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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jay Prosser (Professor, University of Leeds)Publisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.383kg ISBN: 9780231109352ISBN 10: 0231109350 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 07 April 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: English Table of ContentsReviews"...""Prosser brilliantly proposes conceiving the transsexual as experiencing an Imaginary phantomization of the missing sexual organs, perhaps accompanied by an agnosic [sic] relation to the birth organs. Together, these conditions combine to motivate the transsexual to seek sex reassignment surgery as a healing of what is indeed a condition of gender dysphoria....Prosser's second substantial contribution, in ""Second Skins,"" is a critique of poststructuralist analyses of gender and transgender....Prosser's theorization of the role of narrative in transsexual self-fashioning, and his explication of a range of exemplary transsexual autobiographies are acute and illuminating.... ""Second Skins"" does difficult, important work in helping us to think transsexuality critically rather than judgmentally."" -- Jody Norton, Eastern Michigan University, ""Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter""" ... Prosser brilliantly proposes conceiving the transsexual as experiencing an Imaginary phantomization of the missing sexual organs, perhaps accompanied by an agnosic [sic] relation to the birth organs. Together, these conditions combine to motivate the transsexual to seek sex reassignment surgery as a healing of what is indeed a condition of gender dysphoria....Prosser's second substantial contribution, in Second Skins, is a critique of poststructuralist analyses of gender and transgender....Prosser's theorization of the role of narrative in transsexual self-fashioning, and his explication of a range of exemplary transsexual autobiographies are acute and illuminating.... Second Skins does difficult, important work in helping us to think transsexuality critically rather than judgmentally. -- Jody Norton, Eastern Michigan University, Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter Author InformationJay Prosser is a lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Leicester Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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