رسالة جامعية
Beyond the Binary: Serving the Transgender Student, Improving the College Experience
| العنوان: | Beyond the Binary: Serving the Transgender Student, Improving the College Experience |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Finger, Eleanor Ford |
| المصدر: | ProQuest LLC. 2010Ph.D. Dissertation, Washington State University. |
| الإتاحة: | ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway, P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Tel: 800-521-0600; Web site: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| وصف مادي: | |
| Page Count: | 185 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2010 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Two Year Colleges |
| Descriptors: | Sexual Identity, Higher Education, College Students, Student Experience, Student College Relationship, Context Effect, Inclusion, Sexuality, Gender Differences |
| ردمك: | 978-1-124-54900-2 |
| مستخلص: | This research study examines transgender (trans) identity, how it is manifested in trans students, the college and university experiences of these individuals, and how organizational systems hinder, enhance, expand, and redefine trans student success. This study provides a greater understanding of a population that is often misunderstood by fellow students, university administrators, faculty, and staff. Literature and research about trans students are extremely limited within higher education, and knowledge is needed to understand how to better serve trans students as members of the campus community. This study provides insight into how trans students make sense of their gender identity and how it influences all other aspects of their lives. Additionally, it offers guidance for better ways to serve contemporary trans students on campuses today with a sense of inclusion and welcome. The study is based on eighteen interviews with trans students from across the country. A poststructural-feminist theoretical framework guides this study and explores the following themes: Language, subjectivity and the personal daily experience, social processes, institutions, gender differences in organizational structures, and power. As a result of these interviews, knowledge of trans identity is expanded to include more diverse variations of presentation and definition, an understanding of the negative impacts of binary and hetero normative thinking and doing, and the celebration of socially constructed representations of fluid gender, sexuality and sex. This research captures the complex, provocative nature of gender--nonconforming identities and specifically recognizes ways that higher education can improve the trans student experience. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2012 |
| URL الوصول: | http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3445367 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | ED527777 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| ردمك: | 978-1-124-54900-2 |
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