Suchergebnisse

Imagining transgender -- Making community -- "I know what I am" : gender, sexuality, and identity -- The making of a field : anthropology and transgender studies -- The logic of inclusion : transgender activism -- The calculus of pain : violence, narrative, and the self -- Conclusion: Making ethnography

The social construction of biological facts -- Self-definition : birth through adolescence -- Constructing the self : options and challenges -- Coming out to community, family, and work -- Gender policing -- Inner turmoil and moving toward acceptance -- Epilogue: Gender liberation

"While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, many transgender and gender-variant people sit in the congregation, marry under the chuppah, and create Jewish families. Balancing on the Mechitza gives voice to this movement in Jewish culture"--Provided by publisher

The bodily ego and the contested domain of the material -- The sexual schema : transposition and transgenderism in Phenomenology of perception -- Boys of the lex : transgender and social construction -- Transfeminism and the future of gender -- An ethics of transsexual difference : Luce Irigaray and the place of sexual undecidability -- Sexual indifference and the problem of the limit -- Withholding the letter : sex as state property

Feminist embattlement on the field of trans -- Revaluing gender diversity beyond the TS/TG hierarchy -- Desire and the "(un)becoming other" : the question of intelligibility -- Risking the unfamiliar : psychic complexity in theories of transsexual embodiment -- Still not in our genes : theorizing complex bodies