Boys of the lex: Transgenderism and rhetorics of materiality

GLQ

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 575-597

  Salamon, Gayle ^a  

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EID: 33749363054     PISSN: 10642684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10642684-2006-003     Document Type: Review

References (41)

1. This is, of course, an easy generalization; for an account of queer community formation as it is emerging elsewhere and otherwise, see Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York: New York University Press, 2005).
2. This can be read as both a citation and an inversion of Herb Ritts's famous photograph of a very feminine Cindy Crawford shaving a besuited k.d. lang.
3. Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (Boston: Beacon, 1998), 14.
4. Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: beyond Pink or Blue Ibid., 11.
5. James Green, "The Art and Nature of Gender," in Unseen Genders: Beyond the Binaries, ed. Felicity Haynes and Tarquam McKenna (New York: Peter Lang, 2001), 59-70.
6. Jay Presser, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 7. For an extended discussion of Prosser's important interventions in debates about social construction and transgenderism within a psychoanalytic context,
7. see Gayle Salamon, "The Bodily Ego and the Contested Domain of the Material," differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 15, no. 3 (2004): 95-122.
8. Jason Cromwell, Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), 25.
9. Jason Cromwell Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities Ibid., 42.
10. For a view of the phenomenological body as that which is singularly capable of resisting or defying both ideology and social construction, as well as a comparison between phenomenological and Foucauldian approaches to trans embodiment, see Henry Rubin, Self-Mode Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003).
11. Green, "Art and Nature of Gender," 62.
12. Cromwell, Transmen and FTMs, 43.
13. Kate Bornstein, paper presented at the University of California, Berkeley, April 27, 2000.
14. Green, "Art and Nature of Gender," 60.
15. Viviane K. Namaste, Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 9.
16. Cromwell, Transmen and FTMs, 43.
17. Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy, trans. David Carr (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970).
18. Foucault understands the body to be produced through several different modes of regulation and control. Punishment is one of these modes; sexuality is another. See Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage Books, 1995), 155;
19. and Foucault, The Use of Pleasure, vol. 2 of The History of Sexuality, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage Books, 1990).
20. Foucault, The History of Sexuality Ibid., 215.
21. For more on gender transgression and public restroums, see Sally Munt, "Orifices in Space: Making the Real Possible," in Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender (London: Cassell, 1997),
22. and Toilet Training: Law and Order in the Bathroom (2003), a film by Tara Mateik and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
23. Cromwell, Transmen and FTMs, 42.
24. Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: un the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (New York: Routledge, 1993), x.
25. Green, "Art and Nature of Gender," 60.
26. John Colapinto's presentation of the John/Joan case in As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), although not a critique of transsexuality per se, is a particularly conservative example of this trend. "Nature" made John a boy, and social constructionists tried to turn him into a girl; their failure, Colapinto contends, shows the indisputability of the nature of sexual difference.
27. Bernice Hausman, Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995), 27, 3.
28. Catherine Millot, Horsexe: Essays on Transsexuality (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1990), 141.
29. For autobiographical accounts of these negotiations, see Holly Devor, FTM: Female to Male Transsexuals in Society (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997).
30. Hausman, Changing Sex, xi.
31. Patricia Elliot and Katrina Roen, "Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment: Promising Queer Politics?" GLQ 4 (1998): 231-61.
32. Edmund Husserl, The Idea of Phenomenology (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1964), 5.
33. Edmund Husserl, Ideas I (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1964), 112.
34. Maurice Natanson, Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press), 58.
35. Husserl, Ideas 1, 17.
36. Husserl, Ideas Ibid., 110.
37. Natanson, Edmund Husserl, 26.
38. Natanson, Edmund Husserl Ibid., 71.
39. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (New York: Routledge, 1962), 79.
40. Husserl, Ideas 1, 150.
41. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (New York: Routledge, 1990), 123.