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Mobile Subjects
Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
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Aren Z. Aizura
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives about traveling for gender reassignment from 1952 to the present, showing how transgender fantasies about reinvention and mobility are racialized as white and often rely on violent colonial global divisions.
Author / Editor information
Aren Z. Aizura is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader 2.
Reviews
"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals."
-- N. B. Rosenthal Choice
"Destabilizing formulaic transnational mobility stories that rely on an epic departure-and-return script, Aizura offers a powerful challenge to consider the wild movements of minor mobilities and the potentiality of staying in place."
-- Emmanuel David TSQ
"[This] book evokes a pondering of how Transgender Studies as a field will move itself forward. Aizura’s own urging to give a voice to transgender people who straddle the margins of privileged trans-normativity reiterates the field’s mission of breaking new paths for inclusivity, intersectionality, and independence from myopic visions of what being transgender means today."
-- Muriel Vernon Medical Anthropology Quarterly
"Mobile Subjects is intentional and thoughtful in its application of interdisciplinary research. . . . Through his multi-method and intersectional approach, Aizura brings forth a conversation that simultaneously accounts for the impact of gender, race, and class on seeking out and obtaining gender reassignment technologies, as well as the varying policies, practices, and vernacular inherent to transnational study."
-- Jacob Barry Journal of Critical Race Inquiry
“Mobile Subjects provides new insights relevant and challenging for those interested in a range of topics and methodologies. This is a required read for our times...."
-- Lars Olav Aaberg newbooks.asia
“... [S]cholars in a wide range of fields will find this book useful.... Mobile Subjects exemplifies what can be done when trans studies is integrated with science, technology, and society studies, and more ‘traditional’ gender studies theories, such as queer theory, transnational feminisms, and Marxist theory.”
-- K.S. Shindle Catalyst
“Mobile Subjects is a complex, wide-ranging, and powerfully provocative exploration of how gender reassignment has been and continues to be shaped by physical and metaphorical tropes of movement....”
-- Isaac Gagné American Ethnologist
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 25, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9781478002642
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
296
Other:
5 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9781478002642
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
