Invisible Lives - Viviane Namaste

Invisible Lives

The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2000
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-56810-2 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
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
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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