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Complicating Normal: How Trans People Simultaneously Challenge and Reproduce Heteronormativity

Kassner, Katherine M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1276549634

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2010, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Sociology (Arts and Sciences).
This thesis examines the interactions between trans people and structural heteronormativity. Twenty-five in-depth interviews were conducted with self-identified trans people to assess how interviewees feel they've been affected by structural heteronormativity across the institutions of marriage, family, healthcare, education, and work. Interview questions further examined whether interviewees feel they challenge or reproduce structural heteronormativity. Analytic induction was used to analyze the interview data. Results demonstrate that all interviewees identify that they challenge structural heteronormativity and slightly more than half of interviewees identify that they reproduce structural heteronormativity. However, further analysis of the data suggests that some interviewees may challenge or reproduce heteronormativity at an individual level and had no effect or sometimes the opposite effect at the structural level. These findings were highly dependent on whether interviewees identify themselves as out or stealth as a trans person.
Cynthia D. Anderson (Committee Chair)
Christine Mattley (Committee Member)
Susanne Dietzel (Committee Member)
84 p.
Sociology
trans people; trans identity; sexuality; heteronormativity; gender; LGBTQ

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  • Kassner, K. M. (2010). Complicating Normal: How Trans People Simultaneously Challenge and Reproduce Heteronormativity [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1276549634

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kassner, Katherine. Complicating Normal: How Trans People Simultaneously Challenge and Reproduce Heteronormativity. 2010. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1276549634.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kassner, Katherine. "Complicating Normal: How Trans People Simultaneously Challenge and Reproduce Heteronormativity." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1276549634

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