Second Skins
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231109350 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Second Skins" does difficult, important work in helping us to think transsexuality critically rather than judgmentally." -- Jody Norton, Eastern Michigan University, "Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter" . "Prosser brilliantly proposes conceiving the transsexual as experiencing an Imaginary phantomization of the missing sexual organs, perhaps accompanied by an agnosic sic relation to the birth organs. Together, these conditions combine to motivate the transsexual to seek sex reassignment surgery as a healing of what is indeed a condition of gender dysphoria.Prosser's second substantial contribution, in "Second Skins," is a critique of poststructuralist ana
Examining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand -- in mind and body -- to cross the boundary of sex, Prosser argues that sex change is, at best, a narrative -- thus transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors.
Jay Prosser is a lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Leicester
An uncommonly perceptive critique La Becket Jay Prosser's book (in addition to being uniquely insightful) occupies a unique place in the growing (trans)gender studies canon: it is the only one that engages seriously with the specificity of transsexual (as distinct from transgender) identification, and critically examines the points of critical divergence between the two (or the several, if you prefer). His readings of the Well of Loneliness and Stone Butch Blues, as well as the appended consideration of transsexual photogr. Elliott said On the contrary to a previous commenter. I am a trans person, not terribly educated in the formal sense, and I found it very accessible and innovative.. TRANSSEXUAL SELF-UNDERSTANDING Jay ProsserSecond Skins:The Body Narratives of Transsexuality(New York: Columbia University Press, 1998) 270 pages(ISBN: 0-231-1093TRANSSEXUAL SELF-UNDERSTANDING James L. Park Jay ProsserSecond Skins:The Body Narratives of Transsexuality(New York: Columbia University Press, 1998) 270 pages(ISBN: 0-231-10934-2; hardcover)(ISBN: 0-231-10935-0; paperback)(Library of Congress call number: HQ77.9.P76 1998) Jay Prosser was born a female but as an adult lives as a man.The books discussed here were mostly written by radical feminists.Besides advocating the same opportunities for women as granted to men,Prosser also advocates the freedom to change sex—or . -2; hardcover)(ISBN: 0-231-10935-0; paperback)(Library of Congress call number: HQ77.9.P76 1998) Jay Prosser was born a female but as an adult lives as a man.The books discussed here were mostly written by radical feminists.Besides advocating the same opportunities for women as granted to men,Prosser also advocates the freedom to change sex—or