(Dis)embodying gender and sexuality in XXXX .

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@entity5 is the most common @entity5 in @entity1 aged 15-34. Although post-treatment prognosis is generally very good, the impact on sexuality, gender identity and fertility is amplified in this age group. A Canadian study of @entity1 with @entity5 explores how @entity1 (re)consider questions of sexuality and gender post diagnosis and treatment. Semi-structured interviews with 40 @entity1 were analyzed using thematic decomposition, an analytic technique that combines discursive approaches with thematic analysis. The theoretical framework that guides this work relies on material discursive approaches. From an analytic stance, this perspective is concerned with a focus on the ways in which both subjectivity and the body are experienced and constituted in language. In particular, we are concerned with how these @entity1 interpret the (altered) male body as a locus of gender signification and gender disruption. @entity1 in this study construct @entity5 as alternately inhibiting and enhancing masculinity and sexuality. Disruption interpolates with potentiality. A discourse of precarious masculinity predominates these accounts, wherein the link between anatomy and masculinity is simultaneously asserted and disavowed. Constructions of anatomical essentialism (i.e., testicular integrity is equated with masculinity) are juxtaposed against construals of anatomical superfluousness (i.e., other sites of sexuality and male identity are emphasized as being more central).
