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Second Skins The Body Narratives of Transsexuality

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ISBN-10: 0231109350

ISBN-13: 9780231109352

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jay Prosser

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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 fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies. In this stunning first extensive study of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Showing how transsexuality's somatic transitions are spurred and enabled by the formal transitions of…    
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Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/7/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Laura Doan is professor of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is the author of Fashioning Sapphism(Columbia, 2001), editor of The Lesbian Postmodern(Columbia, 1994), and coeditor of Sexology Uncensored,and Sexology in Culture.Jay Prosser is author of Second Skins: Body Narratives of Transsexuality(Columbia, 1998) and is lecturer in American literature at the University of Leeds.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Transitions - Changing Bodies, Changing Narratives
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 Transsexuality
No Place Like Home: Transgender and Trans-Genre in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues
Epilogue: Transsexuality in Photography - Fielding the Referent
Notes
Index