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Second skins : the body narratives of transsexuality

Author:Jay Prosser (Author)

Summary: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

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher:Columbia University Press, New York, 1998

Series:

Gender and culture

Genre:Aufsatzsammlung

Physical Description:x, 267 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780231109345, 9780231109352, 0231109342, 0231109350

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:37870577

Subjects:

Aufsatzsammlung

Transsexualisme

Transsexualismus

Transsexualität

Contents:

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: On Transitions--Changing Bodies, Changing Narratives

1

(20)

Part 1: Bodies

21

(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: Narratives

99

(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 Referent

207

(30)

Notes

237

(24)

Index

261

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)

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Table of contents