Queer(y)ing How We See
Seeing someone whose appearance does not align with (often racialized) gender norms can prompt transphobia, a reaction that is as much about what we feel as about what we (think we) know. In this essay, I use what Donovan Schaefer calls “cogency theory” to diagnose, if you will, and ultimately to di...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2025, Volume: 37, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 357-367 |
| Further subjects: | B
Photography
B transmisogynoir B cogency theory B Transphobia B Foucault |
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| Summary: | Seeing someone whose appearance does not align with (often racialized) gender norms can prompt transphobia, a reaction that is as much about what we feel as about what we (think we) know. In this essay, I use what Donovan Schaefer calls “cogency theory” to diagnose, if you will, and ultimately to disrupt transphobic seeing. I find cogency theory helpful because it undoes modern presumptions that knowing (aligned with secularism) and feeling (aligned with religion) are polar opposites; presumptions that, as I describe herein, the practice of photography and its role in modern life also disrupts. I close by experimenting with two examples of art photographs featuring gender nonconforming subjects – one with religious overtones, one without – as resources for disrupting transphobic seeing. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-bja10155 |
