David Valentine

Imagining Transgender

An Ethnography of a Category

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents an examination of the emergence and institutionalization of "transgender" as a category of collective identity. This book analyzes the reasons for and potential consequences of this difference - between how some of the gender variant people conceive of themselves and how they are perceived by service providers and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338697
• ISBN-10: 0822338696
• Artikelnr.: 22881733

Autorenporträt

David Valentine is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Part I: Imagining Transgender
Introduction 3
1. Imagining Transgender 29
Part II: Making Community, Conceiving Identity
Introduction to Part II: Reframing Community and Identity 68
2. Making Community 71
3. “I Know What I Am”: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity 105
Part III: Emerging Fields
Introduction to Part III: The Transexual, the Anthropologist, and the Rabbi
140
4. The Making of a Field: Anthropology and Transgender Studies 143
5. The Logic of Inclusion: Transgender Activism 173
6. The Calculus of Pain: Violence, Narrative, and the Self 204
Conclusion: Making Ethnography 231
Notes 257
Works Cited 277
Index 299