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Gender & Society, Vol. 19, No. 3, 317-335 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0891243204273496
© 2005 Sociologists for Women in Society

Transsexuals’ Embodiment of Womanhood

Douglas Schrock

Florida State University

Lori Reid

Florida State University

Emily M. Boyd

Florida State University

This article draws on in-depth interviews with nine white, middle-class, male-to-female transsexuals to examine how they produce and experience bodily transformation. Interviewees’ bodywork entailed retraining, redecorating, and reshaping the physical body, which shaped their feelings, role-taking, and self-monitoring. These analyses make three contributions: They offer support for a perspective that embodies gender, further transsexual scholarship, and contribute to feminist debate over the sex/gender distinction. The authors conclude by exploring how viewing gender as embodied could influence medical discourse on transsexualism and have personal and political consequences for transsexuals.

Key Words: embodying gender • transsexuals • sex/gender distinction


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