Transgender migrations : the bodies, borders, and politics of transition / edited by Trystan Cotten.

Date:
2011
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Publication/Creation

New York ; London : Routledge, 2011.

Physical description

viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-193) and index.

Contents

Introduction: migration and morphing / Trystan T. Cotten -- Colorful bodies in the Multikulti metropolis: vitality, victimology and transgressive citizenship in Berlin / Jin Haritaworn -- Forging "moral geographies": law, sexual minorities and internal tensions in Northern Mexico border towns / Vek Lewis -- Transgender movement(s) and beating the straight flush: building an art of trans washrooms / Lucas Crawford -- Queer exteriors: transgender aesthetics in early gay and lesbian advertising / Quinn Miller -- Spiderwomen: notes on transpositions / Eva Hayward -- "Passing for white, passing for man": Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man as transgender narrative / C. Riley Snorton -- Longevity and limits in Rae Bourbon's Life in motion / Don Romesburg -- The persistence of transgender travel narratives / Aren Z. Aizura -- Trans/scriptions: homing desires, (trans)sexual citizenship and racialized bodies / Nael Bhanji.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780415888455
  • 041588845X
  • 9780415888462
  • 0415888468
  • 9780203808269
  • 0203808266