Regulating Healthy Gender: Surgical Body Modification among Transgender and Cisgender Consumers
Few bodies consistently portray natural or unaltered forms. Instead, humans inhabit bodies imbued with sociocultural meanings about what is attractive, appropriate, functional, and presentable. As such, embodiment is always gendered. The social, extra-corporeal body is a central locus for expressing...
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Digital Archive @ GSU
2011
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| Online Access: | http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/55 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=sociology_diss |