Assuming a Body; Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality - Gayle Salamon
We believe we know our bodies intimately—that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these...
De poëtische taal van de adolescent; over de schoonheid van het anders-zijn - Jeroen Lutters
Dit boek behandelt de adolescentie in de kunst. Adolescentie in fictie wordt benaderd als een complex taalspel. In deze studie vertelt de auteur op hoogst oorspronkelijke wijze, met behulp van een methodiek genaamd Art Based Learning, hoe we door het bestuderen van kunst heel...
The Transgender Studies Reader - Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle
Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and...
Changing Sex; transgender, technology, and the idea of gender - Bernice, L. Hausman
Changing Sex takes a bold new approach to the study of transsexualism in the twentieth century. By addressing the significance of medical technology to the phenomenon of transsexualism, Bernice L. Hausman transforms current conceptions of transsexuality as a disorder of gender...
Queersexlife. Autobiographical notes on sexuality, gender & identity. - Terry Goldie
Evocative of writers Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, whose best works explore gender and sexuality through personal memoir, queersexlife is a frank and intimate collection of responses to theories of queer sexuality and identity as viewed through the author's own...
Imagining Transgender; An Ethnography of a Category - David Valentine
'Imagining Transgender' is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum...
