Aren Z. Aizura

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Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment

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Produktbeschreibung

Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives about traveling for gender reassignment from 1952 to the present, showing how transgender fantasies about reinvention and mobility are racialized as white and often rely on violent colonial global divisions.

Produktdetails

• Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001560
• ISBN-10: 1478001569
• Artikelnr.: 52640930

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