Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare

Dancing Outside the Lines

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Reproductive healthcare is choreographically delivered—an intricate collection of seemingly disparate but deftly balanced elements all come together in a complex dance. It is choreographed in ways that presume that the person accessing it—the dancer-patient—will be, among other things, cisgender. As a result, trans people are altogether erased, systematically unanticipated, insufficiently accommodated, or understood only in relation to hegemonic, regulatory frameworks. Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare: Dancing Outside the Lines draws on data from a research study involving qualitative interviews and participatory photography with fourteen trans people from British Columbia, Canada. It uses dance as a metaphor to expose facets of the restrictive choreography of reproductive healthcare, and to document the improvisational tactics used by trans people in their pursuit of care that is competent, safe, and affirming.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-29
Mått160 x 242 x 22 mm
Vikt449 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
Antal sidor216
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666934557

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List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 – Theoretical OrientationChapter 2 – Who I Am and Why It MattersChapter 3 – The Participants and the ProcessChapter 4 – Findings: Navigating Informational ErasureChapter 5 – Findings: Navigating Institutional ErasureChapter 6 – Findings: Navigating Repronormativities and TransnormativitiesChapter 7 – Findings: Navigating Identity Disclosure and ConcealmentConclusionAppendix A: Recruitment and LimitationsAppendix B: On Participatory PhotographyReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Dance and choreography are more than metaphors in A.J. Lowik’s fetching blend of social science and cultural studies. Those terms offer analytically apt descriptions of how reproductive healthcare provisions for trans people seeks to script the movements of providers and recipients alike in certain ways, while the individual participants find ways to move creatively within these structural constraints. In the end, Lowik calls upon us all to imagine new ways of moving together in ways that better serve our lives.