Invisible Lives
The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People
Seiten
2000
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-56810-2 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-56810-2 (ISBN)
Through combined theoretical and empirical study, this work argues that transgendered people are not so much "produced" by medicine or psychiatry as they are "erased", or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. An analysis is made of two theoretical perspectives on transgendered people - queer theory and the social sciences - displaying how neither of these has adequately addressed the issues most relevant to sex change: everything from employment to health care to identity papers. Namaste then examines some of the rhetorical and semiotic inscriptons of transgendered figures in culture - including studies of early punk and glam rock subcultures - to illustrate how the effacement of transgendered people is organized in different cultural sites. This text concludes with research on some of the day-to-day concerns of transgendered people, offering case studies in violence, health care, gender identity clinics and the law.
Viviane K. Namaste has a Ph.D. in semiotics from the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. She coordinates a community-based transsexual health care project of CACTUS- Montreal, and is involved with different advisory committees and research initiatives related to prisons, transsexual health, HIV, prostitution, and harm reduction.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.1.2001 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 15 x 23 mm |
Gewicht | 539 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-56810-5 / 0226568105 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-56810-2 / 9780226568102 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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