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      Recognizing Transsexuals
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      Recognizing Transsexuals

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      Recognizing Transsexuals book

      Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment

      Recognizing Transsexuals

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      Recognizing Transsexuals book

      Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment
      ByZowie Davy
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2011
      eBook Published 1 April 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603919
      Pages 204
      eBook ISBN 9781315603919
      Subjects Law, Social Sciences
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      Davy, Z. (2011). Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603919

      ABSTRACT

      Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics. Exploring the reasons for which transpeople desire to modify their bodies, it moves away from the focus on gender that characterizes much work on transpeople's embodiment, to investigate the concept of bodily aesthetics. Recent legislation allowing transsexuals to apply for gender recognition provides the context in which transpeople challenge the conventional understandings of what it means to be men and women. The book examines key approaches to recognizing transsexualism from within a variety of fields and considers transsexuals' bodies, body projects and embodiment in relation to personal, political and medico-legal fields. It explores the ways in which transpeople's bodily aesthetics affect social relations - such as sexual relations, acceptance by others and their families - whilst also considering contemporary political trans community organizations and their public representation of trans-bodies. Recognizing Transsexuals is the first sociological examination of how the bodies of transpeople are figured and reconfigured in socio, politico and medico-legal contexts and considers the impact of these shifts, and will be of interest to those with interests in embodiment, the sociology of law, sexology, medical sociology and gender theory.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |16 pages

      Introduction: Universal Shifts?

      chapter 1|28 pages

      Shifting the Medicolegal Constructions of Transsexuals’ Embodiment and Bodily Aesthetics

      chapter 2|24 pages

      Theorizing Trans Embodiment and Bodily Aesthetics

      chapter 3|28 pages

      Recognizing Transmen’s Body Projects

      chapter 4|28 pages

      Recognizing Transwomen’s Body Projects

      chapter 5|20 pages

      Recognizing Transsexuals’ Agency

      chapter 6|22 pages

      Framing Bodies in Trans-Community Organizations (T-CO)

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