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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 160–171.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of the impersonal gaze that precedes subjectivity. Even though early surgery appears to be justified on the basis that children have an innate need to see sexual difference in order to identify as female or male, this argument in favor of surgery collapses when we recognize that sexual difference is not a thing...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 472–496.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in the work of Shanna Carlson, Patricia Gherovici, and Gayle Salamon, this essay nonetheless argues that Žižek's work offers—despite itself—a way of traversing the fantasy of sexual difference that structures Lacanian accounts of gender. By going beyond the assumption that the antinomy that structures...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 209–226.
Published: 01 May 2015
... in the seventeenth century was contingent on a highly structured, essentialist conception of sexual difference. On the one hand, the development of the human was explained through a break with the animal in hypotheses about the shift from animal sociality to human civilization; but, on the other, sociobiological...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (3): 458–480.
Published: 01 August 2024
... their arguments around three related psychoanalytic concerns: demand, desire, and the real of sexual difference. In showing how Žižek and Miller orient their arguments around these axes, the author shows that they misread trans subjects solely as subjects of demand, as those who refuse to cope with, and instead...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 497–517.
Published: 01 November 2017
... from trans people and circumcised men who attempt foreskin restoration. The varying ways in which subjects strive to symbolize an imaginary encounter with lack are foregrounded, and anatomically determinist theories of sexual difference are challenged. Anatomy is shown to play a fundamental...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 662–667.
Published: 01 November 2017
... difference. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 transgender sexual difference psychoanalysis On March 11 and 12, 2017, the SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, a psychoanalytic training institute based in the United Kingdom, held a conference at the Freud Museum in London entitled...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 227–243.
Published: 01 May 2015
... significant difference. Second, rather than see the self as a person or body that possesses sexuality as an individuating predicate, we might think of a milieu of individuating possibilities from which relatively differentiated selves emerge. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 animality...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 287–317.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to the rise of the service sector and the increasing importance of care and affective labor” ( Endnotes 2013). At the same time, this characterization of the phenomenon as feminization only makes sense due to this shift being stabilized, naturalized, and justified through its inscription of sexual difference...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 394–403.
Published: 01 August 2018
... by Duke University Press 2018 dream fantasy cinema psychoanalysis sexual difference In the ethereal dream landscape that constitutes Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendor (2015), a moment of tenderness shared between the film's principal characters hinges on the heuristics...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 448–461.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the Western linguistic map, it is instructive to look at some core trans-related terms in Finnish and English. In particular, the different ways of dividing the conceptual space of gender/sex/sexuality make a difference in fighting the sexualization of trans people. To some extent it also affects the degree...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Perspective on Sexual Difference . New York : Routledge . Grant Jaime M. , Mottet Lisa A. , Tanis Justin , Harrison Jack , Herman Jody L. , and Keisling Mara . 2011 . Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Study . Washington...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (3-4): 350–368.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of social experience and varieties of scientific classification. This essay considers four women differently subjected to sexological scrutiny on the basis of sex, and tracks how that sexual basis articulates with gender, race, and sexuality to map the floorplan of institutionalizing sexual knowledge. We...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 332–344.
Published: 01 August 2020
... a comprehensive contribution to gender theory, its brevity and wit seem sure to succeed in causing a stir. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Andrea Long Chu sexual difference comedy provocation feminization SCUM Andrea Long Chu's debut monograph, Females ( 2019a...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 451–471.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to the clinic help us understand our mindless state in the bathroom? And, in turn, can the bathroom, as a primal scene of natality, be fantasized as a thought experiment with which to think about the clinic? Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 transsexualty primal scene sexual difference...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 431–450.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to interrogate the investments at work in two competing fantasies operating here: first, that sexual difference and bodily inhabitation are simultaneously inconsequential and hypervulnerable during childhood; and, second, that children occupy a space prior to bodily (and specifically genital) awareness. What do...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 326–357.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of core psychoanalytic ideas. Moreover, they have challenged understandings of transsexuals as overinvested in normative gender binaries (and thus dupes of gender) and as unable to accept the aporias of sexual difference. Jay Prosser ( 1998a ) and Gayle Salamon ( 2004 ) were among the first trans* studies...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 165–168.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to suffering that goes beyond a defensive illusion of unity that would deny lack, subjectivity, and desire ( Gozlan 2011 : 48). Differing from the symptomatic idealization of the other sex that represses sexual difference, the sinthome offers a way to understand transsexual surgery as “a means to claim one's...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 320–337.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Aniruddha Dutta; Raina Roy Abstract This essay is a set of reflections arising out of prolonged conversations in which we compared notes on our respective experiences as activist (Raina) and ethnographer (Aniruddha) working among, and to different extents belonging to, gender/sexually marginalized...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 February 2015
... are gender nonconforming. This article discusses the development of new survey data measuring the identity, behavioral, and attraction dimensions of gender and sexuality across different terms that are in use in Nepal. Initial findings show that seven distinct groups of respondents can be described...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (2): 195–208.
Published: 01 May 2015
... ( 2008 : 12) asked us to consider “what happens to the fraternity of brothers when an animal enters the scene.” In relating to the alterity of animals, Derrida begins to answer his own question by implicating sexual difference: “Animals are welcomed … on the threshold of sexual difference. More precisely...
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