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Assuming a body : transgender and rhetorics of materiality / Gayle Salamon.

Van Pelt Library HQ77.9 .S25 2010
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Salamon, Gayle.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gender nonconformity--Psychological aspects.
Gender nonconformity.
Trans people--Psychology.
Trans people.
Gender identity.
Transgender people.
Psychology.
Psychological aspects.
Physical Description:
xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
Summary:
Considering questions of transgendered embodiment via phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and queer theory, Gayle Salamon advances an alternative theory of normative and non-normative gender, proving the value and vitality of trans experience for thinking embodiment.
Contents:
The bodily ego and the contested domain of the material
The sexual schema : transposition and transgenderism in Phenomenology of perception
Boys of the lex : transgender and social construction
Transfeminism and the future of gender
An ethics of transsexual difference : Luce Irigaray and the place of sexual undecidability
Sexual indifference and the problem of the limit
Withholding the letter : sex as state property.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lambda Literary Awards - LGBT Studies, Winner, 2011
Other Format:
Online version: Salamon, Gayle. Assuming a body.
ISBN:
9780231149587
0231149581
9780231149594
023114959X
9780231521703
0231521707
OCLC:
429816921
Publisher Number:
99939585168

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