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Umfang: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442689503

Inhalt: Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines why so many transpeople are treated with such prejudice from a broad range of the socio-political spectrum, and how society can - and must - improve its understanding of transpeople and trans-related issues. Shelley's study of discrimination and acceptance uses an interdisciplinary approach that includes in-depth interviews with ten male-to-female and ten female-to-male transpeople, along with psychological, feminist, and political theory. He studies both the inadvertent challenges that transpeople make to traditional sex and gender definitions, and the reactions of resistance, defensiveness, and phobias of non-trans people when sex and gender norms are challenged. A vitally important work of gender and sex theory, Transpeople provides innumerable insights into both the experiences of transpeople, and the root causes of gender- and sex-related discrimination.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Abbreviations -- , 1. Introduction: Transpeople and the Problem of Re/Action -- , 2. Repudiation and Transphobia: Concepts, Theory, and Experience -- , 3. Social Repudiation -- , 4. The Political Repudiations of Trans Subjectivity -- , 5. Talking Back: Historicizing the Repudiation of Transsexualism -- , 6. Adlerian Theory -- , 7. Conclusion: The Gendered and Trans/gendered Self -- , Notes -- , References -- , Name Index -- , Subject Index , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.3138/9781442689503

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689503

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Umfang: 1 online resource (267 p.)

ISBN: 1-4426-9255-3 , 1-4426-8950-1

Inhalt: "Transgendered people face myriad forms of prejudice in their everyday lives, not only from social conservatives, but even from many leftists, psychiatrists, feminists, and lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley provides an in-depth study of the repudiation and indignity many transpeople suffer, and looks at what society can do to improve understanding of transpeople and trans-related issues." "In this work, Shelley uses an interdisciplinary approach that includes extensive interviews with both male-to-female and female-to-male transpeople. Addressing both mainstream and radical psychological, feminist, and political theory, he examines the serious challenges that transpeople present to traditional sex and gender norms, as well as the often intense reactions of non-trans people when these norms are called into question." "Combining rich theoretical perspectives and qualitative research, Transpeople provides valuable insights into both the experiences of transpeople and the root causes of gender-based discrimination."--Jacket

Anmerkung: Introduction: transpeople and the problem of re/action -- Repudiation and transphobia: concepts, theory, and experience -- Social repudiation -- The political repudiations of trans subjectivity -- Talking back: historicizing the repudiation of transsexualism -- Adlerian theory -- Conclusion: the gendered and trans/gendered self. , Issued also in print. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-8020-9539-9

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-8020-9784-7

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Interviews. ; Electronic books.

DOI: 10.3138/9781442689503