Aizura Aren Z. Aizura

Mobile Subjects (eBook, PDF)

Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment

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Produktbeschreibung

The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white, global citizen. In so doing, he shows how understandings of travel and mobility depend on the historical architectures of colonialism and contemporary patterns of global consumption and labor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002642
• Artikelnr.: 54674112

Autorenporträt

Aren Z. Aizura

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Provincializing Trans  1
Part I
1. The Persistence of Trans Travel Narratives  29
2. On Location: Transsexual Autobiographies, Whiteness, and Travel  59
3. Documentary and the Metronormative Trans Migration Plot  03
Part II
Interlude  135
4. Gender Reassignment and Transnational Entrepreneurialisms of the Self 
137
5. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai
Gender Reassignment Clinics  174
Epilogue: Visions of Trans Worlding  207
Notes  221
Bibliography  245
Index  269