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Second skins : the body narratives of transsexuality /

Do we need bodies for sex' Is gender in the head or in the body' In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prosser, Jay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [1998]
Colección:Gender and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Judith Butler: queer feminism, transgender, and the transubstantiation of sex
  • A skin of one's own: toward a theory of transsexual embodiment
  • Mirror images: transsexuality and autobiography
  • "Some primitive thing conceived in a turbulent age of transition": the invert, The Well of Loneliness, and the narrative origins of transexuality
  • No place like home: transgender and trans-genre in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues