Situating “Fluidity”: (Trans) Gender Identification and the Regulation of Gender Diversity
Situating “Fluidity”: (Trans) Gender Identification and the Regulation of Gender Diversity
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定位“流动性”：（跨）性别认同与性别多样性监管
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2008
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E. Davis
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E. Davis
借鉴巴特勒的性别表演性理论，概念化的话语生产的性别主体和相应的“构成不稳定性”的这种重复的做法，我提供了一个经验主义的社会学检查个人如何谈判潜在的难以理解的身份在他们的日常生活中，在何种程度上，这些做法呼吁质疑的概念二分法的稳定性和流动性。虽然变性人的身体、历史和身份可能会“超出”可理解性的限度，但变性人正在为自己和他人创造意义-创造连贯性的过程中。目前的（跨）性别认同理论还没有充分探讨社会期望，个人的尝试是可信的，和可理解的性别认同的结构性限制之间的相互作用。此外，尽管理论上的论点是性别制度具有强制性和规范性，但性别流动往往与这种规范背道而驰。本文通过探讨跨性别者在不同中介空间中的协商性身份认同，以及建构这种呈现选择的结构性规则和规范，理论化了跨性别差异的语境调节和相应的情境性身份认同的产生。此外，在检查这种谈判，流动性的概念是询问，以复杂化的流动性/稳定性和相应的二分法的跨性别个体的定位，要么模糊或具体化的性别二元的边界的分析二元论。
Drawing on Butler’s theory of gender performativity, which conceptualizes the discursive production of the gendered subject and the corresponding “constitutive instabilities” of such reiterative practices, I provide an empirical sociological examination of how individuals negotiate potentially unintelligible identities in their daily lives and the extent to which these practices call into question the conceptual dichotomization of stability and fluidity. While transsexed bodies, histories, and identities may “exceed” the limits of intelligibility, trans individuals are engaged in the process of meaning making—creating coherence both for themselves and for others. The present theorizing of (trans)gender identification has not fully explored the interaction among social expectations, individuals’ attempts to be credible, and the structural limitations on intelligible gender identifications. In addition, despite theoretical arguments resting on the compulsory, regulatory nature of gender regimes, gender fluidity is often situated as counter to such regulation. By exploring the negotiated identifications of transsexed respondents across different interactional spaces and the structural rules and norms which frame such presentation choices, this article theorizes the contextual regulation of (trans)gender diversity and the corresponding production of situated identification. Further, in examining this negotiation, the concept of fluidity is interrogated in order to complicate the analytic dualism of fluidity/stability and the corresponding dichotomous positioning of transsexed individuals as either blurring or reifying the boundaries of the gender binary.