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CONTENTS; Prologue vii; Chapter 1. An Introduction to Transgender Terms and Concepts 1; Chapter 2. A Hundred Years of Transgender History 31; Chapter 3. Transgender Liberation 59; Chapter 4. The Difficult Decades 91; Chapter 5. The Current Wave 121; Reader's Guide 155; Further Reading and Resources 158; Sources 165; Index 175; Acknowledgments 185; About the Author 186

`The field of "transgender" and "transpositionality" has been carved out as a new field of inquiry in the past decade, showing the fragmentation and diversification of masculinities and feminities - along with the error of any sharp polarisation. Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field and have mined it richly since the 1970's. The book brings together a brilliant synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich but always grounded account of this field, p

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.

A comprehensive and important text for health care professionalsGender variance is widely misunderstood, and few medical texts examine the social, legal, emotional, historical, biological, and economic issues involved. Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery provides medical and health care guidelines and comprehensive information on all aspects of treatment of gender diverse individuals. This one-of-a-kind resource examines a full range of relevant data important to health care professionals. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of care, written by an authority on that sub-special

"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

Featuring more than 20 original voices, all with a great deal to say about today's transgender experience, this illuminating collection offers a brand-new tone for the literary world. Complemented by the extraordinary photographs of renowned transgender photographer Robert Hamblin, these unique stories are interspersed with discussion chapters, body maps, and archival material. The true accounts collected here touch on the isolation and despair that many individuals in this marginalized group feel and each explains the need to counter negative stereotypes, reduce discrimination, and

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.