Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory: by Patricia Elliot

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By Patricia Elliot

Transgender stories is a heterogeneous web site of discussion that's marked via tensions, border wars, and rifts either in the box and between feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domain names of women’s reviews, sexuality, gender and transgender stories, Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist concept offers a severe research of key texts and theories, accomplishing a discussion with popular theorists of transgendered id, embodiment and sexual politics, and intervening in quite a few elements of a conceptually and politically tough terrain. A principal crisis is the query of even if the theories and practices had to foster and safe the lives of transsexuals and transgendered people should be promoted or undermined - a priority that increases broader social, political, and moral questions surrounding assumptions approximately gender, sexuality, and sexual distinction; perceptions of transgendered embodiments and identities; and conceptions of divergent wishes, ambitions and visions.

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