Hur många kön finns det i världen? : En kritisk diskursanalys av Socialstyrelsens handböcker för socialtjänsten och upprätthållandet av tvåkönsnormen

Sammanfattning: This study investigates The Swedish Board of Health and Welfare handbooks and the upholding of the binary gender system using critical discourse analysis. The purpose of this study is to examine how the handbooks construct, produce and reproduce gender and examines the binary gender system prominence and dominance using Faircloughs critical discourse analysis. The study also makes use of a social constructivist perspective and queer theory. The results revealed how the handbooks both produce and reproduce the binary gender system by using a language, which exclude people who identify outside of the system. In this kind of study, it is only possible to speculate about the consequences from the order of discourse, by making the binary order of discourse visible and to reflect on the possible consequences for people who do not identify themselves as a woman or a man.