Research Catalog

Title

Trans : transgender life stories from South Africa / edited by Ruth Morgan, Charl Marais & Joy Rosemary Wellbeloved.

Publication

Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Morgan, Ruth.
• Marais, Charl.
• Wellbeloved, Joy Rosemary.

Description

iv, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"With more than twenty original voices from the trans community in South Africa, this book is a journal of shared experiences for trans people and a fascinating point of departure for interested members of the general public. The contributors who 'transitioned, are transitioning or will transition', have all been actively involved in the process of making the book and have a great deal to say about their personal experiences of being transgender today. Their illuminating and touching life stories are complemented by the extraordinary photographs by renowned photographer, Robert Hamblin. Many of the stories collected here touch on the isolation that transgender people often feel in their communities. Transgender issues are a taboo subject for discussion, which are either ignored by the media, or covered in an invasive, insensitive and sensationalist way. The stories stress the need to provide accurate information, counter negative stereotypes, reduce discrimination, provide transgender people with honest representations of their lives, and offer visible, positive role models. This book brings us all a small step closer to a future where no young transgender person in South Africa grows up in isolation and despair"--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Transgender people > South Africa
• Transgender people > South Africa > Social conditions
• Transgender people > South Africa > Biography
• Gender nonconformity > South Africa
• Gender identity > South Africa
• Gender identity
• Transgender people
• Gender nonconformity
• Transsexualism > genus > livsberättelser > Sydafrika
• Sexualitet > homosexualitet > lesbianism
• Transpersoner > Sydafrika
• South Africa

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: My name is / Robert Hamblin -- Leo's story: "A boy in my dreams and imagination" -- Charl's story: "Back in the 70s there was no support" -- Prier's story: "For a short time I seemed to be a woman, my face felt soft" -- Lyndsay's story: "Gender for me has always been a complex question" -- Kgaogelo's story: "Gogos would refer to me as ngwaninyana" -- Marlene's story: "I felt lonely trying to be a man" -- Vanya's story: "I'm a full woman" -- Vanya's mother's story: "Let your child be" -- Petra D's story: "I'm an in-between person" -- Laura's story: "I was sewing the world together" -- Alex's story: "It's not a penis that makes a man" -- Charlie's story: "It is all about what's in your heart" -- Chantelle's story: "Living close to the edge" -- Lester's story: "Living it out" -- Tebogo's story: "My ancestor was living through me" -- Joy's story: "Now I make my own maps" -- Robert's story: "OH! This is what it feels like to be normal."
• Contents note continued: Real life / Amanda Watson -- Angelique's story: "Sent back to the DRC" -- Candice's story: "Smooth-sailing" -- The SOFFA perspective / Liesl Theron -- "This testosterone thing is opening doors" -- Simone's story: "Three of us took on the entire system" -- Zama's story: "To be the best man I can be" -- Zama's brother's story: "I kept him close, I befriended him" -- Zana's story: "Yes Mama, I want to be a woman" -- Nazmah's story: "You could see the girl shining out" -- Terrick's story: "Your body isn't who you are, it's what you are in" -- Keisha's story: "When you please everybody else you destroy yourself."

ISBN

• 9781920196226
• 1920196226

LCCN

2010375544

OCLC

• ocn456175534
• 456175534
• SCSB-1543090

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library