In The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia's trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and ...spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public sphere. Combining historical and ethnographic research, Hegarty traces the participation of warias in visual and bodily technologies, ranging from psychiatry and medical transsexuality to photography and feminine beauty. The concept of development deployed by the modern Indonesian state relies on naturalizing the binary of "male" and "female." As historical brokers between gender as a technological system of classifying human difference and state citizenship, warias shaped the contours of modern selfhood even while being positioned as nonconforming within it. The Made-Up State illuminates warias as part of the social and technological format of state rule, which has given rise to new possibilities for seeing and being seen as a citizen in postcolonial Indonesia.
This open access book is a groundbreaking volume that creates a new field within the intersection of “global health” and “LGBTQ health” delineating specific health challenges and resiliencies. There ...has been increasing awareness of the importance in recognizing LGBTQ health issues and disparities. However, there is a dearth of research and scholarship that examines LGBTQ health through global and comparative perspectives. This book addresses this gap. In the pursuit of scientific inquiry, the disciplines in public health have often emphasized reductionist perspectives that are particularized to a specific locale, municipality, or country. This book's provision of broader perspectives, cross-cutting disparities and issues, and socio-political-cultural contextualization inform the development of new research, policies, interventions, and programs. Students benefit by learning about LGBTQ health research, policies, and programs in various countries and regions. Public health researchers benefit by learning about research conducted in various countries and regions, along with understanding how research has been linked to and impacted by various policies and programs. Policymakers benefit from learning about overarching and comparative perspectives that could inform more effective policies, including those connected to multiple locations. Practitioners learn about various public health practices in multiple countries and regions that could contribute to novel and creative solutions and approaches within the respective contexts. The nine chapters of this volume facilitate greater socio-political-cultural awareness, sensitivity, and competence; undertake an in-depth literature review of health factors and outcomes; and provide recommendations for increasing health-related capacity through development and collaborations between agencies, organizations, and institutions across countries and/or regions. Global LGBTQ Health: Research, Policy, Practice, and Pathways is primarily intended for students and instructors in public health, medicine, nursing, other health professions, psychology, social work, LGBTQ or gender/sexuality studies, human rights, and the social sciences. The book is also a useful resource for public health researchers and practitioners, policymakers, and healthcare and social service providers.
In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity , Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and ...space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms’especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.
In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, Boys Don’t Cry , Halberstam turns her attention to the cultural and artistic production of queers themselves. She examines the “transgender gaze,” as rendered in small art-house films like By Hook or By Crook , as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as Austin Powers and The Full Monty , and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one site for the development of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities.
Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing conceptions of space and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music. This pioneering book offers both a jumping off point for future analysis of transgenderism and an important new way to understand cultural constructions of time and place.
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:
Others of My Kind Bakker, Alex; Herrn, Rainer; Taylor, Michael Thomas ...
2020
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From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of gender identity. ...By exchanging letters and pictures among themselves they established private networks of affirmation and trust, and by submitting their stories and photographs to medical journals and popular magazines they sought to educate both doctors and the public. Others of My Kind draws on archives in Europe and North America to tell the story of this remarkable transatlantic transgender community. This book uncovers threads of connection between Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands to discover the people who influenced the work of authorities like Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and Alfred Kinsey not only with their clinical presentations, but also with their personal relationships. It explores the ethical and analytical challenges that come with the study of what was once private, secret, or unacceptable to say. With more than 180 colour and black and white illustrations, including many stunning, previously unpublished photographs, Others of My Kind celebrates the faces, lives, and personal networks of those who drove twentieth-century transgender history.
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and ...against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for political activism and political recognition. What happened in the last few decades to prompt such an extensive rethinking of our understanding of gendered embodiment? How did a stigmatized identity become so central to U.S. and European articulations of self? And how have people responded to the new definitions and understanding of sex and the gendered body? In Trans*, Jack Halberstam explores these recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores the possibilities of a nongendered, gender-optional, or gender-queer future.
Transforming Citizenshipsengages the performativity of citizenship as it relates to transgender individuals and advocacy groups. Instead of reading the law as a set of self-executing discourses, ...Isaac West takes up transgender rights claims as performative productions of complex legal subjectivities capable of queering accepted understandings of genders, sexualities, and the normative forces of the law.Drawing on an expansive archive, from the correspondence of a transwoman arrested for using a public bathroom in Los Angeles in 1954 to contemporary lobbying efforts of national transgender advocacy organizations, West advances a rethinking of law as capacious rhetorics of citizenship, justice, equality, and freedom. When approached from this perspective, citizenship can be recuperated from its status as the bad object of queer politics to better understand how legal discourses open up sites for identification across identity categories and enable political activities that escape the analytics of heteronormativity and homonationalism.Isaac Westis Assistant Professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa.
A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care ...practices have trans subjects and communities cultivated in the wake of widespread transphobia and systemic forms of trans exclusion? Trans Care is a critical intervention in how care labor and care ethics have been thought, arguing that dominant modes of conceiving and critiquing the politics and distribution of care entrench normative and cis-centric familial structures and gendered arrangements. A serious consideration of trans survival and flourishing requires a radical rethinking of how care operates. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Trans kids Meadow, Tey
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In the first comprehensive academic treatment of the emerging social, medical, and psychological category of the transgender child, ethnographer Tey Meadow introduces readers to a generation of ...parents who actively facilitate gender nonconformity in their children. Previous generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at cure, but today such families call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing their children choose, and even approach the state to alter their children's legal gender. Drawing on sociology, philosophy, psychology, and sexuality studies, Meadow depicts the intricate social processes that shape gender acquisition. Atypical gender expression was once considered a failure of gender, but now it is a form of gender that underscores both the centrality of ever more particular configurations of gender in psychic life and the increasing embeddedness of personal identities in social institutions
