ISBN:
9783319926698
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 301 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Global queer politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Camminga, B. Transgender refugees and the imagined South Africa
DDC:
320.96
Keywords:
Refugees
;
Transgender people-South Africa
;
Electronic books
;
Südafrika
;
Einwanderer
;
Transgender
Abstract:
Intro -- Series Editors Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Trans Travels and Trans Trajectories -- 1.1 Themes and Arguments -- 1.2 The Term: 'Transgender' -- 1.3 The People: 'Gender Refugees'57 -- 1.4 'Across', 'Beyond', 'Through' -- 1.5 A Prefix Occurring in Loanwords: (Trans)Continental -- 1.6 Book Structure -- References -- Chapter 2: The Emergence of a Discourse of Transgender in South Africa -- 2.1 1900-1920: Race, Gender, and Sexuality -- 2.2 1920s-1950s: Science, Sex, and Sensationalism -- 2.3 1960s: Transsexualism and 'Masquerading as Women' -- 2.4 1970s: A Change of 'Sex' -- 2.5 1980-1985: Media and Marriage -- 2.6 1985-1990: The Transgender Phenomenon -- 2.7 Entering into the 1990s: An End to the 'Good Old Days' -- 2.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Politics and Limits of Transgender in South Africa -- 3.1 South Africa's Constitutional Development -- 3.2 Putting the 'T' in NCGLE -- 3.3 Language and Politics: Regional Flows -- 3.4 Refugee Act: 'Members of a Particular Social Group' -- 3.5 The Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status -- 3.6 "The Africa Transgender Movement Starts Here!!"102 -- 3.7 "The Stigma of Western Words"118 -- 3.8 To Be Simply a Woman -- 3.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Shifting Borderlands and Becoming a Gender Refugee -- 4.1 Gendering the Body: Between a 'What' and an 'It' -- 4.2 Discipline and Affirmation: The Family Home -- 4.3 Shifting into Homosexuality: Communities and Vulnerabilities -- 4.4 A Felt Sense of Self: The Role of Transgender -- 4.5 Discomfort: Conflict and Life in the Borderlands -- 4.6 Necropolitics: Persecution, Illegality, and Death -- 4.7 Imaginaries: The Freedom of South Africa -- 4.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Of Categories and Queues and Structural Realities -- 5.1 Passports and Borders
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