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Author Whittle, Stephen

Title Reclaiming Genders : Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siecle
Published London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (338 pages)
Series Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction 1; Notes; References; Introduction 2; Becoming the transperson; Activism and the transgender community: becoming (trans)active; Post-postmodern trans-theory: into the new millennium; Part One: Becoming Trans; 1. The Becoming Man: The Law's Ass Brays; The transsexual? Sex sights/sites; A legal position(ing); Travelling; Seeing through Justice's blindfold; Tackling sex site/sight discrimination; Living in outer space; See the word for the trees; The becoming man; Notes; References
2. Passing Women and Female-bodied Men: (Re)claiming FTM HistoryTransvestic opportunists: soldiers, sailors, pirates, criminals and frauds; Female husbands and passing women: women who posed as men for love; Female-bodied men: by nature and character, a man; Default assumptions, or the Billy Tipton phenomenon; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Portrait of a Transfag Drag Hag as a Young Man: The Activist Career of Louis G. Sullivan; 'Looking toward transvestite liberation'; Sullivan's San Francisco transition; Decentralization of transgender health-care
Building community and recovering historyLiving and dying like a gay man; Rest in peace; Notes; References; 4. Exceptional Locations: Transsexual Travelogues; The voyage out; Transit zones; Foreign parts; Getting out of here; The politics of transgender location; Postcard to J-Boy; Notes; References; Part Two Becoming (Trans) Active; 5. Look! No, Don't! The Visibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men; Notes; References; Author's Note; 6. Testimonies of HIV Activism; Talking Heads; News Flash: London Sex Worker Murdered; The High Risk Project Society, Vancouver, BC
UK HIV Leaflet: From a Merciless MistressNotes; 7. Talking Transgender Politics; Preamble; General position; Passing: invisibility versus acceptance; Single goal: is it even what we need?; Bad outcomes; Marriage: copping out? selling out?; Gays, lesbians and solidarity; Medicals; Burn-out: a disadvantage of multi-issue campaigning?; Against birth certificates; Final comments; Postscript: transgender as human variation; Notes; 8. A Proposal for Doing Transgender Theory in the Academy; Introduction; Statement of Purpose: Application for Graduate Admission; Conclusion
AcknowledgementsI would like to thank SandyNotes; References; Part Three: Thinking Transsexualism into the New Millennium; 9. Trans Studies: Between a Metaphysics of Presence and Absence; Notes; References; 10. 50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium; Introduction; Discourse interruptus; Changing the channel of discourse; Gender liberation; Electronic transgender colonization, transportation and transmutation in popular US and international films; Notes; References; 11. What Does a Transsexual Want? The Encounter between Psychoanalysis and Transsexualism; Notes
Summary 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
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Subject Transsexualism.
Transsexualism -- Great Britain
Transsexuals.
Transsexuals -- Great Britain
Transsexualism
LGBTQ+.
Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism.
Transsexualism
Transsexuals
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author More, Kate
Whittle, Stephen
ISBN 9781474292832
1474292836