The Surgery Issue - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 147800052X ISBN 13: 9781478000525

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Trans* surgery has been an object of fantasy, derision, refusal, and triumph. Contributors to this issue explore the vital and contested place of surgical intervention in the making of trans* bodies, theories, and practices. For decades, clinicians considered a desire for reconstructive genital surgery to be the linchpin of the transsexual diagnosis. In the 1990s, new histories of trans* clinical practice challenged the institutional claim that transsexuals all wanted genital surgery, and trans* authors began to argue for their surgically altered bodies as sites of power rather than capitulation. Subsequent contestations of the medico-surgical framework helped mark the emergence of "transgender" as an alternative, more inclusive term for gender nonconforming subjects who were sometimes less concerned with surgical intervention. Contributors move beyond medical issue to engage "the surgical" in its many forms, exploring how trans* surgery has been construed and presented across different discursive forms and how these representations of trans* surgeries have helped and/or limited understanding of trans* identities and bodies and shaped the evolution of trans* politics.

Contributors. Paisley Currah, Joshua Franklin, Cressida J. Heyes, Julia Horncastle, Riki Lane, J.R. Latham, Sandra Mesics, Eric Plemons, Katherine Rachlin, Chris Straayer, Susan Stryker

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Eric Plemons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and the author of The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine, also published by Duke University Press.

Chris Straayer is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University and author of Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies.

Eric Plemons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and the author of The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine, also published by Duke University Press.

Chris Straayer is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University and author of Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 147800052X
• ISBN 13: 9781478000525
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Herausgeber: Plemons Eric, Straayer Chris
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande