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Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People

University of Chicago Press
Viviane Namaste
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Pages
320 pp.
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2000-12-15
Year
2000
Binding
Paperback
ISBN
9780226568102
Dimensions
22.91 × 15.19 × 2.01 cm
Written by
Viviane Namaste

Published in 2000, this landmark work was of the first serious studies of the lives of transgender men and women

Invisible Lives is the first scholarly study of transgendered people—cross-dressers, drag queens and transsexuals—and their everyday lives.

Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine or psychiatry as they are erased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. Namaste begins her work by analyzing two theoretical perspectives on transgendered people—queer theory and the social sciences—displaying how neither of these has adequately addressed the issues most relevant to sex change: everything from employment to health care to identity papers. Namaste then examines some of the rhetorical and semiotic inscriptions of transgendered figures in culture, including studies of early punk and glam rock subcultures, to illustrate how the effacement of transgendered people is organized in different cultural sites. Invisible Lives concludes with new research on some of the day-to-day concerns of transgendered people, offering case studies in violence, health care, gender identity clinics, and the law.

Title
Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People
Author
Viviane Namaste
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2000-12-15
Availability
In stock
Language
English
Pages
320 pp.
Binding
Paperback
ISBN-13
9780226568102
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