CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Koletnik, Anja |
|---|---|
| Title | Ethical trans-feminism: Berlin's transgender individuals' narratives as contributions to ethics of vegetarian eco-feminisms |
| Summary | This thesis will explore multi-directional ethical and political implications of meat non-consumption and cisgender non-conformity. My argument will present how applying transgender as an analytical category to vegetarian eco-feminisms, can be contributive in expanding ethical and political solidarity within feminist projects, which apply gender identity politics to their conceptualizations and argumentations. I will outline the potential to transcend usages of gender identity politics upon a cisnormative canon of vegetarian eco-feminisms lead by Carol J. Adams’ The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990). Adams’s canon of vegetarian eco-feminisms appropriates diet as a central resource of their political projects, which contest speciesism and cis-sexism. Like Adams’ canon, my analysis will also consider diet as always having political connotations and implications, both for individuals and their embodiments, and broader socio-political realms. Alongside diet, transgender as an analytical category will be employed within analysis, due to its potential of exposing how genders as social categories and constructs are re-formed. My analysis will be based on narrative interviews, which will explore the multi-directional ethical and political implications of meat non-consumption and cisgender non-conformity among members of Berlin’s transgender / cisgender non-conforming and meat non-consuming subcultures. Acknowledging the correlations of material instances and discursive notions, as exemplified by meat non-consumption and transgender / cisgender non-conforming identifications, can therefore enhance ethical and political solidarity of feminisms, and enable transcending limiting gender binary systems and usages of gender identity politics within feminist projects. I will follow feminist new materialisms and transgender studies, which highlight the great importance of including materialities, embodiments and lived experiences into analysis of socio-cultural and political notions. Tracing the notion of ‘ethical trans-feminism’ will thus be presented through juxtaposing ethics with usages of notions of genders by vegetarian eco-feminisms, feminist new materialisms and transgender studies. |
| Supervisor | Timar, Eszter |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/koletnik_anja.pdf |
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