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