Entering transmasculinity : the inevitability of discourse / Matthew [Bettina] Heinz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heinz, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people--Identity.

Trans people.

Transgender people--Identity.

Masculinity.

Physical Description:

xv, 300 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect Books, 2016.

Summary:

Entering Transmasculinity is a holistic study of the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape transgender identities. matthew heinz offers an examination of mediated and experienced transmasculine subjectivities and aims to capture the apparent contradictions that structure transmasculine experience, perception, and identification. From the relationship between transmasculinity's emancipatory potential and its simultaneously homogenizing implications, to issues of gender-queerness, sexual minorities, normativity, and fatherhood, Entering Transmasculinity the first book to synthesize the disparate areas of academic study in the context of digital constructions of the transmasculine self. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Transmasculine Patient 29

Chapter 2 Norming Abnormality 75

Chapter 3 Finding One's (Male) Self 119

Chapter 4 A Man's Man 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-281) and index.

ISBN:

9781783205684

1783205687

OCLC:

950962713