title: Developing an identity model for transgender and intersex inclusion in lesbian communities.
abstract: The article briefly highlights past ideologies of Essentialism and Constructionist thought, identifying their weaknesses as arguments of exclusion. By combining corporeality and mentality, the article posits an identity model, the spherical characterization model that argues for transgender inclusion in lesbian space by deconstructing the ideology behind identity group construction. Next the article applies the spherical characterization model to the characters in Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' and Jeffrey Eugenides' 'Middlesex' to delineate how the model argues for transgender inclusion within lesbian space.
authors.affiliation: Atlanta, GA 30307, USA. crobinson542@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D005783:Gender Identity; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010684:Philosophy; D012933:Social Identification; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000523:psychology*