Prosser, Jay.

Second Skins : The Body Narratives of Transsexuality. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (283 pages) - Gender and Culture Series . - Gender and Culture Series .

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Transitions -- Changing Bodies, Changing Narratives -- Part 1: Bodies -- 1. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of Sex -- 2. A Skin of One's Own: Toward a Theory of Transsexual Embodiment -- Part 2: Narratives -- 3. Mirror Images: Transsexuality and Autobiography -- 4. "Some Primitive Thing Conceived in a Turbulent Age of Transition": The Invert, The Well of Loneliness, and the Narrative Origins of Transexuality -- 5. No Place Like Home: Transgender and Trans-Genre in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues -- Epilogue: Transsexuality in Photography -- Fielding the Referent -- Notes -- Index.

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Transsexualism.


Electronic books.

HQ77.9 .P767 1998

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