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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798678103321

Titolo

Reclaiming genders : transsexual grammars at the Fin de Siècle / / edited by Kate More and Stephen Whittle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-4742-9284-4

1-4742-9283-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Bloomsbury academic collections. Gender studies

Disciplina

305.9/066

Soggetti

Transsexualism

Transsexualism - Great Britain

Transsexuals

Transsexuals - Great Britain

Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The becoming man: the law's ass brays / Stephen Whittle -- Passing women and female-bodied men: (re)claiming FTM history / Jason Cromwell -- Portrait of a transfag drag hag as a young man: the activist career of Louis G. Sullivan / Susan Stryker -- Exceptional locations: transsexual travelogues / Jay Prosser -- Look! No, don't! The visibility dilemma for transsexual men / Jamison Green -- Testimonies of HIV activism / Kate More and Sandra Laframboise with Deborah Brady.

Talking transgender politics / Roz Kaveney -- A proposal for doing transgender theory in the academy / Markisha Greaney -- Trans studies: between a metaphysics of presence and absence / Henry S. Rubin -- 50 billion galaxies of gender: transgendering the millennium Gordene O. Mackenzie -- What does a transsexual want? The encounter between psychoanalysis and transsexualism / Diane Morgan -- Never mind the bollocks: 1. trans theory in the UK / Kate More -- Never mind the bollocks: 2. Judith Butler on transsexuality / An interview by Kate More.

Sommario/riassunto

Reclaiming Genders is an inter-disciplinary work which addresses the



practical issues faced in changing the world view of gender whilst forcing theory a step forward from the limitations of queer, feminism and post-modernism.