Recasting encounters between women and the transgendered: a sensitive analysis of Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief Society

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dc.contributor.authorDyck, Ronald Paul
dc.contributor.supervisorTully, James
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-09T21:37:05Z
dc.date.available2009-09-09T21:37:05Z
dc.date.copyright2006en
dc.date.issued2009-09-09T21:37:05Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractIn Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief Society, a legal case involving the exclusion of a male-to-female transsexual from a volunteer position with a women-only organization, the question of what a woman is one of the central questions being addressed. Questions of this kind place significant limits on cases like Nixon that involve women-only organizations and transgendered persons, since they can only address the place of women, and not the transgendered, in an organization like Rape Relief. This thesis examines two of the decisions that have emerged from Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief Society and Vancouver Rape Relief Society v. Nixon - in order to account for their shared investment in determining what a woman is. It then utilizes select writings of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Emmanuel Levinas to consider how the discussion taking place in Nixon might be recast in a manner that better accounts for the claims of women and the transgendered, enabling a responsive encounter between the one and the other.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1742
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben
dc.subjecttranssexualsen
dc.subjectlegal statusen
dc.subjectlawen
dc.subjectBritish Columbiaen
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Political Scienceen
dc.titleRecasting encounters between women and the transgendered: a sensitive analysis of Nixon v. Vancouver Rape Relief Societyen
dc.typeThesisen

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