For instance, some participants shared accounts of experiencing agency in relation to transgressing norms of gender hegemony by cultivating their physical strength and muscularity, by embracing the functionality of their bodies (cf., Ecklund and Masberg 2014; George 2005; Howells and Grogan 2012; Krane et al. 2004) and by celebrating increased confidence in their everyday lives.
Respectability is described by Skeggs [ 36] as a key factor for British low-income women's position, and how women transgressing norms of female behaviour risk being regarded as disrespectable.
What message is subtly conveyed about gender variance when only gender-normative males are deemed competent to persuade other males to transgress gender norms?
Self-categorization accentuates the similarities between one's behavior and that prescribed by the group norm, thus causing conformity as well as the disposition to control and punish in-group members that transgress group norms.
Gary Hufbauer, of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, argues that American subsidies transgress WTO norms.Helpful ambiguityHowever, WTO action against subsidies is not straightforward.
Whether the pharaohs would have been powerful enough or rash enough to transgress accepted norms had transplantation been feasible is quite another matter.
But will the leaders have the courage to apply it for example, against Mr Chavez, were he to transgress democratic norms in future?
Far from seeking simply to transgress cultural norms or sexual boundaries, Bachman argues, proscribed authors such as Wyndham Lewis, Erskine Caldwell, Lillian Smith, and James T. Farrell refigured the capacity of writing to evoke the obscene so that readers might become aware of the social processes by which they were being turned into mass consumers, voyeurs, and racialized subjects.
Consistent with Knapp (2015b), many participants experienced the box as a space to transgress hegemonic norms of femininity by openly displaying traditionally masculine traits such as strength and aggressiveness: "…in the…box…we're pushed to be aggressive, vocal, and strong…It's rewarding…I don't feel like we get the same respect outside of the gym in that way" (Ann, 30 years).
