Doing extra-ordinariness
Trans-Men's Accomplishment of 'Authenticity' in the Research Interview
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2403241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracey Yeadon-Lee (0000-0002-6610-9346, University of Huddersfield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-261 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468794109105033 |
| OpenAlex | W2041225445 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 27 |
Discussions concerning transsexual identities consider the self representations of transsexuals as either determined through medical discourses and practices, and thus as constructed and inauthentic or, alternatively, as expressive of an interior and thus 'authentic' essential self. In contrast to each of these arguments, this article highlights the significance of social interaction to transsexual authenticity and explores, specifically, how this can be analytically captured and presented in the context of interview-based research. The article applies analytic techniques drawn from fine-grain discourse analysis to research interviews carried out with female to male transsexuals. Through this method of analysis transsexual authenticity is treated as neither determined through medical discourses nor as interior to the self, but rather as a 'live' interactional accomplishment. By revealing the discursive identity work undertaken by the interviewees, the article demonstrates a constructionist approach to transsexual authenticity which, contrary to essentialist critiques, succeeds in foregrounding transsexuals as 'constructing subjects
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Foregrounding · Gender identity · Gender Identity Disorder · Linguistics · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Transgender · Transsexual · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social and Educational Sciences · Social Psychology
Interpreting qualitative data
Changing Sex
Gender
Representing Reality
Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis
On doing “being ordinary”
Lectures on Conversation
Self-Made Men
Understanding Qualitative Research and Ethnomethodology
Close encounters of the ‘CA’ kind
Qualitative interviews in psychology
Rescuing narrative from qualitative research
Women with Breast Cancer Talking Causes
Trans(Re)Lations
The Empire Strikes Back
Extreme case formulations
The Transgender Issue
The Socio-Medical Construction of Transsexualism
The art(fulness) of open-ended interviewing
Coming Out and Crossing Over
For a Sociology of Transsexualism
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |