The Life and Death of Latisha King : A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia /

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"What can the killing of a transgender teen teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity? The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salamon, Gayle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
King, Larry, > 1993-2008.
Transphobia.
Transgender people.
Sexual orientation.
Murder.
Homophobia.
Gender identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Transphobie > États-Unis.
Orientation sexuelle > États-Unis.
Identite sexuelle > États-Unis.
Meurtre > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Transgenres > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Homophobia > United States.
Transphobia > United States.
Sexual orientation > United States.
Gender identity > United States.
Murder > United States > Case studies.
Transgender people > United States > Case studies.
United States.
Études de cas.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Wednesday morning ; Latisha ; Not why, but how ; Critical phenomenology ; Race under erasure ; A note on names and pronouns
  • Comportment. Dressing, telling, passing ; In full swing ; Passing: Age and race ; The banal arts: Erwin Strauss and the phenomenology of walking ; Looking at and looking for "Homosexuality in America" ; The turn
  • Movement. Breaking the typicality of the world ; The simple click of her heel on the ground ; The shock of gender ; Gesture and meaning ; Agression, projection, horizon ; Suicide
  • Anonymity. Everyone and no one, or the paradox of phenomenology ; Otherness and common sense ; "Lawrence King, a Human Being" ; Sedimentation and basal anonymity ; Anonymity and gender ; An ending
  • Objects. The dress and the boots ; True size ; Ultra-things ; Phenomelogical ethics ; If something wasn't done soon ; Retroactive crossing-out
  • Coda: Two days in February.

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