Trans*am : cis men and trans women in love / Joseph McClellan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClellan, Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people.

Transgender people.

Gender identity.

Interpersonal relations.

Transphobia.

Physical Description:

207 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : ThreeL Media / Stone Bridge Press, [2017]

Summary:

Trans women -- who were assigned male at birth and later transitioned into a female gender -- are increasingly in the media because of celebrities and controversial legislation. Now cis men -- who identify with a masculine gender they were assigned at birth -- are called upon to share their experiences as lovers of trans women. Using theory and personal anecdotes, the author questions the codes that cis men and trans women use to interpret their own and others' gendered and sexed bodies, and seeks to free romantic and sexual experience from prejudice and stigma.

Contents:

Introduction : outer and inner biographies of a transam

Navigating the seas of identity : can we define the transam?

Reframing gender and sexual identities : the Buddhist path and the transam

The quest for validation : giving bodies definition

Worlds of interpretation : how words hurt bodies

Against interpretation : liberating bodies from restrictive languages

The naked world : Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body without interpretation

A personal transam sexuality : my body, my words.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-207).

ISBN:

9780996485241

0996485244

OCLC:

945949153

Publisher Number:

99971680188