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HauptbeschreibungFemminielli werden als Jungen geboren, nehmen später weibliche Namen an, kleiden sich und formen ihre Körper nach weiblichen Vorbildern. Sie bilden damit eine lokale Form von Transgender aus, die sich von derjenigen trans- und intersexueller Menschen unterscheidet. Marco Atlas ist dem Alltag von Femminielli in Neapel gefolgt: In seiner Studie untersucht er die hundertjährige lokale Geschichte sowie die heutigen Lebensverhältnisse dieser Gruppe, ihre Arbeit als Prostituierte, ihre familiären Beziehungen und ihre sozialen Funktionen. An ihrem Beispiel zeigt er, dass diese Geschl.

Transgender theory is an emerging theoretical orientation on the nature of gender and gender identity in understanding the lived experiences of transgender and transsexual individuals. It is distinct in emphasizing the importance of physical embodiment in gender and sexual identity. Transgender theory integrates this embodiment with the self and socially constructed aspects of identity through the lived experiences of those with intersecting identities. Thus, it provides a theoretical basis for reconciling feminist and queer theoretical scholarship with social work practice and advocacy, with regard not only to issues of working with transgenders but also to larger issues of group identity and social oppression. This article describes the emergence of transgender theory from feminist and queer theories that used social constructivist approaches to challenge essentialist ideas that maintained the oppression of certain gender and sexual identities. Transgender theory is also applied to specific issues of understanding, working with, and empowering transgender persons and building coalitions between them and other socially oppressed groups.

Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domains of women's studies, sexuality, gender and transgender studies, Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory provides a critical analysis of key texts and theories, engaging in a dialogue with prominent theorists of transgendered identity, embodiment and sexual politics, and intervening in various aspects of a conceptually and politically difficult terrain. A central concern is the question of whether the theories and practices needed to foster and secure the lives of transsexuals and transgendered persons will be promoted or undermined - a concern that raises broader social, political, and ethical questions surrounding assumptions about gender, sexuality, and sexual difference; perceptions of transgendered embodiments and identities; and conceptions of divergent desires, goals and visions.

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

Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity emerges from, and speaks to, recent sociological considerations of 'transgender.'
The term 'transgender' denotes a range of gender experiences,
subjectivities and presentations that fall across, between or beyond stable
categories of 'man' and 'woman.' 'Transgender' includes gender identities
that have, more traditionally, been described as 'transsexual,'1 and a diversity
of genders that call into question an assumed relationship between gender
identity and presentation and the 'sexed' body.

Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity emerges from, and speaks to, recent sociological considerations of 'transgender.'
The term 'transgender' denotes a range of gender experiences,
subjectivities and presentations that fall across, between or beyond stable
categories of 'man' and 'woman.' 'Transgender' includes gender identities
that have, more traditionally, been described as 'transsexual,'1 and a diversity
of genders that call into question an assumed relationship between gender
identity and presentation and the 'sexed' body.
This introduction serves three purposes.

Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domains of women's studies, sexuality, gender and transgender studies, Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory provides a critical analysis of key texts and theories, engaging in a dialogue with prominent theorists of transgendered identity, embodiment and sexual politics, and intervening in various aspects of a conceptually and politically difficult terrain. A central concern is the question of whether the theories and practices needed to foster and secure the lives of transsexuals and transgendered persons will be promoted or undermined - a concern that raises broader social, political, and ethical questions surrounding assumptions about gender, sexuality, and sexual difference; perceptions of transgendered embodiments and identities; and conceptions of divergent desires, goals and visions.

In response to concerns voiced by Judith Butler and Joan Copjec regarding the possible incompatibility of the discourses of Lacanian psychoanalysis and gender studies, this paper argues that gender studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis can hope for a meeting ground precisely around the topic of ``sexual difference.'' Questions about transgender subjectivities afford a point of entry for thinking through the impasses and political purchase of a necessarily contestatory integration of these two domains; however, imagining this integration requires in part an analysis of each discourse's limitations. This paper suggests that one of the limitations of Lacanian psychoanalysis resides in the too easy capitulation of the terms ``feminine'' and ``masculine'' to ``gendered'' readings. Arguing that Jacques Lacan's formulas of sexuation write against the facile collapse of sexual difference into gender identity, the paper considers what it would look like to conceptualize transgender subjectivity as an expression of the logic of sexual difference, ultimately suggesting there may be a way of reading transgenderism as a ``feminine'' phenomenon. The paper responds to two texts also invested in the integration of Lacanian psychoanalytic and queer/feminist concerns: Judith Butler's Antigone's Claim and Tim Dean's Beyond Sexuality. Dean's project to ``de-gender'' desire offers a reply to Butler's concerns about the compulsory heterosexuality of the Oedipal scene; however, both texts, in their preoccupation with scenes Oedipal and object based, occlude to some extent a ``feminine'' perspective and by extension significant ``feminine''/transgender insights concerning sexual difference.