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Becoming a visible man / Jamison Green.
LIBRA HQ77.8.G35 G74 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Jamison, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Green, Jamison, 1948-.
- Green, Jamison.
- Transsexuals--United States--Biography.
- Transsexuals.
- United States.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- Gender identity--United States.
- Gender identity.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 231 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville [Tenn.] : Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Written by a leading activist in the transgender movement, Becoming a Visible Man is an artful and compelling inquiry into the politics of gender. Jamison Green combines candid autobiography with informed analysis to offer unique insight into the multiple challenges of the female-to-male transsexual experience, ranging from encounters with prejudice and strained relationships with family to the development of an FTM community and the realities of surgical sex reassignment.
- Contents:
- 1 How Do You Know? 1
- Coming Out 10
- Early Dialogues 15
- Interconnections 20
- 2 Initiation 27
- Coming of Age 28
- The World of Men 32
- Letting Go of Shame 41
- Taking Responsible Action 45
- 3 A Vision of Community 53
- Lou Sullivan and the FTM Group 54
- Unconventional Conventions 73
- Intolerance 77
- Stepping Up to the Plate 84
- 4 Body of Knowledge 89
- Access to Treatment 91
- Hormone Therapy 94
- Approaching Surgery 102
- "Top" Surgery 103
- "Bottom" Surgery 106
- Decisions, Decisions 114
- Genital Geometry 120
- 5 Transparent Feelings 123
- Denial 124
- Fear 126
- Parents and Trans Children 128
- Transpeople as Parents 133
- 6 Consummate Presence 147
- Desire versus Identity 153
- The "Threat" of Sexual Uncertainty 160
- Sex and Validation 162
- Knowing What's Desired 166
- 7 Visibility 171
- Visibility on Screen 172
- Visibility in Print 177
- The Visibility Dilemma 180
- Academic Debates 184
- Appearances 187
- Influencing the Course of Treatment 194
- 8 Willful Destiny 199
- Physical Proof 202
- Self-Determination 207
- Validity 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826514561
- 082651457X
- OCLC:
- 54046444
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