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Laurel Westbrook
Researcher at Grand Valley State University
Publications - 19
Citations - 2192
Laurel Westbrook is an academic researcher from Grand Valley State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transgender & Human sexuality. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications receiving 1779 citations.
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Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity
Kristen Schilt,Laurel Westbrook +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how nontransgender people, "gender normals", interact with transgender people to highlight the connections between doing gender and heteronormativity, and show how gender and sexuality are inextricably tied together.
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Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity “Gender Normals,” Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality
Kristen Schilt,Laurel Westbrook +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how nontransgender people, "gender normals", interact with transgender people to highlight the connections between doing gender and heteronormativity, and show how gender and sexuality are inextricably tied together.
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Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System
Laurel Westbrook,Kristen Schilt +1 more
TL;DR: Schilt et al. as discussed by the authors explored the differences in criteria for determining gender across social spaces, and found that gender-integrated spaces are more likely to use identity-based criteria, while gender-segregated spaces, like the sexual spaces, are more often to use biology based criteria.
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New Categories Are Not Enough Rethinking the Measurement of Sex and Gender in Social Surveys
TL;DR: The authors conducted a systematic examination of questionnaires, manuals, and other technical materials from four of the largest and longest-running surveys in the United States and found that essentialist practices that treat sex and gender as synonymous, easily determined by others, obvious, and unchanging over the life course permeated the surveys.
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Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics
Kristen Schilt,Laurel Westbrook +1 more
TL;DR: How transgender rights legislation got framed as “bathroom bills,” with seemingly everyone trying to mark their territory as mentioned in this paper, is the subject of a recent investigation in the New York Times.