Hormones is not magic wands
Ethnography of a Transgender scene in Oakland, California
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen L Eyre (corresponding author), Rebecca De Guzman, Amy A Donovan, Calvin Boissiere (Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-172 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138104044376 |
| OpenAlex | W2057447672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 31 |
Male-to-female transgenderism is a highly theorized but under-researched topic area which is in need of ethnographic presentation and analysis. This article offers an ethnographic report on a community of African American male-to-female transgender adolescents and young adults living in Oakland, California, seeking to shed light on the culture, language, and behavior of its members. An ethnographer entered into this transgender world, interviewing and observing interactions, including numerous gender performances in a variety of settings. The article situates transgender within various sexual/gender types, using ethnographic and linguistic data to trace the development of the transgender person and to explore issues of performance, sexuality, concealment, disclosure, and stylized 'reading' that are used to police femininity and add wit to the transgender repertoire
Ethnography · Femininity · Human sexuality · Sociology · Transgender · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology
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Figures in Black
Gay New York
Deep Down in the Jungle
Latin American male homosexualities
All Made Up
The Construction of Homosexuality
Sexual meanings, the cultural construction of gender and sexuality
The spirit and the flesh
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
De los otros
Bodies that Matter
HIV among transgendered people
(Dis)Orienting the Body
Gendered Sex Work in the San Francisco Tenderloin
Mema's House, Mexico City
I went to bed with my own kind once
Phenomenology as Method in Trans Studies
Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America
The Berdache and the Illinois Indian Tribe during the Last Half of the Seventeenth Century
Bodies That Matter
Travesti
The Community Function of Tahitian Male Transvestitism
Freeing South Africa
On homosexualities in Latin America (and other places)
Male transvestism and cultural change in Samoa
The calculus of pain
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2019 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |