Invisible lives : the erasure of transsexual and transgendered people / Viviane K. Namaste.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

xiii, 340 pages ; 23 cm

Copy 1 Donor: Dr Dave King.

I. Theory. 1. "Tragic Misreadings": Queer Theory's Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity. 2. Theory Trouble: Social Scientific Research and Transgendered People. 3. Beyond Textualist and Objectivist Theory: Toward a Reflexive Poststructuralist Sociology -- II. Culture. 4. "A Gang of Trannies": Gendered Discourse and Punk Culture. 5. Gendered Nationalisms and Nationalized Genders: The Use of Metaphor in Mass Culture and U.S. Transsexual Activism -- III. Research. 6. Genderbashing: Sexuality, Gender, and the Regulation of Public Space. 7. Access Denied: The Experiences of Transsexuals and Transgendered People with Health Care and Social Services in Toronto, Ontario. 8. Clinical Research or Community Health?: Transsexual Perceptions of Gender Identity Clinics. 9. The Administration of Erasure: The Bureaucracy of Legal Sex, a Vicious Circle of Administration, and HIV/AIDS in Quebec.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.