Eric Plemons

The Look of a Woman

Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine

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Produktbeschreibung

Eric Plemons explores the ways in which facial feminization surgery is changing the ways in which trans- women are not only perceived of as women, but in the ways it is altering the project of surgical sex reassignment and the understandings of what sex means.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780822368861
• ISBN-10: 0822368862
• Artikelnr.: 46881031

Autorenporträt

Eric Plemons

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. On Origins  21
Interlude. The Procedures  39
2. Femininity in the Clinic  43
Interlude. Celebrate!  67
3. Cutting as Caring  71
4. Recognition and Refusal  89
Interlude. My Adam's Apple  109
5. The Operating Room  113
6. And After  135
Conclusion  151
Notes  157
References  169
Index  185