Cross-dressing as a meaningful occupation: A single case study

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Curtis, Morag and Morris, Karen (2015) Cross-dressing as a meaningful occupation: a single case study. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 78 (11). pp. 706-712.Downloaded from: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2032/ Usage of any items from the University of Cumbria's institutional repository 'Insight' must conform to the following fair usage guidelines.Any item and its associated metadata held in the University of Cumbria's institutional repository Insight (unless stated otherwise on the metadata record) may be copied, displayed or performed, and stored in line with the JISC fair dealing guidelines (available here) for educational and not-for-profit activities provided that• the authors, title and full bibliographic details of the item are cited clearly when any part of the work is referred to verbally or in the written form• a hyperlink/URL to the original Insight record of that item is included in any citations of the work • the content is not changed in any way• all files required for usage of the item are kept together with the main item file. You may not• sell any part of an item• refer to any part of an item without citation • amend any item or contextualise it in a way that will impugn the creator's reputation• remove or alter the copyright statement on an item.The full policy can be found here. Alternatively contact the University of Cumbria Repository Editor by emailing insight@cumbria.ac.uk. Cross-dressing as a meaningful occupation: A single case study Morag Curtis and Karen Morris AbstractIntroduction: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of crossdressing, to raise awareness of cross-dressing and investigate any possible implications for occupational therapy.

How Qualitative Case Study Methodology Informs Occupational Therapy Practice: A Scoping Review

“…A description of the included studies is provided in Table 1. The majority of the included studies were published in occupational therapy journals (n = 20; Adami & Evetts, 2012;Basiletti & Townsend, 2012;Campbell & Turpin, 2010;Carmody et al, 2007;Copley, Turpin, & King, 2010;Curtis & Morris, 2015;Dunstan & Griffiths, 2008;Haltiwanger & Underwood, 2011;Hess & Ramugondo, 2014;Ineson, 2015;Johansson, Borell, & Lilja, 2009;Leclair et al, 2013;Nord, Eakin, Astley, & Atkinson, 2009;Price, Kinghorn, Patrick, & Cardell, 2012;Robinson & Penman, 2011;Roy, Rousseau, Fortier, & Mottard, 2009;Sonday & Gretschel, 2016;Stube & Jedlicka, 2007;Unsworth, 2011;Zimolag & Krupa, 2009), with the highest number of studies being published in the British Journal of Occupational Therapy (n = 6; Basiletti & Townsend, 2012;Curtis & Morris, 2015;Hess & Ramugondo, 2014;Ineson, 2015;Nord et al, 2009;Roy et al, 2009; Table 1). Studies published in nonspecific occupational therapy journals were featured in the disability, education, work, psychiatry, and rehabilitation fields.…”

“…Studies were conducted in the United States (n = 5; Adami & Evetts, 2012;Crepeau & Garren, 2011;Haltiwanger & Underwood, 2011;Price et al, 2012;Stube & Jedlicka, 2007), the United Kingdom (n = 5; Curtis & Morris, 2015;Ineson, 2015;Morris, Cox, & Ward, 2016;Nord et al, 2009;Reagon, Bellin, & Boniface, 2008), Canada (n = 5; Basiletti & Townsend, 2012;Hauck & Chard, 2009;Leclair et al, 2013;Roy et al, 2009;Zimolag & Krupa, 2009), Australia (n = 4; Campbell & Turpin, 2010;Copley, Turpin, Brosnan, & Nelson, 2008;Copley et al, 2010;Unsworth, 2011), South Africa (n = 4; Hess & Ramugondo, 2014;Hess-April, Smith, & de Jongh, 2016;Soeker, 2015;Sonday & Gretschel, 2016), Sweden (n = 1; Johansson et al, 2009), New Zealand (n = 2; Dunstan & Griffiths, 2008;Robinson & Penman, 2011), and Ireland (n = 1; Carmody et al, 2007).…”

“Some of us actually choose to do this”: The meanings of sex work from the perspective of female sex workers in Denmark

“…Participants in this study expressed how their engagement in sex work had forced them to challenge the norms of society, leading to internal conflicts regarding how they feel about what they do. Inner conflict was also identified in a case-study on crossdressing, where the participant explained how he finally came to terms with his crossdressing, seeing it as an important and valuable part of who he was, despite the judgement of others (Curtis & Morris, 2015). Hammell (2004) argued that the traditional way of dividing occupations into the categories of self-care, productivity, and leisure is inadequate and that occupations should rather be addressed in terms of how they are experienced as having meaning in people's lives.…”

“…These viewpoints exposed them to prejudice, resulting in making them lead double lives and forcing them to challenge the norms of society. The findings of this study will be discussed using the theoretical framework of doing, being, becoming and belonging (Wilcock & Hocking, 2015), engaging occupations (Jonsson, 2008), occupational justice (Stadnyk et al, 2010), and research on the meanings attributed to occupations (Curtis & Morris, 2015;Roberts & Bannigan, 2018).…”

“…To some extent, risky (Haines et al, 2010;Illman et al, 2013) and non-sanctioned occupations such as problematic drug and food consumption (Cloete & Ramugondo, 2015;Elliot, 2012;Kiepek & Magalhães, 2011;Luck & Beagan, 2015), tagging (a type of graffiti) (Russell, 2008), crossdressing (wearing clothes commonly associated with the opposite sex) (Curtis & Morris, 2015), binge drinking (Jennings & Cronin-Davis, 2016) and resistive occupations (Pyatak & Muccitelli, 2011) have been explored. However, Kiepek et al (2019) identified that there is still a need for further research in relation to non-sanctioned occupations.…”