Transgender nation /
This book asks what transsexual ideology, individual transsexuals, transgenderists and cross-dressers and the representations of transgenderists in the popular media reveal about contemporary U.S. gender attitudes.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bowling Green, OH :
Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
[1994]
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| Summary: | This book asks what transsexual ideology, individual transsexuals, transgenderists and cross-dressers and the representations of transgenderists in the popular media reveal about contemporary U.S. gender attitudes. "Gender is the mine field we pass through every day. In the United States of materialism, gender is all too often determined by which anatomical sex you are. From birth we are bombarded with gender propaganda that pits the sexes and the genders against each other. Transgenderists as gender nonconformists challenge us to rethink traditional discourses on sex and gender. Transgender Nation dares to look at the male-to-woman transgenderist and transsexual from a sociocultural and sociopolitical perspective and maintains that it is not the individual transgenderist that is sick and in need of treatment but rather the culture that must be treated. Transgender Nation explores historical sexological categories and decodes contemporary "treatments" like sex reassignment surgery all too often encourage assimilation and negate differences. Proposals for endocrinological euthanasia are examined for what they reveal about personal and cultural attitudes about gender. In addition popular cultural representations of transgenderists as homocidal maniacs dressed to kill are contrasted with the grim reality that in a transgenderphobic, homophobic, and misogynistic culture they are more likely to be killed because they dress."--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | One of the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copies was acquired as part of The Phyllis R. Frye Collection. One of the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copies is inscribed by the author to Frye. One of the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copies was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-190). |
| ISBN: | 0879725966 9780879725969 0879725974 9780879725976 |