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Second skins : the body narratives of transsexuality

Jay Prosser (Author)
Focusing on the union of body and narrative, this work conveys how transsexuality has been moulded by autobiographical acts. It argues that the transsexual body - as a historical subject and the histories of individual transsexual subjects - is empowered by narrative
Print Book, English, 1998
Columbia University Press, New York, 1998
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 267 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
9780231109345, 9780231109352, 0231109342, 0231109350
37870577
Acknowledgmentsix
Introduction: On Transitions--Changing Bodies, Changing Narratives1(20)
Part 1: Bodies21(78)
1. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex
21(40)
2. A Skin of One's Own: Toward a Theory of Transsexual Embodiment
61(38)
Part 2: Narratives99(108)
3. Mirror Images: Transsexuality and Autobiography
99(36)
4. "Some Primitive Thing Conceived in a Turbulent Age of Transition": The Invert, The Well of Loneliness, and the Narrative Origins of Transsexuality
135(36)
5. No Place Like Home: Transgender and Trans-Genre in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues
171(36)
Epilogue: Transsexuality in Photography--Fielding the Referent207(30)
Notes237(24)
Index261
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)