Transgender experience : place, ethnicity, and visibility / edited by Chantal Zabus, David Coad.

"This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, continental Europe, and South Africa, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on intimacy, erotics, agency, and expe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Zabus, Chantal J. (Editor), Coad, David, 1958- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Series:Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 59.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I. Place
  • On the History of Transsexuals in France / Maxime Foerster
  • Marie, Because It Is Beautiful / Marie-Pierre Pruvot (Bambi)
  • My Sex Is in My Head / Ludwig Trovato
  • PART II. Ethnicity
  • Studs, Stems, and Fishy Boys : Adolescent Latino Gender Variance and the Slippery Diagnosis of Transsexuality / Vernon A. Rosario
  • Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy) : The Transsexual Whiteness of Christine Jorgensen in the (Post) Colonial Philippines / Susan Stryker
  • PART III. Visibility
  • Claiming Space : Transgender Visibility in the Arts / Eveline Kilian
  • Transsexual Experiences : Photography, Gender, and the Case of the Emperor's New Clothes / Sara Davidmann
  • The Politics of Home in Becomong Julia : Transsexual Experience in Australia / David Coad
  • Trans Autobiographies as Performative Utterances / John C. Hawley
  • Trans Africa : Between Transgendered "Possession" and Transsexuality in South African Experiential Narratives / Chantal Zabus.