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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 235–245.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Stefania Voli Abstract In the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the Italian transsexual movement began gaining visibility in the public sphere, also making use of the feminist political lexicon. This contamination emerged in the life stories of some trans pioneers, who consider feminism a fundamental...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 426–442.
Published: 01 November 2021
... transgender has eclipsed terms such as transsexual and transvestite . The article first examines the parallels between recent debates in the historiographies of gender and transgender as terms that can express the complex social representation of bodies negotiated by language. Second, it studies how much...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 516–531.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Patricio Simonetto; Johana Kunin Abstract Mariela Muñoz became the first transsexual widely socially recognized as a mother in Argentina. She emerged as a leading figure during her struggle to recover legal custody of three of her children, which had been previously annulled by a judge. Moreover...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (4): 590–604.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Alexander Eastwood Abstract This essay examines the burgeoning relationship between transgender studies and literary criticism by interrogating the terms of their commensurability. Recent debates within critical theory have at times detrimentally deployed marginalized figures, such as transsexuals...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 462–480.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Beans Velocci Abstract In the 1950s and early 1960s, Harry Benjamin and his colleague Elmer Belt corresponded at length about which transsexuals they would and would not approve for genital surgery. Benjamin defined transsexuality primarily through a desire for medical transition, but merely being...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (1): 179–184.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Leila Hudson Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran Najmabadi Afsaneh Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . vii + 450 pp . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Under guise of an ethnography of transsexuality in contemporary...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (2): 174–191.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to shape “she-male” pornography as a genre, and longtime straight cisgender hardcore performer Silvera moved to directing in the mid-1990s largely by locating transsexuality within an entirely heteronormative market context. Vexed as they are, these works occupy important places within the genealogy...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 417–425.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Emmett Harsin Drager; Lucas Platero Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 This special issue began with a simple provocation: “Where do we find the transvestite and the transsexual?” The ascendance and mainstreaming of transgender and its offshoots in its Anglo-American idiom...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 589–605.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Kadji Amin Abstract This article argues that Lili Elbe has been misrecognized as transsexual, just as Man into Woman (1933) has been misread as a transsexual autobiography. It proposes instead that we understand those who sought transition during the first decades of the twentieth century according...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 606–620.
Published: 01 November 2018
... medicalization to generate insight into black trans historicity not only in a negative sense but also in a move toward the undoing of the genealogy of transsexuality by privileging practices of black trans fugitivity as the reference point for the era “before” transsexuality. If medicine's modernity buries its...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 649–652.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Jon Mills Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian Approach . Gozlan Oren . New York : Routledge , 2015 . 104 pp. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Oren Gozlan is one of the most original thinkers in psychoanalysis today. In this very succinct...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 239–265.
Published: 01 May 2024
...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...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 524–544.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Kay Gabriel Abstract The author explores the thematics of transsexuality, untranslatability, and figuration in a recent volume of poetry by the Canadian poet and scholar Trish Salah, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 . Lyric Sexology confronts historical, aesthetic, and political questions that are best...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 357–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Alvaro Jarrín Abstract This article employs Bruno Latour's notion of “translation” to examine the ways by which anglophone discourses of transsexuality are deployed in the Brazilian context. The author argues that transsexuality is utilized by the medical class in ways that refuse to medicalize...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 451–471.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Oren Gozlan Abstract The title of the article, “Stalled in the Stall,” is a commentary on the present state of discourse surrounding transsexuality, particularly concerning access to the gendered bathroom. It points to an irony: media representations of transsexual and transgender identities...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 71–85.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Perry Zurn Abstract This article takes the twenty-five-year anniversary of C. Jacob Hale's “Suggested Rules for Non-transsexuals Writing about Transsexuals, Transsexuality, Transsexualism, and Trans___” (1997) to reflect on the nature of accountability to and within trans communities. Against...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (1): 123–135.
Published: 01 February 2015
... fit the outdated model of the “true transsexual” are allowed to (in fact expected to) undergo a physical transition. Once transitioned, they are expected to blend into society and present heteronormative, socially conforming gender roles. In Poland, only those people who have been diagnosed as so...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 285–293.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and transgender identities and the place of transgender issues in feminist and lesbian histories and cultures. It pays particular attention to the involvement of transsexual lesbian singer Beth Elliott at the 1973 Lesbian Conference organized by Córdova and others, which became a flashpoint in second-wave...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 632–638.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Trish Salah Abstract In concert with recent attempts to move beyond long-standing psychoanalytic equations of transsexuality with psychoses, this article offers some possible ways to consider “the Tiresian” as a site of both cissexual and transsexual fantasy and analytic fictions. It is interested...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 654–661.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of sublimation allows us to read a fantasy of fatality as evidence of transsexual inspiration in the materials gathered by Afsaneh Najmabadi's Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (2014). Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Jean Laplanche sublimation...