Trans People's Partnerships
Subtitle: Towards an ethics of intimacy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, England, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230224643
Description: To what extent are contemporary relationships shaped and limited by the social and legal discourses surrounding them? Are people becoming freer to live the lives they desire or are they manipulated subtly into these very desires? Might the insights gained through exploration of intimate partnerships, as they are currently being lived and negotiated, transform how we perceive gender, sexuality and intimacy? Do we need to think differently about how we come to be who we are, and thereby rethink how we relate to ourselves and others? These are just some of the questions that this book addresses in considering the narratives of trans people and their partners and in proposing 'the ethics of intimacy', or the rethinking of intimate selves in order to increase freedom from domination and governance.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 1
title: A Brief History of Trans
pagenum: 7; label: Chapter2
title: Theorising Intimacy: A Foucauldian Approach
pagenum: 20; label: Chapter 3
title: Gender: Governance and Resistance
pagenum: 47; label: Chapter 4
title: Sexuality: Categorisations and Complexities
pagenum: 78; label: Chapter 5
title: The Negotiation of Intimacy
pagenum: 105; label: Chapter 6
title: Towards an Ethics of Intimacy
pagenum: 134; label: Appendix 1
title: Interviewee Profiles
pagenum: 144; label: Glossary of terms
pagenum: 147; label: Notes
pagenum: 148; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 152; label: Index
pagenum: 166