Transitional matters: The body narratives of transsexual autobiography.

Title: Transitional matters: The body narratives of transsexual autobiography.
Identifier: AAI9707144
identifier: 9707144
Creator: Prosser, Jay Damon.
Contributor: Adviser: Nancy K. Miller
Date: 1996
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Literature, American | Language, Rhetoric and Composition | American Studies | Sociology, Theory and Methods
Abstract: Centering on the relations between transsexual bodies and autobiographical narratives, this dissertation argues that transsexual subjectivity depends on self-narration. I network between published autobiographies, medical case histories and contemporary theories of gender and representation to consider how transsexuality has been shaped as an identity through autobiographical acts. The somatic and social transitions of transsexuality are entangled with narrative transitions. Drawing on feminist, gender and queer theory, this project also considers what transsexual trajectories can contribute to their current debates about sex, gender, the body, narrative and construction.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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