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1 online resource (123 pages). |
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text file |
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Sexual cultures
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Sexual cultures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"What can the killing of a transgender teen teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity? The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim as Larry, a gay boy, instead of Latisha, a trans girl, Gayle Salamon draws on the resources of feminist phenomenology to analyze what happened in the school and at the trial that followed. In building on the phenomenological concepts of anonymity and comportment, Salamon considers how gender functions in the social world and the dangers of being denied anonymity as both a particularizing and dehumanizing act. Salamon offers close readings of the court transcript and the bodily gestures of the participants in the courtroom to illuminate the ways gender and race were both evoked in and expunged from the narrative of the killing. Across court documents and media coverage, Salamon sheds light on the relation between the speakable and unspeakable in the workings of the transphobic imaginary. Interdisciplinary in both scope and method, the book considers the violences visited upon gender-nonconforming bodies that are surveilled and othered, and the contemporary resonances of the Latisha King killing."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Wednesday morning ; Latisha ; Not why, but how ; Critical phenomenology ; Race under erasure ; A note on names and pronouns -- Comportment. Dressing, telling, passing ; In full swing ; Passing: Age and race ; The banal arts: Erwin Strauss and the phenomenology of walking ; Looking at and looking for "Homosexuality in America" ; The turn -- Movement. Breaking the typicality of the world ; The simple click of her heel on the ground ; The shock of gender ; Gesture and meaning ; Agression, projection, horizon ; Suicide -- Anonymity. Everyone and no one, or the paradox of phenomenology ; Otherness and common sense ; "Lawrence King, a Human Being" ; Sedimentation and basal anonymity ; Anonymity and gender ; An ending -- Objects. The dress and the boots ; True size ; Ultra-things ; Phenomelogical ethics ; If something wasn't done soon ; Retroactive crossing-out -- Coda: Two days in February. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
King, Larry, 1993-2008.
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Transgender people -- United States -- Case studies.
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Transgender people. |
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United States. |
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Case studies.
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Murder -- United States -- Case studies.
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Murder. |
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Gender identity -- United States.
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Gender identity. |
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Sexual orientation -- United States.
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Transphobia -- United States.
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Homophobia -- United States.
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Sexual orientation. |
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Transphobia. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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Transphobia in literature. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Homophobia. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Case studies.
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Transgender people. |
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Gender identity. |
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Sexual orientation. |
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Sexual preference. |
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Transphobia. |
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Homophobia. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Salamon, Gayle. Life and death of Latisha King. New York : New York University Press, [2018] 9781479849215 9781479892525 (DLC) 2017034134 (OCoLC)1003489342 |
| ISBN |
9781479835911 (electronic book) |
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1479835919 (electronic book) |
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9781479849215 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1479849219 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781479892525 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1479892521 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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