Second skins
Subtitle: the body narratives of transsexuality
By: Jay Prosser.
Series: Gender and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Transsexualism.
Description: Focusing on the union of body and narrative, this work conveys how transsexuality has been moulded by autobiographical acts. It argues that the transsexual body - as a historical subject and the histories of individual transsexual subjects - is empowered by narrative.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-259) and index.
Based on author's dissertation (doctoral).