ISBN:
9780304337767
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (338 p)
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury academic collections. Gender studies
Series Statement:
Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Parallel Title:
Print version Whittle, Stephen Reclaiming Genders : Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siecle
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Gender identity
;
Transsexualism
;
Transsexualism ; Great Britain
;
Transsexuals
;
Transsexuals ; Great Britain
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction 1 -- Notes -- References -- Introduction 2 -- Becoming the transperson -- Activism and the transgender community: becoming (trans)active -- Post-postmodern trans-theory: into the new millennium -- Part One: Becoming Trans -- 1. The Becoming Man: The Law's Ass Brays -- The transsexual? Sex sights/sites -- A legal position(ing) -- Travelling -- Seeing through Justice's blindfold -- Tackling sex site/sight discrimination -- Living in outer space -- See the word for the trees
Abstract:
The becoming man -- Notes -- References -- 2. Passing Women and Female-bodied Men: (Re)claiming FTM History -- Transvestic opportunists: soldiers, sailors, pirates, criminals and frauds -- Female husbands and passing women: women who posed as men for love -- Female-bodied men: by nature and character, a man -- Default assumptions, or the Billy Tipton phenomenon -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Portrait of a Transfag Drag Hag as a Young Man: The Activist Career of Louis G. Sullivan -- 'Looking toward transvestite liberation' -- Sullivan's San Francisco transition
Abstract:
Decentralization of transgender health-care -- Building community and recovering history -- Living and dying like a gay man -- Rest in peace -- Notes -- References -- 4. Exceptional Locations: Transsexual Travelogues -- The voyage out -- Transit zones -- Foreign parts -- Getting out of here -- The politics of transgender location -- Postcard to J-Boy -- Notes -- References -- Part Two Becoming (Trans) Active -- 5. Look! No, Don't! The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men -- Notes -- References -- Author's Note -- 6. Testimonies of HIV Activism -- Talking Heads
Abstract:
News Flash: London Sex Worker Murdered -- The High Risk Project Society, Vancouver, BC -- UK HIV Leaflet: From a Merciless Mistress -- Notes -- 7. Talking Transgender Politics -- Preamble -- General position -- Passing: invisibility versus acceptance -- Single goal: is it even what we need? -- Bad outcomes -- Marriage: copping out? selling out? -- Gays, lesbians and solidarity -- Medicals -- Burn-out: a disadvantage of multi-issue campaigning? -- Against birth certificates -- Final comments -- Postscript: transgender as human variation -- Notes
Abstract:
8. A Proposal for Doing Transgender Theory in the Academy -- Introduction -- Statement of Purpose: Application for Graduate Admission -- Conclusion -- AcknowledgementsI would like to thank Sandy -- Notes -- References -- Part Three: Thinking Transsexualism into the New Millennium -- 9. Trans Studies: Between a Metaphysics of Presence and Absence -- Notes -- References -- 10. 50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium -- Introduction -- Discourse interruptus -- Changing the channel of discourse -- Gender liberation
Abstract:
Electronic transgender colonization, transportation and transmutation in popular US and international films
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