California at risk: Vulnerabilities for transgender individuals in Southern California
This project will examine how trans activism in Southern California benefiting certain groups of transgender individuals might create new marginality and vulnerability for other groups of transgend
Vulnerabilities for Transgender Individuals Essay Bibliography
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Transgender Vulnerabilities
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Ethnosketch: Historicizing a Project
These are the events of particular importance to this project, from both an etic and emic perspective.
Ethnosketch: Competing Hegemonies
This is a critical analysis of the interacting hegemonies shaping the ground on which this project will be based.
Ethnosketch: Ethnographic Data Types
These are types of data to be collected during this study.
Ethnosketch: Hierarchy of Questions
These are research questions of the study and interview questions to be asked during interviews with professionals.
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maryclare.crochiere"It is tempting for a medical social scientist to enumerate the cultural beliefs concerning thecause and workings of epilepsy, then compare these with beliefs in other societies. People of course reason about illness, and culture provides the logic of that rationality. I have resisted, however, focusing on the structure of reasoning. The transformation of these narratives and the modes of aesthetic response associated with stories into "beliefs" or "explanation" would be extremely misleading."
"I began this chapter with questions about the relation of "fainting" to "epilepsy" in Turkish culture provoked by Meliha Hanim' s stories about her illness. Through the course of our research it became clear that epilepsy belongs in popular discourse to the larger domain of "fainting." This should come as no surprise, not only because fainting is less stigmatizing than epilepsy in Turkish culture."
"Emine was silent. Her story was told exclusively by those around her."
This is the Abstract of “California at Risk: Vulnerabilities for Transgender Individuals in Southern California."