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The Injured World: Intersex and the Phenomenology of Feeling
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 20–41.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... Commentators and stakeholders diverge over definitions of good and bad treatment, but everyone wants to feel comfortable—whether with sexually ambiguous anatomies, infant genital surgery, the identity “intersex,” or the nomenclature of “disorders of sex development.” This multidisciplinary article critically...
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Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 137–159.
Published: 01 November 1989
... - 35 . 24 vols. 1953-74 . Freud Sigmund . “ Fetishism .” 1927 . Trans. Riviere Joan . The Standard Edition . Vol. 21 . 149 - 57 . Gelb J. , Malament M. , and LoVerme S. , “ Total Reconstruction of the Penis .” Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 24 ( 1959...
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The Supreme Sacrifice? TV, “TV,” and the Renée Richards Story
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 160–186.
Published: 01 November 1989
... by differentiating himself from the other types of cross-dressers. Typically, transvestites point out that they are strictly heterosexual, gay drag artists assert that they only wear women's clothes to further their acting careers, and transsexuals contend that they require sexual reassignment surgery (not sex...
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Antoni's Difference
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differences (1998) 10 (2): 129–170.
Published: 01 July 1998
... to this process? In the 1990s, the conditions shaping the experience of one's own material body-AIDS, identity politics, and the backlash against women's rights, but also the heightened awareness of eating disorders and the ubiquity of plastic surgery-made the strategic relocation of the problematic of gender...
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Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology
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differences (2001) 12 (1): 112–140.
Published: 01 May 2001
..., the
most drastic type of genital surgery performed on girls. Before I proceed, a
brief overview of the ritual in Africa, in general, and Sudan, in particular,
will help put this material in context.
Female Circumcision...
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Blindness as Metaphor
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differences (1999) 11 (2): 76–105.
Published: 01 September 1999
... as
just another word for what the dictionary defines as “a source of evil
and anguish” is to massively deny the reality of mutilating surgery,
chemotherapy, hair loss, pain, and hospice care, but also, and more
importantly, to freight an already...
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Female Peristalsis
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differences (2002) 13 (2): 57–89.
Published: 01 September 2002
... symptoms, then Lane resorted to
the radical surgery that he became famous for: “what he called the ‘short-
circuit operation,’ the bypassing of the large intestine from the point where
it’s joined by the small intestine (a common site...
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On the Critiques of the Concept of Sex: An Interview with Anne Fausto-Sterling
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 189–205.
Published: 01 May 2016
... 0.1 percent is a decent “guesstimate”). So a bimodal distribution of genitalia still exists even though it is not absolute. And, of course, this form of bimodality does not demand that nonconforming individuals be “fixed” by surgery. pt: A nearly bimodal distribution of genital forms does...
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“Stalked by Love”: Female Paranoia and the Stalker Novel
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 68–100.
Published: 01 July 1996
... a long white cotton gown, it ties at the back, but this is not a hospital. It's her hands she's looking for, d fferences 87 she knows she left them here somewhere, folded neatly in a drawer, like gloves" (116). The white hospital gown here is significant because surgery, in the novels of Atwood...
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“Everything I Wanted Not to Be”: The Specter of Africa in the Trans Travel Narrative
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 134–162.
Published: 01 May 2024
... it in England would have required her to divorce her wife (101). The lawlessness of the surgery ( Aizura 72 ) only strengthened Morris’s Orientalist conceptualization of her “pilgrimage” ( Morris 146 ), the account of which features a “fairy tale” (119), a “Wizard” (119), a “harem” (120), a “bazaar” (119...
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The Human Recycled: Insecurity in the Transnational Moment
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 194–223.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., whom Sneaky has been trying to recruit to
carry out the organ harvesting, agrees to perform Senay’s surgery. With
the cooperation of Juliette and Guo Yi, Okwe’s friend who is a porter in a
London morgue, the team drugs Sneaky...
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The Black (W)hole of Dysphoria
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 55–78.
Published: 01 September 2024
... nonconforming experience (2). In fact, gender dysphoria is the most recent diagnosis in a longer genealogy of available psychiatric diagnoses used to both pathologize trans and gender nonconforming people and grant access to medical care, including hormone therapy and gender-affirmation surgeries. This access...
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Migrant Sexualities, Queer Travelers: Iranian Bears and the Asylum of Translation in Turkey
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in the first round that had placed not only his but also Sahand’s case in jeopardy. In Professing Selves (2013), Najmabadi describes the fatwa-approved and often state-subsidized gender affirmation surgeries in Iran that, rather than reflecting a recognition of the existence of a multiplicity of genders...
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The Cosby Lament: Rape, Marital Alibis, and Black Iconicity
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 96–125.
Published: 01 September 2018
... produced when he was a child, and as an adult his performances simultaneously became more sexual and sexually ambiguous. While he famously grabbed his crotch throughout the 1980s and 1990s, his commitment to plastic surgery made him appear more androgynous, and he was rarely associated with lovers of any...
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Notes on Caitlyn, or Genre Trouble: On the Continued Usefulness of Camp as Queer Method
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 December 2017
... time now taken its own interest in the transgender body: having figured out how to sell “bodily flexibility [as] a commodity (in the case of cosmetic surgeries for example),” it is eager to celebrate transgender “as futurity itself, a kind of heroic fulfillment of the postmodern promises of gender...
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Aftereffects of the End of the World (“i ♥ ny”)
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 127–145.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., at the center or origin, in the heart of life. Bataille’s open
wound prefigures the specter of what Derrida calls the “unimaginable”
scene of touching one’s own heart, of an “operation of open-heart surgery
on oneself” (On Touching 267...
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Suturing the (W)holes: Erotic Freedom and Reflections on Black Female Sexuality
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 89–108.
Published: 01 September 2024
... on defining her own relationship to and experience of black womanhood costs her a ten-year relationship with a lover who is also her primary source of income. Ford never explicitly states why he disapproves of Elektra’s desire to undergo gender affirmation surgery, so all we see is the extent to which Ford’s...
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Visions of Anatomy: Exhibitions and Dense Bodies
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differences (2004) 15 (3): 123–156.
Published: 01 December 2004
... -62. Hanlon, Vincent. “Körperwelten/Body Worlds.” cmaj 169.1 (8 July 2003 ): 52 -53. Harcourt, Glenn. “Andreas Versalius and the Anatomy of Antique Sculpture.” Representations 17 ( 1987 ): 28 -61. Hirschauer, Stefan. “The Manufacture of Bodies in Surgery.” Social Studies of Science...
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Passing: Narcissism, Identity, and Difference
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 212–248.
Published: 01 July 1994
... relation to a specific context ofrevolutionary affirmation. (153) After transsexual surgery Richard Raskind is reborn as Renee Richards; after Stonewall the homosexual is gay. Sometimes such renaming involves reclaiming the old name and inflecting it differently, something that has happened with "queer...
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Statistical Panic
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differences (1999) 11 (2): 177–203.
Published: 01 September 1999
... Surgery.” Time 25 Jan. 1999 : 83 . Gunning, Tom. “An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator.” Art and Text 34 (Spring 1989 ): 31 –45. ———. “The Cinema of Attraction: Early Film,Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde.” Wide Angle 8.3–4 ( 1986 ): 63 –70. Hacking...
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