Sex Change, Social Change
Subtitle: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism
By: Viviane Namaste
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Women's Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780889614833
Subjects: Feminist theory; Transsexuals; Political activity; Identity; Transsexualism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; label: Chapter 1
title: Making the Lives of Transsexual People Visible / Addressing the Politics of Social Erasure; label: Chapter 2
title: Sex Change, Social Change / Reflections on Identity and Institutions; label: Chapter 3
title: Transsexuals Behind Bars; label: Chapter 4
title: Beyong Image Content / Examining Transsexuals’ Access to the Media; label: Chapter 5
title: Inclusive Pedagogy in the Women’s Studies Classroom / Teaching the Kimberly Nixon Case. Written in collaboration with Georgia Sitara; label: Chapter 6
title: Statement for Social Service Agencies and Transsexual/Transgender Organizations on Service Delivery to Transsexual and Transvestite Prostitutes. With Monica Forrester, Jamie-Lee Hamilton, Viviane Namaste, and Mirha-Soleil Ross; label: Chapter 7
title: Ten Things to Know about Trans People and HIV; label: Chapter 8
title: “Activists can’t go on forever acting in the abstract” / An Interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross; label: Chapter 9
title: Against Transgender Rights / Understanding the Imperialism of Contemporary Transgender Politics; label: Chapter 10
title: “Formal equality can actually be seen to function as a barrier to substantive equality” / An Interview with Lane Mandlis; label: Chapter 11
title: Critical Research and Activisms on Trans Issues in Latin America / An Interview with Vek Lewis; label: Chapter 12
title: “Tragic Misreadings” / Queer Theory’s Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity; label: Chapter 13
title: Undoing Theory / “The Transgender Question” and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory; title: Conclusion