Trans* : a quick and quirky account of gender variability /

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Author / Creator:Halberstam, Jack, 1961- author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:xiii, 164 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:American studies now: critical histories of the present
American studies now ; 3.
Subject:Transgender people -- Social conditions.
Gender identity -- Social aspects.
Gender identity -- Social aspects.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11375097
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ISBN:9780520292680
0520292685
9780520292697
0520292693
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:"In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for political activism and political recognition. What happened in the last few decades to prompt such an extensive rethinking of our understanding of gendered embodiment? How did a stigmatized identity become so central to US and European articulations of self? And how have people responded to the new definitions and understanding of sex and the gendered body? In Trans*, Jack Halberstam explores these recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores the possibilities of a nongendered, gender-optional, or gender-queer future"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Online version: Halberstam, Judith, 1961- Trans*. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520966109