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Laddar... Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Categoryav David Valentine
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“Valentine. . . does an excellent job in showing just how messy the category ‘transgender’ is; how it was born of a variety of discursive practices; how those discursive practices had little to do with the lived realities of many of the people the term ‘transgender’ claims to represent; and how taking the time to think critically about transgender as a category can create space, literal and symbolic, for those whose lives most thoroughly blur the neat distinctions between some of the foundational categories of our time: male/female, straight/gay, represented/not represented.” “Valentine’s writing manages to be both theoretically insightful and accessible. Whether musing on his bicycle as he travels between fieldwork sites of the street and the drag ball, or reflecting on conversations with clients and staff at GIP, Valentine presents a humorous, touching and very relevant political tale of the state of play of ‘transgender’. This is an extremely valuable contribution to work on gender and sexual diversities, and, importantly, a very enjoyable read.” “Undoubtedly, the book will become a base from which many others will be able to take up similar questions, and that is a significant contribution to the field. “ “In questioning the theoretical separation of sexuality and gender that has become a requirement for doing ethnographic research in women’s and gender studies, Valentine opens a path for a more complex understanding of the relationship between the two but also implicates the gender/sexuality debate in obscuring other positional factors, namely class and race.” “Highly accessible. . .”
An ethnography in which the author's fieldwork with transgendered and transsexual individuals in New York City demonstrates the creation and confusion of gender identity labels. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.768Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Relations between the sexes, sexualities, love Sexual orientation, gender identity Transsexual, Transgender, GenderqueerKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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The one that got me into this mess. Fascinating sociology (even if I still don't get the exact differences between a butch queen up in drags and... all the other ones), and some other interesting ideas. Not remotely a primer (oops).
Falls prey to a very typical problem with trans sociology: there's way more focus on (approximately) 'transfeminine' than (approximately) 'transmasculine' people. To his credit, Valentine talks to about two who could be classified as the latter. You have to wonder why the disparity in numbers happens, though.
I honestly haven't read this in a while so I'm not remembering much and perhaps not doing it justice here.