinary perspective, this article examines the development of gender identity categories and the institutionalization of sex-reassignment procedures based on two different qualitative studies carried out during a 10-year span with transexual and transgendered people, activists and legal experts. In the context of the legal, social and political frameworks regulating gender migration in Spain in the last decade, the data …
Judith Butler en Disputa: Lecturas sobre la Performatividad
Beyond Butlerophilia or Butlerophobia, the essays gathered in this volume offer an in-depth reading of Judith Butler's work and it is from this careful analysis of her proposal that the book as a whole examines the political implications of the performative turn Butler poses. In this key, performativity is understood as part of a project that goes through all his work, and involves reflection on subjective formations and bodily life in dialogue w…
Muñecas que hablan. Ética y estética de los modelos de belleza en publicidad y moda
Partiendo de datos empíricos cualitativos recogidos en entrevistas con ex-modelos de moda, fuentes orales secundarias y material autoetnográfico, se analiza el proceso de incorporación y representación del ideal de belleza como fruto de un trabajo corporal y emocional de las y los modelos. Dado que este colectivo profesional supuestamente incorpora los ideales estéticos e identitarios propuestos por los medios de comunicación y la publicidad, son…
Good sex or true sex? Perspectives on gender governance
The medicalization of behaviour not according to stereotyped binary notions of gender identity and sexuality produces a series of pathologizing categories, such as “gender dysphoria”, “transsexuality” or “transvestism” that function as protocols for the providing of care through the production of the ‘truth’ of gender and ‘sex’. After examining the institutionalisation and medicalization of gender identity during the last decade in Spain, in this…
Transexualidad y Transgénero: Una Perspectiva Bioética
To trans or not to trans?Paradojas de género.¿No hay dos sin tres? ResumenLa transexualidad como práctica y categoría médica es un fenómeno atravesado por cuestiones de bioética.Categorías médicas patologizantes, como "transexualismo" o "transvestismo", operan como productoras y reguladoras de la 'verdad' del género.A continuación, en base a un estudio sociológico, examinaré aspectos del marco social y legal del transgenerismo que ponen de reliev…
Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Transgender (3 works)