Publication details
Diagnóza F 64.0 : Transsexualita optikou sexuologie
| Title in English | Diagnosis F 64.0 : Transsexuality from the Sexological Point of View |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | gender norms ; norms of sexuality ; sexology ; transsexuality |
| Description | This text is an analysis of discourses through which the discipline of sexology, particularly in the context of the Czech republic, conceptualizes transsexuality. Based on the analysis of selected documents, the paper aims to map the essential turning points in the development of the sexological etiology of transsexuality. It also aims to identify the gender assumptions in which this conception of the etiology of transsexuality is embedded. The second part of the paper focuses on how sexological preconceptions of gender and sexuality form conventions of standardized diagnostic procedure, its singular techniques and its criteria for confirming or, on the contrary, disproving the diagnosis of transsexuality. The sexological discourses of transsexuality are theorized from a poststructuralist perspective, which accents the formative aspects of social discourses, and above all the discourses of science. |