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ISBN:

0037-7791

Accession Number:

12326728

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In this article, we examine how interpersonal emotion work in a transgender support group and motivational framing of transgender social movement organizations together constructed favorable conditions for emotional resonance. We define emotional resonance as the emotional harmony and/or disjuncture between collective action frames and the emotional lives of potential recruits. Data derive from fieldwork, interviews, online e-mail lists and forums, community publications, activist speeches, and social movement organizations' recruitment appeals. Transgendered people joined support groups hoping to find relief from shame, fear, powerlessness, alienation, and inauthenticity. Although group members' emotion work partly accomplished such relief, it was hindered by identity conflicts and the temporal bounds of the meetings. Transgender activists and nascent social movement organizations, however, used motivational framing to promise targeted recruits a more permanent emotional resolution--one which could draw them into the movement. Our analysis moves transgender scholarship beyond issues of identity and moves framing theory beyond an almost exclusive concern with cognitive processes.

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Vol. 51 Issue 1, p61-81 21p

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1541-0889

Accession Number:

19565616

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Reviews the book "When Our Children Come Out: How to Support Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered People," edited by M. Pallotta-Chiarolli.

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Vol. 3 Issue 1, p109-109 1/2p

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ISBN:

0891-7140

Accession Number:

14666187

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The diagnosis and treatment of 271 transgendered patients is described. Characteristics of the transgendered patients seen by the author between 1979 and 2001 reveal four distinct groups not specified in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) description, These characteristics are important because they determine the internal and external difficulties the patients present to the clinician. Statistics on age, gender, relationships, occupation, education, drug/alcohol abuse, secondary diagnoses and sexual orientation of each subgroup are presented and discussed.

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Vol. 8 Issue 1/2, p99-116 18p