Jay Prosser (University of Leeds Professor)

Second Skins

The Body Narratives of Transsexuality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand-in mind and body-to cross the boundary of sex, Prosser argues that sex change is, at best, a narrative-thus transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors.

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Produktdetails

• Gender and Culture Series
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780231109352
• ISBN-10: 0231109350
• Artikelnr.: 22263355

Autorenporträt

Jay Prosser

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Transitions -- Changing Bodies, Changing Narratives
Part 1: Bodies
1. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation
of Sex
2. A Skin of One's Own: Toward a Theory of Transsexual Embodiment
Part 2: Narratives
3. Mirror Images: Transsexuality and Autobiography
4. "Some Primitive Thing Conceived in a Turbulent Age of Transition": The
Invert, The Well of Loneliness, and the Narrative Origins of Transexuality
5. No Place Like Home: Transgender and Trans-Genre in Leslie Feinberg's
Stone Butch Blues
Epilogue: Transsexuality in Photography -- Fielding the Referent
Notes
Index