Creating Emotional Resonance: Interpersonal Emotion Work and Motivational Framing in a Transgender Community

Schrock, Douglas; Holden, Daphne; Reid, Lori L.

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“…While some transsexuals may choose to deny potentially identity-threatening sexual experiences when talking to mental health professionals or others, their quest for authenticity (Bolin, 1988;Mason-Schrock, 1996) and the social risks of transition (Gamson, 1997(Gamson, , 1998Schrock et al, 2004;Sweeney, 2004) likely motivate them to incorporate their sexual experiences into their self-narratives. That is, transsexuals may be spurred to construct sexual stories by self-reflexive questions such as, "Are you sure this is worth it?…”

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“…The first author became acquainted with interviewees during 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork at a support group for crossdressers, transsexuals, and significant others. The interviews and fieldwork, along with transgender community publications, email lists, an online support group, support group newsletters, transgender social movement organizations' appeals, and activist speeches, were part of a larger IRBapproved research project that has examined collective narration in support group meetings (Mason- Schrock, 1996); social movement mobilization (Schrock et al, 2004), and the subjective experience of bodily transformation (Schrock et al, 2005). The present study focuses on interviews because they were the only data to include narratives of intimate life.…”

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“…In addition, research shows that transitioning transsexuals sometimes feel threatened by street harassment and violence, medical and job discrimination, media misrepresentation and public stigmatization, unsympathetic therapists, ministers, and medical doctors, prejudiced police and government bureaucrats, and exclusionary women's groups (Gagne & Tewksbury, 1998;Gamson, 1997Gamson, , 1998Namaste, 2000;Schrock, Holden, & Reid, 2004;Sweeney, 2004). Although support groups help mitigate transsexuals' fear and loneliness (Bolin, 1988;Feinbloom, 1976;Schrock et al, 2004) and changing their material bodies can evoke increased feelings of authenticity and confidence (Gagne et al, 1997;Rubin, 2003;Schrock, Reid, & Boyd, 2005), it should not be surprising that transsexuals in the contemporary political context carefully plumb their sexual biographies for evidence that confirms they are indeed "true" transsexuals.…”

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“…Although support groups help mitigate transsexuals' fear and loneliness (Bolin, 1988;Feinbloom, 1976;Schrock et al, 2004) and changing their material bodies can evoke increased feelings of authenticity and confidence (Gagne et al, 1997;Rubin, 2003;Schrock, Reid, & Boyd, 2005), it should not be surprising that transsexuals in the contemporary political context carefully plumb their sexual biographies for evidence that confirms they are indeed "true" transsexuals. As Plummer (1995) points out, understanding the historical and political context in which people tell sexual stories helps us understand how and why people construct narratives of intimate life.…”

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Transsexuals' Sexual Stories

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2006

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When viewed through a popular cultural lens, male-to-female transsexuals' sexual biographies can appear to indicate male transvestitism, heterosexuality, or homosexuality rather than transsexuality. How do transsexuals subvert such implications and construct transsexual identities? Drawing on K. Plummer's (1995) approach to sexual stories, we examine how nine male-to-female transsexuals construct their sexual pasts to accomplish what sociologists call "identity work." Interviewees used gendered sexual scripts, cultural discourse on the biological basis of male sexual arousal, and a discourse of therapeutic individualism to narratively defetishize autoerotic crossdressing, queer straight sex, refashion transvestic sex, and straighten out gay sex.

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“…Thrift 2004, Barnett 2008. This emotion work (Schrock et al 2004) did present multiple versions of caring, but also precipitated many other outcomes. In the three preceding quotations, those outcomes were, most notably, continued engagement with the Centre, non-judgemental advice, and the eventual recruitment of some parents as carers.…”

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Small acts, kind words and “not too much fuss”: Implicit activisms

Horton

Kraftl

2009

Emotion, Space and Society

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Small acts, kind words and 'not too much fuss' 2 Small acts, kind words and "not too much fuss": implicit activisms AbstractIn this paper, we suggest that social scientists' accounts of 'activism' have too-often tended to foreground and romanticise the grandiose, the iconic, and the unquestionably meaning-ful, to the exclusion of different kinds of 'activism'. Thus, while there is a rich social-scientific literature chronicling a social history of insurrectionary protests and key figures/thinkers, we suggest that there is more to 'activism' (and there are more kinds of 'activism') than this. In short, we argue that much can be learnt from what we term implicit activisms which -being small-scale, personal, quotidian and proceeding with little fanfare -have typically gone uncharted in social-scientific understanding of 'activism'. This paper will reflect upon one example of this kind of 'implicit' activism, by representing findings from interviews undertaken with 150 parents/carers, during an evaluation of a 'Sure Start' Centre in the East Midlands, UK. From these interviews emerged a sense of how the Centre (and the parents/carers, staff and material facilities therein) had come to matter profoundly to these parents/carers. We suggest that these interviews extend and unsettle many social-scientific accounts of 'activism' in three key senses. First: in evoking the specific kinds of everyday, personal, affective bonds which lead people to care. Second: in evoking the kinds of small acts, words and gestures which can instigate and reciprocate/reproduce such care. And third: in suggesting how such everyday, affective bonds and acts can ultimately constitute political activism and commitment, albeit of a kind which seeks to proceed with 'not too much fuss'.

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Resonance, Frame

McCammon¹

2013

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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One of the most utilized concepts in social movement framing studies is “frame resonance.” Snow and Benford (1998) introduced the term to account for the ability of a collective action frame to resonate or appeal to a targeted audience. They ask, “[u]nder what conditions do framing efforts strike a responsive chord or resonate with the targets of mobilization?” (1988: 198). In order to answer this query, one must explore both the properties of the frames themselves and the characteristics of the broader cultural environment in which collective action framing takes place. That is, the source of frame resonance lies in a conjunction of the content of framing and ideational elements in the wider cultural milieu. Frames resonate because a segment of individuals find them convincing, or as Gamson (1992: 135) states, they find them “natural and familiar.” Identifying the precise circumstances in which movement frames achieve this persuasive status, then, is the critical question researchers confront. When will a collective action frame rouse the interests of bystander publics, elected officials, institutional authorities, or potential social movement recruits?

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Creating Emotional Resonance: Interpersonal Emotion Work and Motivational Framing in a Transgender Community

Cited by 132 publications

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Transsexuals' Sexual Stories

Transsexuals' Sexual Stories

Small acts, kind words and “not too much fuss”: Implicit activisms

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