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Title |
Title of document |
5. Do Bodies Matter? Travestis' Embodiment of (Trans)Gender Identity through the Manipulation of the Brazilian Portuguese Grammatical Gender System - Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Rodrigo Borba; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brazil |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Ana Cristina Ostermann; UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos; Brazil |
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Discipline(s) |
linguistics |
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Keyword(s) |
gender and language; sexuality and language; queer theory; heteronormativity; linguistic analysis; travesti; embodiment; (trans)gender; identity; grammatical gender |
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Subject classification |
gender and language |
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Description |
Abstract |
This study investigates Southern Brazilian travestis’ manipulation of gender identity through the manipulation of the Portuguese grammatical gender system. We argue that the embodiment of feminine features onto biologically male bodies enables travestis to wander through various ideologies about masculinity and femininity and incorporate these ideologies in their linguistic construction of identity. Travestis use masculine forms to refer to themselves or other travestis when: (1) producing narratives about the time before their body transformations took place; (2) reporting speech produced by others when talking about travestis; (3) talking about themselves within their family relationships; and, perhaps the most unveiling category, (4) distinguishing themselves from ‘other’ travestis they do not identify with – a face-saving strategy. Thus, the study shows how southern Brazilian travestis use the grammatical gender system in Portuguese as a linguistic resource to manipulate their identity/ies and the identity/ies of the community they belong to. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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10-Feb-2018 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/30448 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.30448 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |