Transgressed intimate partner violence in transgender lives / Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guadalupe-Diaz, Xavier L., Author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transgender people--Violence against.

Intimate partner violence.

Trans people--Violence against.

Trans people.

Physical Description:

vii, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York New York University Press [2019]

Summary:

This book focuses on the stories of eighteen transgender survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and how their accounts challenge conventional understandings of this form of abuse. By examining the contexts in which abuse occurs, the book anchors transgender experiences with IPV within a largely trans-antagonistic culture. The dynamics of abuse, as told by survivors, are largely informed by an existing transphobic and genderist society. The prevalent themes in the accounts describe how transphobic and genderist attacks manifested as distinct patterns of abuse. When reflecting and making sense of their reality, survivors saw many of their experiences with abuse as attempts by abusers to control their gender transition and define them on the abusers' own terms.

Contents:

Intimate partner violence outside the binary

The contexts of abuse for transgender survivors

"No man is going to see you as a woman" : transgender accounts of violence and abuse

Meanings of violence : controlling transition through discrediting identity work

Processing victim identity : walking the gender tightrope

Conclusion: moving toward trans-inclusivity

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Methodology

Appendix B: Reflexive statement

Notes

References

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-9383-8

9781479893836

OCLC:

1113885298