UID:
almafu_9959229550902883
Format:
1 online resource (341 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4384-4408-7
Content:
Honorable Mention, 2013 Ruth Benedict Book Prize presented by the Association for Queer AnthropologyHonorable Mention, 2014 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Section on Sexualities of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2013 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies presented by the Center for Gay and Lesbian StudiesSex in Transition explores the lives of those who undermine the man/woman binary, exposing the gendered contradictions of apartheid and the transition to democracy in South Africa. In this context, gender liminality—a way to describe spaces between common conceptions of "man" and "woman"—is expressed by South Africans who identify as transgender, transsexual, transvestite, intersex, lesbian, gay, and/or eschew these categories altogether. This book is the first academic exploration of challenges to the man/woman binary on the African continent and brings together gender, queer, and postcolonial studies to question the stability of sex. It examines issues including why transsexuals' sex transitions were encouraged under apartheid and illegal during the political transition to democracy and how butch lesbians and drag queens in urban townships reshape race and gender. Sex in Transition challenges the dominance of theoretical frameworks based in the global North, drawing on fifteen years of research in South Africa to define the parameters of a new transnational transgender and sexuality studies.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Introduction: transition matters -- Transdisciplinary situations -- Historicizing gendered and political transition -- Simone Heradien : July 24, 1997 -- Toward sex in transition -- Prescribing gender and enforcing sex -- Foundations of "transsexual" -- Prescribing gender : South African medical conceptions of transsexuality -- Enforcing sex : transsexuals and South African law -- Politics and medical technology in transition -- Transsexuals' categorical existence -- Movements forward -- Medical experimentation and the raced incongruence of gender -- Medicine in apartheid and transitional South Africa -- "Lots of things can go wrong" : medical experimentation on transsexuals -- "Military mutilation : how the SADF forced gay solidiers to become women" -- Lasting implications of raced gender incongruence -- Redefining transition through necropolitics -- Approaches to transition -- Envisioning freedom -- Beyond liminality and "states of injury" -- Changing definitions and "fantasized objects" -- Bureaucratic boundaries and forced liminality -- The postcolony and transnational connections -- Becoming a subject through confronting death -- Stealth and reality -- Inferences : "visions of the freedom not yet come" -- Stabane, raced intersexuality, and same-sex relationships in Soweto -- Contextualizing and racing intersexuality -- Stabane in Soweto -- Stabane and sexual interactions -- Interpretations of Stabane in varied contexts -- Implications of Stabane -- Why this matters -- Moffies, artists, and queens : race and the production of gay male drag in South Africa's transition -- Conceptual frameworks of drag -- Racing south african drag -- Urban whiteness and drag -- Femininity and township drag -- "Performing" in south africa : extending performitivity with kinky politics -- Conclusion: "extra-transsexual" meanings and transgender politics -- Simone Heradien : September 15, 2007 -- Histories through transitions -- Transitioning from the transition -- "Extra-transsexual" transitions -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-4407-9
Language:
English
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