Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender & Race in South Africa
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1438444060 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is highly original and very well researched. For a long time this narrative has been needed in a South (and southern) African context and it s great to see it actually done and done so well. Andrew Tucker, author of Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town" . The material here is insightful and ties together a number of concerns that previously have often only had brief mentions in discourses about sexuality in the region. It s high time that these debates, stories, and political struggles gained greater prominence. Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Prize in Transgender Studies from CLAGS at CUNY, 2013Ruth Benedict Prize Honorable Mention from the Association for Queer Anthropology, 2013This is an excellent book and probably one of the best I ve read on the topic. Swarr s work will hopefully go a long way to
Prescribing Gender and Enforcing Sex2. For a long time this narrative has been needed in a South (and southern) African context and it's great to see it actually done--and done so well. It's high time that these debates, stories, and political struggles gained greater prominence. Redefining Transition through Necropolitics4. Stabane, Raced Intersexuality and Same-Sex Relationships in Soweto5. She is the coeditor (with Richa Nagar) of Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, also published by SUNY Press.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transition Matters1. Performing Hierarchies and Kinky Politics: Drag in South Africa's TransitionConclusion: "Extra-Transsexual" Meanings and Transgender PoliticsNotesBibliographyIndex. Medical Experimentation and t
Excellent book on sex-reassignment surgery and South African politics This book is thoroughly researched and well written. You will be shocked by the atrocities that took place South Africa's in recent history and how American, Canadian, & European doctors participated in unethical medical experiments. Swarr elegantly articulates the relationship between sex, race, and politics in this groundbreaking text. As someone born in South Africa and raised in the USA I was not surprised by the correlation she found between the state policing the sex of disparately raced b. Not a fan Megan I did not find the style of Swarr's writing as "refreshing" as the other reviewer. It is the kind of writing that constantly includes, "I will tell you about" and "I have just told you about", which I personally find useless and frustrating. The information provided is interesting on its own, but the way it is presented makes me feel as though I should have read the works by the other authors Swarr cites to understand it fully. I think it actually would have been a better read if the information
She is the coeditor (with Richa Nagar) of Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, also published by SUNY Press.. Amanda Lock Swarr is Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle