| Summary: | Using a phenomenological approach and the technique of in-depth interviews, this
dissertation investigates how a small sample of gender variant men and women
understand, experience, and relate to the terms used to designate them in academic
literature and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual (LGBT) activism –
namely, ‘transgender’ and ‘transsexual.’ The relevance of such an investigation lies in,
amongst other things, the fact that the corpus of theory – queer - that is most frequently
applied to in order to theorize the lives of such men and women does not pay adequate
attention to the empirical data on their lived experiences.
|
|---|
