Research Catalog

Title

Sex change, social change : reflections on identity, institutions, and imperialism / Viviane Namaste.

Author

Namaste, Viviane K.

Publication

Toronto : Women's Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

xx, 288 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism provides readers with an authoritative introduction to contemporary transsexual politics in Canadian and Québécois contexts. Through different case studies relating to the law, human rights, health care, and prostitution, Dr. Namaste exposes readers to the complex issues involved in how transsexual politics and feminism interrelate. Written in accessible language, and including interviews, essays, and political speeches, Sex Change, Social Change will appeal to academics and to activists in the community, as well as to the general reader. The second edition has been thoroughly updated with five new chapters and includes new commentary on the readings from the first edition."--Pub. website.

Subject

• Transsexualism > Canada
• Transsexuals > Canada > Political activity
• Transsexuals > Identity
• Transgender people > Civil rights
• Feminist theory
• Transsexualisme > Canada
• Transsexuels > Canada > Activité politique
• Transsexuels > Identité
• Transgenres > Droits
• Théorie féministe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Chapter 1: Making the Lives of Transsexual People Visible: Addressing the Politics of Social Erasure -- Chapter 2: Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity and Institutions -- Chapter 3: Transsexuals Behind Bars -- Chapter 4: Beyond Image Content: Examining Transsexuals' Access to the Media -- Chapter 5: Inclusive Pedagogy in the Women's Studies Classroom: Teaching the Kimberly Nixon Case -- Written in collaboration with Georgia Sitara -- Chapter 6: Statement for Social Service Agencies and Transsexual Transgender Organizations on Service Delivery to Transsexual and Transvestite Prostitutes -- With Monica Forrester, Jamie-Lee Hamilton, Viviane Namaste, and Mirha-Soleil Ross -- Chapter 7: Ten Things to Know about Trans People and HIV.
• Chapter 8: "Activists can't go on forever acting in the abstract": An Interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross -- Chapter 9: Against Transgender Rights: Understanding the Imperialism of Contemporary Transgender Politics -- Chapter 10: "Formal equality can actually be seen to function as a barrier to substantive equality": An Interview with Lane Mandlis -- Chapter 11: Critical Research and Activisms on Trans Issues in Latin America: An Interview with Vek Lewis -- Chapter 12: "Tragic Misreadings": Queer Theory's Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity -- Chapter 13: Undoing Theory: "The Transgender Question" and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory.

ISBN

• 9780889614833
• 0889614830

LCCN

^^2011459718

OCLC

• 747309206
• SCSB-10626820

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library