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Transgender Experience

Found in Transition

Edited by Chantal Zabus, David Coad

To Be Published December 1st 2013 by Routledge – 176 pages

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

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Description

This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, continental Europe, and South Africa, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on intimacy, erotics, agency, and experientiality. The volume covers the 1950s to the present day and examines autobiographical accounts, films featuring passing and various stages of transitioning, as well as interviews with trans people.

Reviews

"This lively addition to trans studies crosses diverse geographical and gender boundaries, forging important connections between personal narratives and theoretical claims." -Patricia Elliot, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Contents

Part 1: Revisiting (In)Visibilities 1. Claiming Space: Transgender Visibility in the Arts Eveline Kilian 2. Christine in the Cutting Room: The Cinematic Embodiment of Transsexual Celebrity Christine Jorgensen Susan Stryker 3. Transsexual Experiences: Photography, Gender and the Case of the Emperor’s New Clothes Sara Davidmann Part 2: Autobiographical Intimacies 4. Intimate Intersexions: Autobiography, Hermaphroditism, Intersex and Transgender; from Barbin to Valerio Chantal Zabus 5. Dragging our Heels: The Transsexual Empire, Arch Queens, and Butch Subalterns John Hawley 6. "Becoming Julia": Passing as a Male-to-Female Transsexual in Australia David Coad 7. "He uses my body": Female Traditional Healers, Male Ancestors and Transgender in South Africa Cheryl Stobie Part 3: French Trans and its Testimonies 8. My Sex is in My Head Ludwig Trovato 9. Mary, because it is beautiful… Bambi 10. On the History of Transsexuals in France, And How I Came to Study It Maxime Foerster Part 4: Inter-views on Diagnosis and Interviewing 11. Gender Trouble in France: Towards a Socio-Juridical Recognition of Trans-Identity Corinne Fortier 12. Studs, Stems, and Fishy Boys: Adolescent Latino Gender Variance and the Slippery Diagnosis of Transsexuality Vernon Rosario

Author Bio

Chantal Zabus is the "Institut universitaire de France" (IUF) Chair of Comparative Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at the Universities Sorbonne-Paris-Cité.

David Coad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Valenciennes in France.

Name: Transgender Experience: Found in Transition (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Chantal Zabus, David Coad. This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, continental Europe, and South Africa, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with...
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