The Question Concerning Endocrinology: Judith Butler's Gender Theory and Transgender Hormone Therapy
Description:
For such a vexing topic as gender identity, this dissertation asks a rather straightforward question: If gender identity is—as Judith Butler has asserted—socially constructed and discursively mediated, then why does transgender hormone therapy (THT) work? This is the question concerning endocrinology that I ask Butler, and their answer is, if requiring of delicate assessment and interpretation, clear: it doesn't. Butler's work reveals an admonishing view that the efficacity of THT is due to pla…
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Date:
July 2023
Creator:
Toole, Violet Ann
Partner:
UNT Libraries