Fashioning the self: heterosexuality and the social psychological constraints of the wardrobe

Martin Berg

Fashioning the self: heterosexuality and the social psychological constraints of the wardrobe

Martin Berg

Sociology

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Abstract

Broadening conventional sociological concerns, this paper establishes
a social psychological account of queer theory, and an associated
understanding of subject formation, in order to examine the relationship
between the continuously emerging self and the dressed body by
taking its departure in the concept of transvestism. Empirically, this
paper is grounded in an analysis of a large number of digital selfpresentations
and diaries authored by self-identified male to female
transvestites between the ages of 15 and 69 in which notions of self,
body, gender and sexuality have been focused. In this context,
questions are asked concerning the heterosexual matrix, cultural
intelligibility and the importance of the dressed body in the
materialization of a gendered subject.

Original language	English
Publication status	Unpublished - 2005
Event	Frontiers of sociology: The 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 2005 Jul 5 → …

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Conference	Frontiers of sociology: The 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	2005/07/05 → …

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Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)

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Fashioning the self: heterosexuality and the social psychological constraints of the wardrobe

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