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Imagining transgender : an ethnography of a category / David Valentine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valentine, David, 1966-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender nonconformity.
- Trans people--Social conditions.
- Trans people.
- Gender identity.
- Gender nonconformity--Research.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnography in which the author's fieldwork with transgendered and transsexual individuals in New York City demonstrates the creation and confusion of gender identity labels.
- Contents:
- Imagining transgender
- Making community
- "I know what I am" : gender, sexuality, and identity
- The making of a field : anthropology and transgender studies
- The logic of inclusion : transgender activism
- The calculus of pain : violence, narrative, and the self
- Conclusion: Making ethnography.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923494
- 9780822338536
- 082233853X
- 9781282923492
- 1282923498
- OCLC:
- 271166229
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