Invisible Lives The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People

Name: Invisible Lives The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People
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ISBN: 9780226568096

ISBN-10: 0226568091

ISBN-13: 9780226568096

Edition: 2000

Authors: Viviane Namaste

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Invisible Livesis the first scholarly study of transgendered people—cross-dressers, drag queens and transsexuals—and their everyday lives. Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so muchproducedby medicine or psychiatry as they areerased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. Namaste begins her work by analyzing two theoretical perspectives on transgendered people—queer theory and the social sciences—displaying how neither of these has adequately addressed the issues most relevant to sex change: everything from employment to health care to identity papers. Namaste then examines some of…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Viviane Namaste is Concordia University Research Chair in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health and a professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Theory



"Tragic Misreadings": Queer Theory's Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity



Theory Trouble: Social Scientific Research and Transgendered People



Beyond Texualist and Objectivist Theory: Toward a Reflective Poststructuralist Sociology



Culture



"A Gang of Trannies": Gendered Discourse and Punk Culture



Gendered Nationalisms and Nationalized Genders: The Use of Metaphor in Mass Culture and U.S. Transsexual Activism



Research



Genderbashing: Sexuality, Gender, and the Regulation of Public Space



Access Denied: The Experiences of Transsexuals and Transgendered People with Health Care and Social Services in Toronto, Ontario



Clinical Research or Community Health? Transsexual Perceptions of Gender Identity Clinics



The Administration of Erasure The Bureaucracy of Legal Sex, a Vicious Circle of Administration, and HIV/AIDS in Quebec


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index