The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
Valentine argues that €œtransgender€ has been adopted so rapidly in the contemporary United States because it clarifies a model of gender and sexuality that has been gaining traction within feminism, psychiatry, and mainstream gay and lesbian politics since the 1970s: a paradigm in which gender and sexuality are distinct arenas of human experience. This distinction and the identity categories based on it erase the experiences of some gender-variant people€"particularly poor persons of color€"who conceive of gender and sexuality in other terms. While recognizing the important advances transgender has facilitated, Valentine argues that a broad vision of social justice must include, simultaneously, an attentiveness to the politics of language and a recognition of how social theoretical models and broader political economies are embedded in the day-to-day politics of identity.
Country | USA |
Brand | Duke University Press |
Manufacturer | Duke University Press |
Binding | Paperback |
ItemPartNumber | 9780822338697 |
ReleaseDate | 2007-08-30 |
UnitCount | 1 |
Format | Illustrated |
EANs | 9780822338697 |