Normative Resistance and Inventive Pragmatism
Normative Resistance and Inventive Pragmatism
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规范的抵抗和创造性的实用主义
DOI：
10.1177/0891243212445467
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发表时间：
2012
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影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Carla A. Pfeffer
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作者：
Carla A. Pfeffer
跨性别个人和家庭使现有的身份分类系统陷入混乱，阐明了早该进行批判性社会学研究的社会法律困境。通过对来自美国和加拿大的50位顺性女性的访谈数据，这些女性详细描述了与跨性别和变性男性的61种独特的伙伴关系，本研究将这个社会群体的务实选择和决策能力（或“代理”）视为嵌入在社会系统、结构和制度中的。本作品提出了“规范抵抗”和“创造性实用主义”的分析结构，以定位这一未被充分研究的顺性女性群体日常生活中机构与结构之间的相互作用过程，并将一种未被充分研究的家庭形式的有限社会法律地位理论化。在这样做的过程中，它揭示了身份、婚姻、规范性和父母身份等社会法律概念日益矛盾的巩固和不稳定——挑战、促进和扩展了当前对21世纪家庭机构和结构的理论和经验理解。
Transgender individuals and families throw existing taxonomic classification systems of identity into perplexing disarray, illuminating sociolegal dilemmas long overdue for critical sociological inquiry. Using interview data collected from 50 cisgender women from across (primarily) the United States and Canada, who detail 61 unique partnerships with transgender and transsexual men, this work considers the pragmatic choices and choice-making capacities (or “agency”) of this social group as embedded within social systems, structures, and institutions. Proposing the analytic constructs of “normative resistance” and “inventive pragmatism” to situate the interactional processes between agency and structure in the everyday lives of this understudied group of cisgender women, this work theorizes the liminal sociolegal status of an understudied family form. In so doing, it exposes the increasingly paradoxical consolidation and destabilization of sociolegal notions of identity, marriage, normativity, and parenthood—challenging, contributing to, and extending current theoretical and empirical understandings of agency and structure in twenty-first-century families.