Imagining Transgender An Ethnography of a Category

Name: Imagining Transgender An Ethnography of a Category
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ISBN: 9780822338697

ISBN-10: 0822338696

ISBN-13: 9780822338697

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Valentine

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"Imagining Transgender" is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during the late 1990s, David Valentine conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, bars, and clubs. However, he found that many of those labeled "transgender" by activists did not know the…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Imagining Transgender


Introduction



Imagining Transgender



Making Community, Conceiving Identity


Introduction to Part II: Reframing Community and Identity



Making Community



"I Know What I Am": Gender, Sexuality, and Identity



Emerging Fields


Introduction to Part III: The Transexual, the Anthropologist, and the Rabbi



The Making of a Field: Anthropology and Transgender Studies



The Logic of Inclusion: Transgender Activism



The Calculus of Pain: Violence, Narrative, and the Self


Conclusion: Making Ethnography


Notes


Works Cited


Index