@article{ref1,
title="“At the Time She Was a Man”: The Temporal Dimension of Identity Construction",
journal="Political and legal anthropology review",
year="2008",
author="Conley, Robin",
volume="31",
number="1",
pages="28-47",
abstract="This article examines the temporal elements of identity construction, drawing parallels between the construction of ethnographic, legal, and personal identities. The article presents a case of transsexual identity, analyzing how people reference a transsexual in order to illuminate the temporal complexity of gendered identity construction and identity in general. The study consists of a micro-analysis of scientists and lawyers talking about transsexuals in and around a legal trial, and offers a model of identity that allows for disjuncture and incongruence over time. It argues that ethnographic and legal accounts of identity rely on a negotiation between coherence and discontinuity.<p />",
language="",
issn="1081-6976",
doi="10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00003.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00003.x"
}