Transsexualism is a stimulating, proactive and important book. Colette Chiland does not back away from difficult issues. She forces all of us to look at our assumptions about t5ranssexualism and to ...re-examine what gender and sex really mean? - Christine Ware, author of Where Id Was: Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis ?In a nutshell, the book offers a much-needed alternative view of transsexuality from a psychiatric and European point of view… Chiland?s interesting and well presented book is a valued reminder of how different the same topic can appear in an alternative perspective? - Transgender Tapestry Colette Chiland exhibits a masterful and encyclopedic knowledge of transsexualism, drawing together the insights of depth psychology, psychoanalysis, history, anthropology and sociology for rethinking transsexualism in terms of identity, subjectivity and the wider socio- historical world. This book is written with considerable precision on complex, technical issues, whilst at the same time keeping the broader question of the relationship between transsexualism and society firmly in mind.
Gender Budgeting Stotsky, Janet Gale
10/01/2006, 2006
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Women are disadvantaged relative to men, according to key economic, social, and political measures of equality, but in many areas, such as education, differences are narrowing. The concept of ...externalities underlies the arguments for including gender considerations in budget programs and policies. Other arguments have a weaker economic basis but may be more socially or politically compelling. The experience to date with "gender budgeting," which entails looking at gender issues comprehensively within the budget, has been mixed. To become more useful, gender budgeting should be integrated into budget processes in a way that generates tangible improvements in policy outcomes. The International Monetary Fund should encourage fiscal authorities to take into account the external benefits of reducing gender inequalities and to remove from fiscal legislation any arbitrary discrimination against women.
How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such ...inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few decades ago. Yet stories of children with an in-between gender have always been, albeit symbolically, a part of popular culture. Drawing on fairy tales, as well as from personal narratives and clinical studies, this book explains how "Gender Identity Disorder" manifests in children, critically evaluating various clinical approaches and examining the ethical and legal issues surrounding the care and treatment of these youths. The book argues that Gender Identity Disorder is not pathology, and that medicine and society should assist children in expressing themselves, without attempting to force them to adapt to a gender that does not match with their perceived identity.
In this highly original volume, Gunnar Karlsson offers new answers to the question concerning the relationship between belonging to a specific sex as a male and striving for a masculine identity. ...This book offers a uniquely psychoanalytic and phenomenological perspective on masculinity. Karlsson considers masculinity and traditional masculine ideals through a psychoanalytic lens before taking phenomenological concepts to chisel out the relationship between sex and gender. This perspective is developed throughout the volume to inspire readers to further their understanding of traditional gender assignment – female, male and intersex – in light of gendered characteristics such as femininity and masculinity. Chapters span topics such as the characteristics of typical, so-called “phallic masculinity”, its allure and psychogenetic explanation, as well as looking at what phallic masculinity disregards. Throughout, Karlsson maintains that phallic masculinity is unattainable, as it seeks to escape the existential conditions of helplessness, vulnerability, and dependence. He makes the case for the importance of considering the notion of ego-identity in the field of sex/gender studies, encouraging a liberation from gender stereotypes. Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Reflections on Masculinity will be of great interest to researchers, clinical psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as anyone interested in masculinity, gender studies and the relationship between sex and gender. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
'From time to time we listen to some curious views on psychoanalysis as an old fashioned and useless discipline, more important from an historical perspective than as a tool for understanding human ...life in its normal and pathological dimensions, as well as an effective therapeutic instrument. This book on transsexualism and transvestism shows exactly how psychoanalysis can reflect, discuss, dialogue and formulate useful insights on one of the most challenging situations that nowadays confront all members of the mental health community. The author assembled this group of distinguished analytic thinkers, all of them with deep experience in the field of human sexuality, and asked them to contribute both to the attempt of understanding these relatively new forms of expression of human sexuality and what kind of interrelations psychoanalysis can offer. My own experience in the supervision of analytic psychotherapy with these patients shows me how simultaneously difficult and fascinating is the journey of each analyst or therapist who attempts to treat those patients.
Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and ...sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative discussion of Iranian feminism and its role in that country's current culture wars. In addition to providing an important new perspective on Iranian history, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how using gender as an analytic category can provide insight into structures of hierarchy and power and thus into the organization of politics and social life.
Welche Diskurse der Geschlechterforschung lassen sich identifizieren, wie verorten sie sich und an welche Denktraditionen knüpfen sie an? Angesichts der Vielfalt und Komplexität des ...wissenschaftlichen Gegenstandes Geschlecht verwundert es nicht, dass sich unterschiedliche disziplinäre Zugänge und Perspektiven entwickelt und herausgebildet haben. Der Band nimmt hier insbesondere die Disziplinen Soziologie, Ökonomie und Bildung in den Blick.; The anthology takes the diversity and complexity of the scientific subject of gender as an opportunity to discuss the various disciplinary approaches and perspectives of sociology, economics and education.
Body Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of
society's body outlaws-individuals from myriad social locations who
oppose hegemonic norms, customs, and conventions about the body.
Original ...research chapters (based on textual analysis, qualitative
interviews, and participant observation) along with personal
narratives provide a window into the everyday lives of people
rewriting the norms of embodiment in sites like schools, sporting
events, and doctors' offices. Table of Contents
Introduction | Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan Part I:
Going "Natural" • Body Hair Battlegrounds: The
Consequences, Reverberations, and Promises of Women Growing Their
Leg, Pubic, and Underarm Hair | Breanne Fahs • Radical
Doulas, Childbirth Activism, and the Politics of Embodiment |
Monica Basile • Caring for the Corpse: Embodied Transgression
and Transformation in Home Funeral Advocacy | Anne Esacove
Living Resistance: • Deconstructing Reconstructing: Challenging
Medical Advice Following Mastectomy | Joanna Rankin • My
Ten-Year Dreadlock Journey: Why I Love the "Kink" in My Hair . . .
Today | Cheryl Thompson • Living My Full Life: My
Rejecting Weight Loss as an Imperative for Recovery from Binge
Eating Disorder | Christina Fisanick • Pretty Brown:
Encounters with My Skin Color | Praveena Lakshmanan Part II:
Representing Resistance • Blood as Resistance:
Photography as Contemporary Menstrual Activism | Shayda Kafai
• Am I Pretty Enough for You Yet?: Resistance through Parody in
the Pretty or Ugly YouTube Trend | Katherine Phelps • The
Infidel in the Mirror: Mormon Women's Oppositional Embodiment
| Kelly Grove and Doug Schrock Living Resistance: • A Cystor's
Story: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and the Disruption of Normative
Femininity | Ledah McKellar • Old Bags Take a Stand: A
Face Off with Ageism in America | Faith Baum and Lori Petchers
• Making Up with My Body: Applying Cosmetics to Resist
Disembodiment | Haley Gentile • I Am a Person Now: Autism,
Indistinguishability, and (Non)optimal Outcome | Alyssa
Hillary Part III: Creating Community, Disrupting
Assumptions • Yelling and Pushing on the Bus: The
Complexity of Black Girls' Resistance | Stephanie D. Sears and
Maxine Leeds Craig • Big Gay Men's Performative Protest Against
Body Shaming: The Case of Girth and Mirth | Jason Whitesel
• "What's Love Got to Do with It?": The Embodied Activism of
Domestic Violence Survivors on Welfare | Sheila M. Katz Living
Resistance: • "Your Signing Is So Beautiful!": The Radical
Invisibility of ASL Interpreters in Public | Rachel Kolb •
Two Shakes | Rev. Adam Lawrence Dyer • "Showing Our
Muslim": Embracing the Hijab in the Era of Paradox | Sara
Rehman • "Doing Out": A Black Dandy Defies Gender Norms in the
Bronx | Mark Broomfield • Everybody: Making Fat Radio for
All of Us | Cat Pausé Part IV: Transforming Institutions
and Ideologies • Embodying Nonexistence: Encountering
Mono- and Cisnormativities in Everyday Life | J. E. Sumerau
• Freeing the Nipple: Encoding the Heterosexual Male Gaze into
Law | J. Shoshanna Ehrlich • Give Us a Twirl: Male Baton
Twirlers' Embodied Resistance in a Feminized Terrain | Trenton
M. Haltom • "That Gentle Somebody": Rethinking Black Female
Same-Sex Practices and Heteronormativity in Contemporary South
Africa | Taylor Riley Living Resistance:
Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag ...opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing—for both men and women—was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased? Citing a cultural moment at the turn of the twentieth century—when the frontier ended, the United States entered the modern era, and homosexuality was created as a category—Boag shows how the American people, and thus the American nation, were bequeathed an unambiguous heterosexual identity.
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