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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jay Prosser |
ISBN: | 0231109342 9780231109345 0231109350 9780231109352 |
OCLC Number: | 37870577 |
Notes: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral). |
Description: | x, 267 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: On transitions -- changing bodies, changing narratives -- Part 1: Bodies. 1. Judith Butler: queer feminism, transgender, and the transubstantiation of sex -- 2. A skin of ne's own: toward a theory of transsexual embodiment -- Part 2: Narratives. 3. Mirror images: transsexuality and autobiography -- 4. "Some primitive thing conceived in a turbulent age of transition": the invert, the well of loneliness, and the narrative origins of transsexuality -- 5. No place like home: transgender and trans-genre in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues -- Epilogue: Transsexuality in photography -- fielding the referent. |
Series Title: | Gender and culture. |
Responsibility: | Jay Prosser. |
Abstract:
Examining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand-in mind and body-to cross the boundary of sex, Prosser argues that sex change is, at best, a narrative-thus transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors.
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