Research Catalog

Title

The myth of the wrong body / Miquel Missé ; translated from Spanish by Frances Riddle.

Author

Missé, Miquel, 1986-

Publication

• Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Riddle, Frances

Description

xi, 142 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The most popular narrative about transgender suggests that some people are born in the wrong body - that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans activist Miguel Missé, this narrative is a harmful myth. It is rooted in a medical paradigm that typically leads to medical intervention - to the use of hormones and surgical operations. By proposing a particular solution (modifying one's body), doctors and psychiatrists make it difficult for trans people to overcome malaise about their body in other ways and prevent them from recognizing the burden of social norms. Drawing on his own personal experience, Missé makes the case for a different way of thinking about trans embodiment which focuses on gender identity. The trajectory that leads people to become trans is shaped by the rigidity of gender norms, where the only two models available to individuals are the masculine man and the feminine woman. But these are not the only possible choices, and by critically interrogating the rigidity of gender norms, Missé opens up a different way of thinking about being trans, beyond the essentialism of the medical paradigm." --

Uniform Title

Conquista del cuerpo equivocado. English

Alternative Title

Conquista del cuerpo equivocado.

Subject

• Gender nonconformity
• Transsexualism
• Transsexuals > Identity
• Transgender
• Gender minorities
• Transgenderism
• Medicalization
• Transsexual people
• Transgender people
• Transsexuals

Note

• Originally published in Spanish as "A la conquista del cuerpo equivocado" by Editorial Egales, 2018.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Includes translation from the Spanish.

Contents

Pt. I The Source of Suffering -- 1. Story of a Robbery -- 2. Uncovering an Alternate Narrative -- 3. Photo Albums, Guerrillas, Cabarets, and Other Trenches. Activism as a Lifeline -- Pt. II The Flood -- 4. Trans is Pop -- 5. Trojan Horses in a Trans Revolution -- Pt. III Toward a Critical Trans Corporal Ethic -- 6. Passing -- 7. Reconciliation -- Epilogue: I remain trapped in a body but it's no longer wrong

Call Number

JFD 23-52

ISBN

• 1509551875
• 9781509551873
• 9781509551880
• 1509551883

LCCN

2022930008

OCLC

1273477164

Author

Missé, Miquel, 1986- author.

Title

The myth of the wrong body / Miquel Missé ; translated from Spanish by Frances Riddle.

Publisher

Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Includes translation from the Spanish.

Added Author

Riddle, Frances, translator.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781509551897

Research Call Number

JFD 23-52