posted on 2018-01-10, 10:28authored bySaoirse Caitlin O'Shea
In this article I discuss and critique transphobic media reactions to the celebrity Caitlyn Jenner’s 2015 Vanity Fair cover shoot. I then consider these in the light of Garfinkel, H. [1967. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall] concept of ‘passing’ in his celebrated case story of Agnes and argue that ‘passing’ is often conflated with ‘being out’. I argue that the two are significantly different and claim that the former is implicitly based on a public lie. I use several auto-ethnographic narratives to illustrate the argument.
History
Citation
Culture and Organization, 2016
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Business
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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Culture and Organization
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge) for Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism
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