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Author Namaste, Viviane K.

Title Invisible lives : the erasure of transsexual and transgendered people / Viviane K. Namaste.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.768 N174I    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 340 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.
Contents I. Theory. 1. "Tragic Misreadings": Queer Theory's Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity. 2. Theory Trouble: Social Scientific Research and Transgendered People. 3. Beyond Textualist and Objectivist Theory: Toward a Reflexive Poststructuralist Sociology -- II. Culture. 4. "A Gang of Trannies": Gendered Discourse and Punk Culture. 5. Gendered Nationalisms and Nationalized Genders: The Use of Metaphor in Mass Culture and U.S. Transsexual Activism -- III. Research. 6. Genderbashing: Sexuality, Gender, and the Regulation of Public Space. 7. Access Denied: The Experiences of Transsexuals and Transgendered People with Health Care and Social Services in Toronto, Ontario. 8. Clinical Research or Community Health?: Transsexual Perceptions of Gender Identity Clinics. 9. The Administration of Erasure: The Bureaucracy of Legal Sex, a Vicious Circle of Administration, and HIV/AIDS in Quebec.
Summary This book examines transgendered people in their everyday lives and how they are erased in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. Additionally, difficulties in employment, health care, and identity papers are examined.
Processing Action Self-Renewing 2017 UoY
Subject Transsexuals -- Canada.
Transgender people -- Canada.
Marginality, Social -- Canada.
Marginality, Social. (OCoLC)fst01009156
Transgender people. (OCoLC)fst01765239
Transsexuals. (OCoLC)fst01155432
Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
Transseksualiteit.
Travestieten.
Marginaliteit.
Transgender Persons -- Canada.
Transsexualism -- Canada.
ISBN 0226568091 (alk. paper)
9780226568096 (alk. paper)
0226568105 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226568102 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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