ISBN:
9780231549172
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (376 pages)
DDC:
305.30951
Keywords:
Transsexuals-China-History
;
Transgender people-China-History
;
Gender nonconformity-China-History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Queering History from the Sinophone Pacific -- Part I: Unsettling Origins: Two Manifestos -- 1. Transtopia: Epistemology of the Commensurate -- 2. Stonewall Aside: Why Queer Theory Needs Sinophone Studies -- Part II: Uneven Paths: Three Methods -- 3. Titrating Transgender: Archiving Taiwan Through Renyao History -- 4. Inscribing Transgender: Intercorporeal Governance and the Logic of Sinophone Supplementarity -- 5. Creolizing Transgender: Citizenship Contest in the New Millennium -- Conclusion: An Antidote Approach -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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