My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage

Stryker, Susan

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“…For other gender liminal people, particularly in contexts where little detailed historical information about sexuality and gender remains decades after colonisers' attempts at assimilation and annihilation, it is not simply a case of reclaiming cultural values around gender liminality, but of creating gendered ways of being that satisfy aspects of both racial and (trans)gendered politics. Stryker (1994) outlines two strands of meaning associated with 'transgender'. The rst, which she describes as the original meaning, refers to people who cross genders without seeking sex reassignment surgery.…”

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“…In this paper, my working de nition of 'transsexual' is similar to Stryker's, but I question how well 'transgender' might operate as the expansive and culturally diverse term Stryker describes. Some transgender writings (e.g., Stone, 1991;Stryker, 1994;Prosser, 1998) offer inspiring readings of and challenges to medical constructions of transsexuality that prescribe possible modes of sexual embodiment, and that collaborate with legal institutions to selectively endorse certain gendered ways of being. These concerns about the medicalisation of transsexuality are held not only by transgenderists for whom gender may be highlighted relative to questions of racial politics.…”

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Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The risk of racial marginalisation

Roen¹

2001

Journal of Gender Studies

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Queer theories have received criticism for their ethnocentrism and their lack of careful attention to the lived realities of transsexual and transgendered people. A forum is being established through the publication of transgender theorists' work, where transgender theorists may rework 'queer', but how well does this reworking address concerns about ethnocentrism? For some 'transpeople' it is important to maintain traditional cultural values by resisting identi cation with (contemporary western) medical discourses on transsexuality. How might queer and transgender theorising inform and be informed by the discursive pathways being carved out by people for whom medicalised understandings of gender may be deemed culturally inappropriate? I illustrate the points made in this paper by drawing from interviews with gender liminal people who live in New Zealand and who belong to cultures indigenous to the SouthPaci c. Whilst wholeheartedly supporting the efforts of transgenderists to challenge medical constructions of transsexuality, one of the purposes of this paper is to critique the way perspectives of whiteness echo, largely unacknowledged, through transgender theorising and to thus inspire more critical thinking about the racialised aspects of transsexual bodies and transgendered ways of being.

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Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The risk of racial marginalisation

Roen¹

2001

Journal of Gender Studies

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“…The same can be said about the term "transgender." Transgender has become an overarching word to identify a range of identities and lives (Stryker, 1994). Its use carries a sociocultural specificity that erases the lives and experiences of those outside an explicit Anglo-American context (Namaste, 2005).…”

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Varieties of Transgender/Transsexual Lives and Their Relationship with Transphobia

Lombardi

2009

Journal of Homosexuality

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The conceptualization of gender variant populations within studies have consisted of imposed labels and a diversity of individual identities that preclude any attempt at examining the variations found among gender variant populations, while at the same time creating artificial distinctions between groups that may not actually exist. Data were collected from 90 transgender/transsexual people using confidential, self-administered questionnaires. Factors like age of transition, being out to others, and participant's race and class were associated with experiences of transphobic life events. Discrimination can have profound impact on transgender/transsexual people's lives, but different factors can influence one's experience of transphobia. Further studies are needed to examine how transphobia manifests, and how gender characteristics impact people's lives.

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“…8-9). Many theorists work from the position of invoking (or enforcing) a moral imperative in which transsexed persons must be "out," else they reify heteronormativity and sex/gender binaries (Butler, 1990(Butler, , 1997Feinberg, 1996;Heyes, 2003;MacKenzie, 1994;Stone, 1991;Stryker, 1994); this position ignores both the ubiquity and foundational solidity of sex/gender systems and structures, and the real and serious threat of physical and psychic violence enacted on those who do not abide by them.…”

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Whose Crazy Investment in Sex?

Mandlis

2011

Journal of Homosexuality

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By probing the processes of exclusion of transsexuals from the political sphere, this article offers contributions to social and political theory through an examination of the processes of exclusion from the category "human." This article considers how the erasure of investment in their own embodied sex constructs a platform from which to blame others for sex/gender variance, as well as to justify that blaming. Bringing together Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, and Nikolas Rose with transphobia, medicalization in psychiatry, law, and ethopolitics, this article questions whose investment in sexed embodiment counts and why that investment might be seen as "crazy."

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My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage

Cited by 532 publications

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Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The risk of racial marginalisation

Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The risk of racial marginalisation

Varieties of Transgender/Transsexual Lives and Their Relationship with Transphobia

Whose Crazy Investment in Sex?

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