Sex in transition
Subtitle: remaking gender and race in South Africa
By: Amanda Lock Swarr
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781438444062; 9781438444079
Subjects: Transsexuals; Intersexuality; Transsexualism; Gender identity; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: transition matters; title: Transdisciplinary situations; title: Historicizing gendered and political transition; title: Simone Heradien : July 24, 1997; title: Toward sex in transition; title: Prescribing gender and enforcing sex; title: Foundations of "transsexual"; title: Prescribing gender : South African medical conceptions of transsexuality; title: Enforcing sex : transsexuals and South African law; title: Politics and medical technology in transition; title: Transsexuals' categorical existence; title: Movements forward; title: Medical experimentation and the raced incongruence of gender; title: Medicine in apartheid and transitional South Africa; title: "Lots of things can go wrong" : medical experimentation on transsexuals; title: "Military mutilation : how the SADF forced gay solidiers to become women"; title: Lasting implications of raced gender incongruence; title: Redefining transition through necropolitics; title: Approaches to transition; title: Envisioning freedom; title: Beyond liminality and "states of injury"; title: Changing definitions and "fantasized objects"; title: Bureaucratic boundaries and forced liminality; title: The postcolony and transnational connections; title: Becoming a subject through confronting death; title: Stealth and reality; title: Inferences : "visions of the freedom not yet come"; title: Stabane, raced intersexuality, and same-sex relationships in Soweto; title: Contextualizing and racing intersexuality; title: Stabane in Soweto; title: Stabane and sexual interactions; title: Interpretations of Stabane in varied contexts; title: Implications of Stabane; title: Why this matters; title: Moffies, artists, and queens : race and the production of gay male drag in South Africa's transition; title: Conceptual frameworks of drag; title: Racing south african drag; title: Urban whiteness and drag; title: Femininity and township drag; title: "Performing" in south africa : extending performitivity with kinky politics; title: Conclusion: "extra-transsexual" meanings and transgender politics; title: Simone Heradien : September 15, 2007; title: Histories through transitions; title: Transitioning from the transition; title: "Extra-transsexual" transitions; title: Notes; title: Bibliography.