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Gender Queer: Voices From Beyond The Sexual Binary
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 DescriptionPerhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three experts in gender studies and politics navigate around rigid, societally imposed concepts of two genders to discover and illuminate the limitless possibilities of identity. Thirty first-person accounts of gender construction, exploration, and questioning provide a groundwork for cultural discussion, political action, and even greater possibilities of autonomous gender choices. Noted scholar Joan Nestle is joined by internationally prominent gender warrior Riki Anne Wilchins and historian Clare Howell to provide a societal, cultural, and political exploration of gender identity. Table of contentsGenders on My Mind3A Continuous Nonverbal Communication11 Stories18 It's Your Gender, Stupid23 Queerer Bodies33 Changing the Subject47Deconstructing Trans55 Queens in Exile, The Forgotten Ones67 Vision86 Freaks90 Scars94 Scars96 A Conversation With J. T. LeRoy98 Dutch104 Vignettes108 Loving Outside Simple Lines113 World's Youngest120 Packing a Rod125 Not as if You Felt That Way ...127 A Life130 Liminal143 Do Your Ears?147 Do It on the Dotted Line156 Fading to Pink161 Passing Realities166 Who Knows What Evil Lurks?17 1My Woman Poppa175 A Femme's Diary179 I Walked Into the Oaks Club182 Transie190 Story of a Preadolescent Drag King194 Two Women202 Affronting Reason204 A Safe Trip Home220 Would I Dare? - There - Penis Envy223 Wanting Men228 Twenty Passings238 Courage From Necessity247 Whose Body Is This Anyway?250 Performing Translesbian253 Disorderly Fashion260 This Butch Body263 Be a Man267 The A Train273 Rules275 Transy House279 The Gender Cops Work Overtime284 Epilogue: Gender Rights Are Human Rights289 |
