Assuming a Body Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality

Name: Assuming a Body Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
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ISBN: 9780231149594

ISBN-10: 023114959X

ISBN-13: 9780231149594

Edition: 2010

Authors: Gayle Salamon

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We believe we know our bodies intimately& mdash;that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering questions of transgendered embodiment via phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty), psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud and Paul Ferdinand Schilder), and queer theory, Salamon advances an alternative theory of normative and non-normative gender, proving the value and vitality of trans experience for thinking about embodiment.Salamon suggests that the difference between transgendered and…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.82" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



What Is a Body?



The Bodily Ego and the Contested Domain of the Material



The Sexual Schema: Transposition and Transgender in Phenomenology of Perception



Homoerratics



Boys of the Lex: Transgender and Social Construction



Transfeminism and the Future of Gender



Transcending Sexual Difference



An Ethics of Transsexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and the Place of Sexual Undecidability



Sexual Indifference and the Problem of the Limit



Beyond the Law



Withholding the Letter: Sex as State Property


Notes


Bibliography


Index