Surgery Issue
Plemons, Eric (EDT); Straayer, Chris (EDT)
ISBN 10: 147800052X ISBN 13: 9781478000525
Published by Duke University Press, 2018
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Trans* surgery has been an object of fantasy, derision, refusal, and triumph. Contributors to this issue explore the vital and contested place of surgical intervention in the making of trans* bodies, theories, and practices. For decades, clinicians considered a desire for reconstructive genital surgery to be the linchpin of the transsexual diagnosis. In the 1990s, new histories of trans* clinical practice challenged the institutional claim that transsexuals all wanted genital surgery, and trans* authors began to argue for their surgically altered bodies as sites of power rather than capitulation. Subsequent contestations of the medico-surgical framework helped mark the emergence of “transgender” as an alternative, more inclusive term for gender nonconforming subjects who were sometimes less concerned with surgical intervention. Contributors move beyond medical issue to engage “the surgical” in its many forms, exploring how trans* surgery has been construed and presented across different discursive forms and how these representations of trans* surgeries have helped and/or limited understanding of trans* identities and bodies and shaped the evolution of trans* politics.
Contributors. Paisley Currah, Joshua Franklin, Cressida J. Heyes, Julia Horncastle, Riki Lane, J.R. Latham, Sandra Mesics, Eric Plemons, Katherine Rachlin, Chris Straayer, Susan Stryker
Contributors. Paisley Currah, Joshua Franklin, Cressida J. Heyes, Julia Horncastle, Riki Lane, J.R. Latham, Sandra Mesics, Eric Plemons, Katherine Rachlin, Chris Straayer, Susan Stryker
About the Author:
Eric Plemons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and the author of The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine, also published by Duke University Press.
Chris Straayer is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University and author of Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies.
Chris Straayer is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University and author of Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies.
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Title: Surgery Issue
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New