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...Iain Morland Abstract This essay critiques the practice of childhood genital surgery for intersex/disorders of sex development. The essay draws on the sociology of perception and poststructuralist theory (in particular Jacques Lacan) to analyze the subject position offered by surgery as a function...

... analysis of these videos and their methods of addressing the viewer, the author identifies a practice within microporn networks that she calls trans* porno remix (TPR). Through digital editing techniques, TPR creates haptic spaces for the viewer to imagine themselves as trans* subjects. Through modes...

... : Peter Lang , 2018 . 203 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Interest in trans subjects in higher education is not new, with scholarship on trans students in particular now spanning almost three decades. What is new is the surge in trans authorship of this scholarship...

... and remarginalization within the coalition of trans activists and feminists. By analyzing how grassroots trans/feminists negotiate such problems, this article argues that trans/feminist praxis transgresses subjective, intellectual, and political borders and calls for more critical feminist engagements in Chinese trans...

...Quincy Meyers Abstract This article analyzes the history of trans identities and intersex subjectivities to understand intersex and trans intercommunity relations and identify coalitional strategies. Citing Black and postcolonial studies scholars such as C. Riley Snorton and Zine Magubane...

... the importance of sex-reassignment surgery as a signifier of authentic gender variance, while at the same time asserting travesti subjectivity as unique and distinct from both transsexuality and transgender identity. The author concludes that the academic community needs to develop new methods of analysis...

... without loss” (van der Weele 2017) in Transparent , this article considers how transitions can enable a “working through” of unacknowledged familial trauma passed down between and within generations. Maura is, in my reading, the subject doing the difficult work of carrying, but also laying to rest...

... therefore investigates the taxonomical movement away from the transgender subject as perverse toward the current diagnosis of gender dysphoria, which instead consolidates the transgender subject as distressed and suffering. Through an unconventional use of psychoanalytic theories of perversion, I argue...

..., the author claims that “intimate revolt,” as conceived in Kristeva's later writings, is what mobilizes trans and queer subjectivities in a movement of endless regeneration. The article begins with an overview of the theme of revolt in Kristeva's psychoanalytic thought and stresses three interrelated...

...Dina Al-Kassim Abstract Casting off from the deployment of sexuality under modern biopolitics, the emergent subjectivities knitted between same-sex players and transexuals in Iran reveal networks of affiliation and fantasy best disclosed by psychoanalytic listening. Jean Laplanche's reworking...

...J. Horncastle Abstract This article approaches transgender surgery from the “side door” and explores the consequences of happenstance surgery for the gender-nonnormative subject. In this happenstance context, the trans chest as a concept is problematic on two counts—being popularly understood only...

... of two transgender women, which are condensed from a series of interviews in clinical settings as well as in their homes. However, I do not claim that they are representative, nor do I mean to draw from them a coherent or totalizing narrative of Brazilian gender or transgender subjectivity. Rather, I...

... 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...

...Shraddha Chatterjee Abstract A larger game is at play with respect to the field of transgender subjectivities in India that goes beyond gender or sexuality, and enters the arena of contested cultures and historical erasures. It can be hypothesized that a contemporary transgender subject in India...

...Chelsea Thompto Abstract Through an examination of how the art world engages with transness, the piece begins with an exploration of why we need an understanding of trans subjectivity that is not beholden to or subsumed by the art world's overriding attention and interest in queer subjectivities...

...Shae (Shaeleya) D. Miller Abstract Because we live in a cisnormative society, trans inclusion is often filtered through cis subjectivities, allowing real or potential allies to “make sense” of transness without decentering their own experiences. This article investigates these dynamics through...

... and calls into question the construction of normative human subjects via the semantic claim to the word monster , yet evades recourse to global North theories of trans* subjectivity. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 sudaca Susy Shock poetics...

...Eric Llaveria Caselles Abstract This article proposes to engage with the etiological question haunting the transsexual subject as a sociogenic project of identifying and analyzing relevant problematizations of transsexuality. The article elaborates on the social contexts of the biomedical...

... 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...