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Cyborgs, Dolls And Passing Narratives: Trans-Femininity In Popular Music, Quinn J. Troia
Cyborgs, Dolls And Passing Narratives: Trans-Femininity In Popular Music, Quinn J. Troia
Lewis Honors College Thesis Collection
The Cyborg is a figure that has been used by feminist scholars as a metaphor for feminist issues and transgender identity because the embodiment of both transgender people and cyborgs challenges binary understandings of male/femaleness and human/nonhumanness respectively. This comparison has also suggested the potential of reading cyborgs as passing figures who attempt to perform normative social identities; however, scholarship analyzing Cyborg figures has not explored this in ways that are specific to trans-feminine people. By combining contributions from the theory of gender performativity and research on transgender linguistic practices and identity construction, I perform a visual and textual analysis …