認同的“體”現：打造跨性別

The Em(bodi)ment of Identity: Constructing Transgender

何春蕤(Josephine Ho)

《台灣社會研究季刊》 46期 (2002/06) Pp. 1-43

https://doi.org/10.29816/TARQSS.200206.0001

摘要

這篇論文嘗試具體記錄台灣某些跨性別主體如何在有限的、被排擠的社會資源和空間內積極打造自己的身體和形象，以構築並管理她／他們的身體和認同。本文一方面顯示台灣跨性別身體之社會存在的特殊性(the specificity of trans-gender existence)，以及這些主體在面對社會侷限時所各自簽展出來的動態策略，顯示眾多跨性別主體在性別、年齡、社經地位、外貌、體型等等方面的差異存在條件（這些條件狀態都可能影響到「體現身體」時能有多少說服力）；另方面也想探究跨性別主體在斡旋構築這個社會存在時所逐漸浮現的主體性，也就是探究跨性別主體在管理身體與認同時所做的日復一日打造工程已經在社會文化中投下何種值得觀察的性別變數（而這些打造工程也持續折射「性別的體現」的含意和表現）。

關鍵字

跨性別 ； 體現 ； 性別認同 ； 性別二分主義 ； 性別殊異 ； 性多元 ； 社會建構論 ； 變性 ； 變裝

並列摘要

The present essay attempts to record how some transgendered subjects of Taiwan have worked to construct, out of limited social resources and cultural space, their own bodies and images in order to manage their sexual bodies and gender identities. The essay will describe the specificity of transgender existence in the Taiwanese context as well as the dynamic strategies that these subjects have devised to maneuver their social existence. The differences in their sex, age, socio-economic status, appearance, physique, etc. will be shown to affect the persuasiveness of the embodiment of their identities. Yet, the subjectivities that they have developed in this process of self-construction have also continued to refract the meaning and presentation of gender embodiment in addition to casting new variables in our culture of gender dimorphism.

並列關鍵字

transgender ； embodiment ； gender identity ； sexual dimorphism ； gender variance ； sexual diversity ； social constructionism ； transsexual ； cross-dressing

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