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- Title
A ROUPA EXPRESSA A IDENTIDADE: MODA ENQUANTO TECNOLOGIA DE GÊNERO NA EXPERIÊNCIA TRANSGÊNERO.
- Authors
Wittmann, Isabel
- Abstract
This article explores fashion as a technology of gender, and its capability of creating gender through discourses or practices. By reviewing transgender experiences, the author discusses how clothes encode meanings and convey the expression of femininities and masculinities. On the other hand, the article questions the very notion of what would be feminine or a masculine fashion objects, as those are used according to the necessity of expression of subjectivities, negotiating bodies and identities. The author presents the perceived conflicts between these subjectivities and the norms that involve clothing, especially when it comes to family and school, two outstanding normalization agents. It is emphasized that narratives, in their plurality, should not be read as a monolithic expression of the transgender experience, but as a sample of the relation between performativity and fashion.
- Publication
Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia, 2019, Vol 8, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
2238-0361
- Publication type
Article