2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01043.x
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Undoing Theory: The “Transgender Question” and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory

Abstract: For nearly twenty years, Anglo-American feminist theory has posed its own epistemological questions by looking at the lives and bodies of transsexuals and transvestites. This paper examines the impact of such scholarship on improving the everyday lives of the people central to such feminist argumentation. Drawing on indigenous scholarship and activisms, I conclude with a consideration of some central principles necessary to engage in feminist research and theory—to involve marginal people in the production of … Show more

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“…within commodity culture where 'subversion' carries market value'' (Butler, 1999:xxi). She has been criticised for paying insufficient attention to the institutional social conditions that constrain and condition transpeople's lives, emphasising labour, legalities (Namaste, 2009;Irving, 2008), and race (Namaste, 2009;Roen, 2001). These critiques relate to the context of more industrialised countries of the North.…”
Section: Doing Gendermentioning
confidence: 93%
“…within commodity culture where 'subversion' carries market value'' (Butler, 1999:xxi). She has been criticised for paying insufficient attention to the institutional social conditions that constrain and condition transpeople's lives, emphasising labour, legalities (Namaste, 2009;Irving, 2008), and race (Namaste, 2009;Roen, 2001). These critiques relate to the context of more industrialised countries of the North.…”
Section: Doing Gendermentioning
confidence: 93%
“…Se trata -en consonancia con el ideal del empresario de sí-de forjarse a sí mismo, de forjar mejores, más libres y auténticas identidades sexogenéricas. Como han señalado algunas autoras, esta concepción de la identidad está vinculada a la sobrevaloración de la agencia individual en el proceso de construcción del sexo/género, al tiempo que disimula u oblitera el reconocimiento de formas de poder y relaciones de dominación vinculadas, por ejemplo, a condiciones económi-cas o geopolíticas particulares en la distribución de los cuerpos y las identidades (Namaste, 2009;Hallberstam, 2010;Puar, 2007). b) En segundo lugar, puede observarse que, a diferencia de la crítica al poder disciplinariocentrada en la cuestión de lo normativo y lo no normativo, lo normal y lo anormal, la identidad válida y la no-válida-, la racionalidad neoliberal no actúa tanto a través de la lógica identitaria sino a través de la lógica del éxito (Winnubst, 2012).…”
Section: Reflexiones Finales: Dilemas De La Resistencia Sexogenérica unclassified
“…This relationship has recently been reconsidered from starting points in feminist theory (Namaste 2009;Salamon 2010) and feminist politics (Heyes 2003). My argument builds on this work, on recent histories of transsexuality in the global metropole (Meyerowitz 2002;Stryker 2008), on the beginnings of a political economy of transsexuality (Irving 2008;Schilt and Wiswall 2008), and especially on realist accounts of transition and the life situations of transsexual women, from Australia (Perkins 1983), the United States (Griggs 1996(Griggs , 1998, Canada (Namaste 2000(Namaste , 2005(Namaste , 2011 and Hungary (Solymár and Takács 2007).…”
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confidence: 98%