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Recognizing transsexuals : personal, political and medicolegal embodiment

Author
Davy, Zowie.
Title
Recognizing transsexuals : personal, political and medicolegal embodiment / Zowie Davy.
Format
Book
Published
Farnham : Ashgate, 2011.
Description
195 p. ;
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: universal shifts?
  • Shifting the medicolegal constructions of transsexuals' embodiment and bodily aesthetics
  • Theorizing trans embodiment and bodily aesthetics
  • Recognizing transmen's body projects 00 Recognizing transwomen's body projects
  • Recognizing transsexuals' agency
  • Framing bodies in trans-community organizations (T-CO)
  • Conclusion: a springboard from which to leap.
Kinsey subjects
Transsexualism. Transsexual surgery and adjustment. Transsexualism research. Transsexualism psychoanalysis. Body image.
ISBN
9781409405658 (hbk.) 1409405656 (hbk.)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
538.2 D29 r4 2011
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute