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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all, Ashlee’s defense has been rescheduled for TUESDAY 11 am – 1 pm. The Zoom link remains the same. Hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anna<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Babel, Anna M. <babel.6@osu.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 5, 2021 at 10:54 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>SPPO grad students <spangrad@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>, splect@lists.osu.edu <splect@lists.osu.edu>, SPPO faculty <sppofac@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>, spposta@lists.osu.edu <spposta@lists.osu.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Invitation to Ashlee Dauphinais's dissertation defense<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You are cordially invited to</span></p>
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<p class="p2" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guerreiras: Linguistic and Social Practices Among Women with Turner Syndrome in Brazil</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Ashlee Dauphinais</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Department of Spanish & Portuguese</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Ohio State University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tuesday, April 13<sup>th</sup>, 11 am – 1 pm EDT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="ES" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Via Zoom</span></i><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://osu.zoom.us/j/95903992777?pwd=aVhuOFZ1dVRUdS9UYzVBaWhQMHF4dz09"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://osu.zoom.us/j/95903992777?pwd=aVhuOFZ1dVRUdS9UYzVBaWhQMHF4dz09</span></a><span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstract:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This dissertation is a mixed-methods ethnographic study of how local understandings of femininity interact with medical practices among women with Turner Syndrome (TS),
an intersex chromosomal condition affecting 1/2,500 women. For intersex individuals, social experiences of gender often collide with biological interpretations of sex and its material realities. Innovations in medical technology push the limitations of bodily
manipulation and gendered norms and can mitigate tensions between the biological and the social experiences of gender. This intersection of the social and the biological is particularly salient in intersex populations. For those with TS, medical practices
often have profound physiological and social effects. While previous research in anthropology and public health has investigated social categories and their effects on health, few examine how health and medicine affect social identity formation. In Brazil,
this is amplified as bodies are prominent both in the public eye and in national discourses on beauty, surgery, and hormones, where biomedicine is used to negotiate gendered bodily norms. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This research speaks to a broader move in sociocultural linguistics and the field of language and gender to explore practices of non-binary communities. Little has been
studied, however, about intersex populations and the role of the body in shaping linguistic and social practices. In this vein, previous research in public health has examined the effect of social categories on health, yet less is known about how healthcare
affects such social identities. In Brazil, where bodies are prominent both physically in the public eye and in national discourses on beauty, surgery, and hormones, biomedicine is increasingly used to establish and negotiate bodily gendered norms. As the first
in-depth ethnographic study of linguistic practices among intersex individuals, my dissertation’s central contribution is its analysis of what it means to be “almost” female in Latin America in an age of rapid biomedical advances.</span></p>
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