The tyranny of gendered spaces – reflections from beyond the gender dichotomy

Doan, Petra L.

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2010.503121

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“…Thus far scholarship on transgender individuals has primarily focused on the experiences of transgender people in the workplace (Connell 2010;Schilt 2010), family (Pfeffer 2010), public space (Doan 2007), health (Miller and Grollman 2015), and, very recently, religion (Sumerau and Cragun 2015). As these writers note, those interested in unearthing and challenging gender inequalities need to pay heed to the experiences and disparities of transgender people in contemporary U.S. society (Grant et al 2011;Schilt 2010).…”

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Expanding on the Experiences of Transgender Nonreligious People: An Exploratory Analysis

Mathers

2017

Secularism and Nonreligion

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Building on research that points out the specific forms of marginalization that transgender and nonreligious people face in contemporary U.S. society, this exploratory analysis focuses on the experiences of transgender nonreligious people who were raised in religious households. Utilizing interviews with eleven formerly religious, now nonreligious, transgender people I draw out some of the future pathways scholars of nonreligion should take to better account for the lives of transgender nonreligious people in scholarship on nonreligion. Specifically, scholars of nonreligion should begin analyzing transgender nonreligious people's experiences in religious settings, with family, and with organizations and networks outside of religion. I conclude by discussing the ways this study can shed light on the broader processes by which inequality is reproduced and make suggestions for nonreligious leaders to make room for and listen to transgender people in nonreligious spaces.

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Expanding on the Experiences of Transgender Nonreligious People: An Exploratory Analysis

Mathers

2017

Secularism and Nonreligion

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“…This task requires research on gender and embodiment to start to look forward to the future, and hopefully these examples of ecoarchitecture and eco-building begin this work. i Use of the concept of gender as a way to discuss differences between men and women is itself challenged by understandings of transgendered and intersexed people who do not fit the rigid binary distinctions of women/ men and thus transgress gender norms (Doan, 2010).…”

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Bodies, building and bricks: Women architects and builders in eight eco-communities in Argentina, Britain, Spain, Thailand and USA

Pickerill

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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Eco-building is a male domain where men are presumed to be better builders and designers, more men than women build, and women find their design ideas and contributions to ecobuilding are belittled. This paper suggests that a focus on bodies, embodiment and the 'doing' of building is a potentially productive way to move beyond current gender discrimination. This paper makes three key interventions using empirical material from eight case studies of eco-communities in Britain, Thailand, Spain, USA, and Argentina. First, it uses a focus on eco-communities to illustrate the enduring persistence of gender divisions in architecture and building. Second, by using multi-site examples of eco-communities from diverse countries this paper finds more commonalities than differences in gender discrimination across cultures and nationalities. Third, it outlines three spaces of opportunity through which more genderneutral approaches are being developed in eco-building: (a) in challenging the need for 'strong' bodies; (b) by practising more embodied ways of building; and (c) by making visible women's bodies in building. The 'doing' and manual aspect of eco-building is unfamiliar for many (not just women) and interviewees commented on the need to (re)learn how to be practical and to understand the physical possibilities (and limitations) of their bodies.Although much work remains to facilitate more gender-neutral building practices, an embodied approach has enabled women and men to begin to move beyond gender as a 2 defining difference and re-define their building skills and capacities in relation to their diverse bodies.

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“…(Browne and Lim 2010;Doan 2008Doan , 2010Nash 2010Nash , 2013Puar 2007;Richardson 2004Richardson , 2005. Particular normativities now include certain gay men and lesbians and scholarship has turned to examine these so-called homonormativity.…”

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Best for society? Transnational opposition to sexual and gender equalities in Canada and Great Britain

Nash

Browne

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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Abstract:Whilst much has been written about the limitations of new legislative equalities, there is a silence in geographies of sexualities regarding the backlash to these changes and the reiteration of particular heteronormativity. In working across Great Britain and Canada, we argue that these resistances are trans-scalar, operating transnationally as well as evoking nation, classroom, home and body. Arguments at the local level are embedded in and draw on the broader 'natural family' arguments circulating at local/regional, national and transnational levels. Drawing on the literature on transnationalism that understands these processes as (re)forming values and practices, this paper explores the discourses that reiterate the naturalness and centrality of particular forms of heterosexuality as key for a healthy society and the protection of children. The latter works on three levels, firstly the child cannot be 'naturally' produced outside of heterosexual sexual relations. Secondly, the raising of these children appropriately and healthily redefines 'family' within heteronormative structures. Thirdly, comments that might be termed 'homophobic' are reframed as merely free speech as a way to counter LGBT recognition. We finish the paper by arguing for explorations of heterosexuality within transnational networks to resistances to LGBT equalities.

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The tyranny of gendered spaces – reflections from beyond the gender dichotomy

Cited by 293 publications

References 51 publications

Expanding on the Experiences of Transgender Nonreligious People: An Exploratory Analysis

Expanding on the Experiences of Transgender Nonreligious People: An Exploratory Analysis

Bodies, building and bricks: Women architects and builders in eight eco-communities in Argentina, Britain, Spain, Thailand and USA

Best for society? Transnational opposition to sexual and gender equalities in Canada and Great Britain

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