Second Skins - The Body Narratives of Transsexuality

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Summary

Examining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand-in mind and body-to cross the boundary of sex, Prosser argues that sex change is, at best, a narrative-thus transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors.

Product details

• Authors: Jay Prosser, Jay (Professor Prosser, Prosser Jay
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.1998
• EAN: 9780231109345
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10934-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Gender and Culture Series; Gender and Culture (Hardcover); Gender and Culture Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Cultural Studies, Biography: general, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, Gender Studies: Transsexuals & Hermaphroditism