Department of Cultural Sciences / Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

Permanent URI for this communityhttps://gupea-staging.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/21432

Browse

Browsing Department of Cultural Sciences / Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper by Author "Alvå, Hannah"

Filter results by typing the first few letters
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    “Den får finnas, i sig själv” - En intervjustudie om upplevelser av kroppen: normer, tillfredsställelse och (icke-)binära ideal hos transpersoner
    (2022-05-17) Alvå, Hannah; Edstam, Hanna; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
    Norms regarding body size and shape are often based on binary, cisnormative ideals. The relationship to one’s body can become complicated when these norms are the only ones presented as available. As a transgender person, the relationship to these norms can be even more complicated because of one not being cisgender. A body positive movement has arisen as a resistance to bodily norms, but people speaking from a trans perspective have addressed a lack in this movement of non-cisnormative perspectives. The narrative in the body positive movement is that one should accept one’s body as it is - but what if changing the body is one’s way of loving it? Through interviews, the purpose of this study is to examine how transgender persons experience bodily norms. By plugging in queer theory on normativity and power, this study gives a picture of the variating experiences of society’s interaction with the body. What norms are there and how do the participants’ experiences of these norms correlate with each other? The participants also present their view on body positivity and what possibilities or difficulties they experience in feeling comfortable in their bodies. What comes to show is that binary norms have an effect both on people who align with them and those who find themselves in between polarities.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    ”The greater dysphoria I’ve had, the greater dysmorphia - they work together” - An interview study on trans and nonbinary experiences of seeking and participating in Swedish eating disorder treatment
    (2023-07-05) Alvå, Hannah; University of Gothenburg/Department of Cultural Sciences; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper
    The accessibility of eating disorder treatment for trans and nonbinary individuals has for long been an overlooked approach within research as well as in practice both internationally and in Sweden. By analysing four interviews with care seekers who identify as trans and/or nonbinary, the purpose of this study is therefore to map out the norms and discourses that shape the accessibility and applicability of Swedish eating disorder treatment. Through a mixed method of thematic and Foucauldian discourse analysis, the material has been structured around common themes that make visible power relations and discursive practices both within and outside treatment. The results show that the societal as well as clinical discourses of eating disorders are attached with cisnormativity as well as norms of gender and body shape. This limits other embodiments of the illness and thereby also the possibility of being recognised both within and outside the treatment. The accessibility and applicability of eating disorder treatment for trans and nonbinary care seekers is found to be limited by normative understandings of who gets affected as well as standardised methods of treatment.