The Look of a Woman
Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine
Seiten
2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6914-1 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6914-1 (ISBN)
Eric Plemons explores the ways in which facial feminization surgery is changing the ways in which trans- women are not only perceived of as women, but in the ways it is altering the project of surgical sex reassignment and the understandings of what sex means.
Developed in the United States in the 1980s, facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgical procedures intended to feminize the faces of trans- women. While facial surgery was once considered auxiliary to genital surgery, many people now find that these procedures confer distinct benefits according to the different models of sex and gender in which they intervene. Surgeons advertise that FFS not only improves a trans- woman's appearance; it allows her to be recognized as a woman by those who see her. In The Look of a Woman Eric Plemons foregrounds the narratives of FFS patients and their surgeons as they move from consultation and the operating room to postsurgery recovery. He shows how the increasing popularity of FFS represents a shift away from genital-based conceptions of trans- selfhood in ways that mirror the evolving views of what is considered to be good trans- medicine. Outlining how conflicting models of trans- therapeutics play out in practice, Plemons demonstrates how FFS is changing the project of surgical sex reassignment by reconfiguring the kind of sex that surgery aims to change.
Developed in the United States in the 1980s, facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgical procedures intended to feminize the faces of trans- women. While facial surgery was once considered auxiliary to genital surgery, many people now find that these procedures confer distinct benefits according to the different models of sex and gender in which they intervene. Surgeons advertise that FFS not only improves a trans- woman's appearance; it allows her to be recognized as a woman by those who see her. In The Look of a Woman Eric Plemons foregrounds the narratives of FFS patients and their surgeons as they move from consultation and the operating room to postsurgery recovery. He shows how the increasing popularity of FFS represents a shift away from genital-based conceptions of trans- selfhood in ways that mirror the evolving views of what is considered to be good trans- medicine. Outlining how conflicting models of trans- therapeutics play out in practice, Plemons demonstrates how FFS is changing the project of surgical sex reassignment by reconfiguring the kind of sex that surgery aims to change.
Eric Plemons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. On Origins 21
Interlude. The Procedures 39
2. Femininity in the Clinic 43
Interlude. Celebrate! 67
3. Cutting as Caring 71
4. Recognition and Refusal 89
Interlude. My Adam's Apple 109
5. The Operating Room 113
6. And After 135
Conclusion 151
Notes 157
References 169
Index 185
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 illustrations |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 318 g |
Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Ästhetische und Plastische Chirurgie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8223-6914-1 / 0822369141 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-6914-1 / 9780822369141 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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