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Author: Dietrich Boschung Publisher: Brill Fink ISBN: 9783770558087 Category : Art, Greek Languages : de Pages : 354
Book Description
In cultural studies, "body" and "knowledge" intersect. Social practices implicate orders of knowledge and at the same time they shape human bodies, which in turn endow abstract concepts with a concrete form. Seemingly stable bodies are by their very nature frequently unstable forms, as there are deformations, disfigurements, stigmatization, fragmentation or the hybridity to composite beings and transgender persons. The transgression of established boundaries can lead to confusion or terror. The embodied knowledge is thereby short-circuited, turning order to chaos. One way of bringing transgressive bodies under control is through the visual fixation of the transition. The image brings order into the chaos. The contributions in this volume explore in interdisciplinary dialogues how forms of knowledge can be embodied in a concrete form that one can perceive with the senses. In addition, these articles investigate what happens after such concrete forms have been created: what powers accrue to them and how they in turn impact the ideas that they represent.
Author: Dietrich Boschung Publisher: Brill Fink ISBN: 9783770558087 Category : Art, Greek Languages : de Pages : 354
Book Description
In cultural studies, "body" and "knowledge" intersect. Social practices implicate orders of knowledge and at the same time they shape human bodies, which in turn endow abstract concepts with a concrete form. Seemingly stable bodies are by their very nature frequently unstable forms, as there are deformations, disfigurements, stigmatization, fragmentation or the hybridity to composite beings and transgender persons. The transgression of established boundaries can lead to confusion or terror. The embodied knowledge is thereby short-circuited, turning order to chaos. One way of bringing transgressive bodies under control is through the visual fixation of the transition. The image brings order into the chaos. The contributions in this volume explore in interdisciplinary dialogues how forms of knowledge can be embodied in a concrete form that one can perceive with the senses. In addition, these articles investigate what happens after such concrete forms have been created: what powers accrue to them and how they in turn impact the ideas that they represent.
Author: Trystan T. Cotten Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415888468 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 203
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Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger geopolitical contexts of immigration reform, the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the increased policing of national borders. The book centers trans-ing experiences, identities, and politics, and treats these identities as inextricably intertwined with other social identities, institutions, and discourses of sexuality, nationality, race and ethnicity, globalization, colonialism, and terrorism. The chapter authors explore not only the movement of bodies in, through, and across spaces and borders, but also chart the metamorphoses of these bodies in relation to migration and mobility. Transgender Migrations takes the theory documented in The Transgender Studies Reader and blows it up to a global scale. It is the logical next step for scholarship in this dynamic, emerging field.
Author: Lisa DeTora Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781032091402 Category : Languages : en Pages : 192
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In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. Yet sexual transition is only one possible type of transformation, and this interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue about bodily transformation and its meanings.
Author: Laura Erickson-Schroth Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199325359 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 673
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This is a groundbreaking, personal, and informative guide for the transgender population, covering health, legal issues, cultural and social questions, history, theory, and more. It is a place for transgender and gender-questioning people, their partners and families, students, professors, and guidance counselors, to look for up-to-date information on transgender life.
Author: Heather Brunskell-Evans Publisher: ISBN: 9781527503984 Category : Transgender children Languages : en Pages : 232
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This book is a collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of 'the transgender child' as a young person whose 'true' gender lies in the brain, or pre-social 'identity'. Contributors contest this diagnosis from a range of perspectives, including as social theorists, psychotherapists, persons living as transgender, individuals who have de-transitioned, and parents of adolescents identifying as transgender. They argue that medicine, social policy and the law build ideas about 'the transgender child', and contend that it is politics, not science, which accounts for the exponential rise in the number of children diagnosed as transgender by gender identity clinics. They conclude that today's medical and social trend for transgendering children is not liberal and progressive, but politically reactionary, physically and psychologically dangerous and abusive.
Author: Ryan T. Anderson Publisher: Encounter Books ISBN: 1594039623 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 243
Book Description
Can a boy be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine “reassign” sex? Is our sex “assigned” to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of “gender identity”? When Harry Became Sally provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan Anderson offers a nuanced view of human embodiment, a balanced approach to public policy on gender identity, and a sober assessment of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. This book exposes the contrast between the media’s sunny depiction of gender fluidity and the often sad reality of living with gender dysphoria. It gives a voice to people who tried to “transition” by changing their bodies, and found themselves no better off. Especially troubling are the stories told by adults who were encouraged to transition as children but later regretted subjecting themselves to those drastic procedures. As Anderson shows, the most beneficial therapies focus on helping people accept themselves and live in harmony with their bodies. This understanding is vital for parents with children in schools where counselors may steer a child toward transitioning behind their backs. Everyone has something at stake in the controversies over transgender ideology, when misguided “antidiscrimination” policies allow biological men into women’s restrooms and penalize Americans who hold to the truth about human nature. Anderson offers a strategy for pushing back with principle and prudence, compassion and grace.
Author: Callum Angus Publisher: ISBN: 9781999058876 Category : Languages : en Pages : 200
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Fiction. Short Stories. LGBTQIA Studies. A NATURAL HISTORY OF TRANSITION is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror, and a reality heavily dosed with magic. Callum Angus is one of the younger writers I'm most excited by, with a mind full of marvels and an ear to match. Every story surprises; every sentence strives gorgeously toward music. This is writing as transition, as entrancement, as transcendence.--Garth Greenwell
Author: Dietrich Boschung
Author: Dietrich Boschung
Author: Trystan T. Cotten
Author: Lisa DeTora
Author: Lisa DeTora
Author: Laura Erickson-Schroth
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Author: Heather Brunskell-Evans
Author: Ryan T. Anderson
Author: Callum Angus
Author: Deborah Sharon Byck