Abstract
This chapter explores the practices of gender policing in domestic spaces and evaluates the impact that such practices have on transgendered people’s everyday subjectivities, social interactions and embodiments. These realities call for constant negotiations with and a battling against the gender binary system inscribed in the space called ‘home’. With a focus on domestic settings and the social relations within them, this chapter attempts to position a home as an ambivalent closet space by depicting it not only as a space of relentless gender policing and the re-enforcer of heteronormative gender binarism but also as a space for the queering of these conventions adopted in the home. The empirical data used in this chapter has been derived from the outcome of research on ‘gender policing and transgendered people’s everyday spaces’, conducted between 2008 and 2010.KeywordsGender IdentityTrans PeopleDomestic SettingDomestic SpaceConstant NegotiationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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