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The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7270-7
Publication date:
2017
Book Chapter
Recognition and Refusal
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Published:August 2017
This chapter leaves the surgical clinic to examine contexts in which claims to the therapeutic efficacy and transformative capacity of facial feminization surgery are explicitly refused. While patients who seek FFS are driven by a desire to be recognized as women, neither forms of recognition nor the category “woman” are limited to individuals alone. Some critics see FFS as capitulating to demands that trans- women reproduce normative femininity and that FFS patients’ value for individual recognition as women undoes the political potential of making space for gender difference by making that difference visible. The state also refuses to recognize the...
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