The Power of Stealth: (In)Visible Sites of Female-to-Male Transsexual Resistance

Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 164-179

  Edelman, Elijah Adiv ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aaron Devor, exploring FTM identity; Conceptualizing trans and stealth experience, requiring power structures; Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association's (HBIGDA); Heterosexuality, in a binary gender system; Power of stealth (in)visible sites of female to male transsexual resistance; Public anthropology, shift of knowledge production from academics to communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889477779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444310689.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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