Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort : body as social signum

Perger, Nina (avtor)

Transgender embodiment and transgender-related bodily discomfort have been discussed primarily from a medical perspective that downplays the role of society in shaping one’s orientation towards the body. Drawing on qualitative data on the everyday lives of non-binary individuals, the article analyses the phenomenon of transgender bodily discomfort or bodily dysphoria using a Bourdieusian framework. The data show that bodily discomfort arises in relation to the bodily parts, characteristics and processes that are most heavily invested as being the parts that supposedly tell the ‘truth’ about one’s gender, and in relation to the bodily hexis that is socially recognised as being indicative of one’s gender. The analysis shows that the embodied socially dominant schemes of perception and classifications on which a binary body typology is based contribute to the rise of transgender-related bodily discomfort. Thus, despite the bodily discomfort being individually manifested and experienced, it is (also) the socially embodied – the social body – that reaches out through the discomfort of a socialised body.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: bodily discomfort, bodily dysphoria, Bourdieu, gender, non-binary
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2024
• Št. strani: Str. 213–232
• Številčenje: Vol. 72, iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-149241
• UDK: 305
• ISSN pri članku: 0038-0261
• DOI: 10.1177/00380261231189049
• COBISS.SI-ID: 161649667
• Datum objave v RUL: 05.09.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Sociological review
• Skrajšan naslov: Social. rev.
• Založnik: SAGE, The Sociological Review Publication Limited
• ISSN: 0038-0261
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26414848

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P5-0183
• Naslov: Socialna psihologija in sociologija vsakdanjega življenja

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Program financ.: Young researchers