You've Changed Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity

Name: You've Changed Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity
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ISBN: 9780195385700

ISBN-10: 0195385705

ISBN-13: 9780195385700

Edition: 2009

Authors: Laurie J. Shrage

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Is sex identity a feature of one's mind or body, and is it a relational or intrinsic property? Who is in the best position to know a person's sex, do we each have a true sex, and is a person's sex an alterable characteristic? When a person's sex assignment changes, has the old self disappeared and a new one emerged; or, has only the public presentation of one's self changed? "You've Changed" examines the philosophical questions raised by the phenomenon of sex reassignment, and brings together the essays of scholars known for their work in gender, sexuality, queer, and disability studies, feminist epistemology and science studies, and philosophical accounts of personal identity. An…

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List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction



Sex/Gender Transitions and Life-Changing Aspirations




Transsexuality and Contextual Identities




Tracing a Ghostly Memory in My Throat: Reflections on Ftm Feminist Voice and Agency




Transsexuality and Daseia Y. Cavers-Huff




The Sexual Schema: Transposition and Transgender in Phenomenology of Perception




Trans Identities and First-Person Authority




Queer Breasted Experience




Changing Race, Changing Sex: The Ethics of Self-Transformation




Artifice and Authenticity: Gender Technology and Agency in Two Jenny Saville Portraits




Sex and Miscibility




Who Do You Think You Are? When Should the Law Let You Be Who You Want to Be?



Index