Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies introduces new thinking on non-conforming gender representation, addressing transsexuality as a subjective experience that highlights universal dilemmas related to how we conceive identity. It explores universal questions related to gender: its objects, objections, and obstacles. This book seeks to disassemble prejudicial orientations to the challenges and the everydayness of transsexuality and build new understanding and responses to issues including medical biases, the problem of authenticity, and the agency of the child.
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- Examination of three central pressures: transformation of a medical model, the social experience of becoming transgender, and the question of self-representation through popular culture.
- Reframing of contemporary dilemmas such as authenticity, pathology, normativity, creativity, and the unpredictability of sexuality.
- Consideration of sociocultural, theoretical, therapeutic, and legal approaches to transsexuality.
- Exploration of how political and cultural change affects self and other representations of the transsexual person.
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The chapters address the struggle with limits of knowledge, a demand for intelligibility, and desire for certainty. Contributors reveal the inherent instability and fluidity of transsexuality both as a concept and as an experience. The book asks how the subject metabolizes anxieties related to these transformations and facilitations and how they can respond in contexts of hostility and prohibition. Offering a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration, this book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychologists, and scholars of gender studies and cultural studies.
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