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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: transition matters -- Transdisciplinary situations -- Historicizing gendered and political transition -- Simone Heradien : July 24, 1997 -- Toward sex in transition -- Prescribing gender and enforcing sex -- Foundations of "transsexual" -- Prescribing gender : South African medical conceptions of transsexuality -- Enforcing sex : transsexuals and South African law -- Politics and medical technology in transition -- Transsexuals' categorical existence -- Movements forward -- Medical experimentation and the raced incongruence of gender -- Medicine in apartheid and transitional South Africa -- "Lots of things can go wrong" : medical experimentation on transsexuals -- "Military mutilation : how the SADF forced gay solidiers to become women" -- Lasting implications of raced gender incongruence -- Redefining transition through necropolitics -- Approaches to transition -- Envisioning freedom -- Beyond liminality and "states of injury." |
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Changing definitions and "fantasized objects" -- Bureaucratic boundaries and forced liminality -- The postcolony and transnational connections -- Becoming a subject through confronting death -- Stealth and reality -- Inferences : "visions of the freedom not yet come" -- Stabane, raced intersexuality, and same-sex relationships in Soweto -- Contextualizing and racing intersexuality -- Stabane in Soweto -- Stabane and sexual interactions -- Interpretations of Stabane in varied contexts -- Implications of Stabane -- Why this matters -- Moffies, artists, and queens : race and the production of gay male drag in South Africa's transition -- Conceptual frameworks of drag -- Racing south african drag -- Urban whiteness and drag -- Femininity and township drag -- "Performing" in south africa : extending performitivity with kinky politics -- Conclusion: "extra-transsexual" meanings and transgender politics -- Simone Heradien : September 15, 2007 -- Histories through transitions. |
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Transitioning from the transition -- "Extra-transsexual" transitions -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gender identity -- South Africa.
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Gender identity. |
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South Africa. |
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Intersexuality -- South Africa.
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Intersexuality. |
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Transsexuals -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa.
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Transsexuals -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Transsexualism -- South Africa -- History.
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Transsexualism. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Gender identity. |
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Intersex variations. |
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Transsexual people. |
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Transsexualism. |
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781438444062 1438444060 (DLC) 2011047984 |
| ISBN |
9781438444086 |
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1438444087 |
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9781438444062 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9781438444079 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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1438444060 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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1438444079 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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