Re-inhabiting an uninhabitable body: interventions in voice production with transsexual men

Author: McNamara, Catherine¹

Source: Research in Drama Education, Volume 12, Number 2, June 2007 , pp. 195-206(12)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This article suggests that interventions in voice production are an important and, at present, under-developed aspect of emergent masculine identities for transsexual men. The practice at the heart of the discussion is the ongoing Transvoices Project for which the author has been Project Coordinator. Reassigning bodily gender involves a process of re-inhabiting a previously uninhabitable body and the project looks to positively support that process.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/13569780701321070

Affiliations: 1: Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK

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