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Sex in transition remaking gender and race in South Africa
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Title
Sex in transition [electronic resource] : remaking gender and race in South Africa / Amanda Lock Swarr.
ISBN
9781438444086
9781438444062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781438444079 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (304 p.)
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Global Cultural Studies Collection.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 06, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: transition matters
Transdisciplinary situations
Historicizing gendered and political transition
Simone Heradien : July 24, 1997
Toward sex in transition
Prescribing gender and enforcing sex
Foundations of "transsexual"
Prescribing gender : South African medical conceptions of transsexuality
Enforcing sex : transsexuals and South African law
Politics and medical technology in transition
Transsexuals' categorical existence
Movements forward
Medical experimentation and the raced incongruence of gender
Medicine in apartheid and transitional South Africa
"Lots of things can go wrong" : medical experimentation on transsexuals
"Military mutilation : how the SADF forced gay solidiers to become women"
Lasting implications of raced gender incongruence
Redefining transition through necropolitics
Approaches to transition
Envisioning freedom
Beyond liminality and "states of injury"
Changing definitions and "fantasized objects"
Bureaucratic boundaries and forced liminality
The postcolony and transnational connections
Becoming a subject through confronting death
Stealth and reality
Inferences : "visions of the freedom not yet come"
Stabane, raced intersexuality, and same-sex relationships in Soweto
Contextualizing and racing intersexuality
Stabane in Soweto
Stabane and sexual interactions
Interpretations of Stabane in varied contexts
Implications of Stabane
Why this matters
Moffies, artists, and queens : race and the production of gay male drag in South Africa's transition
Conceptual frameworks of drag
Racing south african drag
Urban whiteness and drag
Femininity and township drag
"Performing" in south africa : extending performitivity with kinky politics
Conclusion: "extra-transsexual" meanings and transgender politics
Simone Heradien : September 15, 2007
Histories through transitions
Transitioning from the transition
"Extra-transsexual" transitions
Notes
Bibliography.
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