The transgendered Kiwi
Homosocial desire and ‘New Zealand identity’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18955152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anita Brady (0000-0003-1426-7577, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 355-372 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sexualities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363460712436482 |
| OpenAlex | W2328919802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article argues that a performance of transgender is integral to the reproduction of New Zealand’s ‘national identity’. It suggests that because mediated ‘New Zealandness’ relies simultaneously on its exclusive self-conception as masculinity, and a requisite female adjunct to cast the resultant homosociality in heterosexual terms, New Zealand ‘femaleness’ is primarily recognizable as a misperformed masculinity. The gender binary that functions in the service of national identity is not male/female but masculinity as the gendered, and the transgendered, body. In order to demonstrate this, this article uses Judith Butler’s account of melancholic heterosexuality to examine the ‘Southern Man’ campaign devised to market Speight’s beer
Aesthetics · Art · Gender identity · Heterosexuality · Human sexuality · Masculinity · Sociology · Transgender · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |