Sex Is as Sex Does : Governing Transgender Identity /

"In this book, the author shows that the misclassification of transgender people, a phenomenon usually thought to be the result of transphobia, was in the past often deeply connected to systems that ensure the legal oppression of women. With the gradual disestablishment of gender from the state...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Currah, Paisley, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Transgender people > Identity.
Transgender people.
Gender nonconformity.
Gender identity.
Transgender people > Legal status, laws, etc.
Transgenrisme > États-Unis.
Identite sexuelle > États-Unis.
Transgenres > Identite.
Transgenres > États-Unis.
Transgender people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Gender nonconformity > United States.
Gender identity > United States.
Transgender people > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "If Sex Is Not a Biologic Phenomenon"
  • Sex and Popular Sovereignty
  • Sex Classification as a Technology of Governance
  • Till Birth Do Us Part : Marriage, ID Documents, and the Nation-State
  • Incarceration, Identity Politics, and the Trans-Cis Divide.

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