Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias

Caterina Nirta (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-22289-2 (ISBN)

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This book looks at how the transgender individual marks their own position inside and outside the boundaries of a category which often offers institutionalised and manufactured images of transgender identity and communities.

Although over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of gender studies, transgender has largely remained institutionalised as an ‘umbrella term’ that encapsulates all forms of gender understandings differing from what are thought to be gender norms. In both theoretical and medical literature, trans identity has been framed within a paradigm of awkwardness or discomfort, self-dislike or dysfunctional mental health.

Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias is a multidisciplinary book that draws primarily from Deleuze and post-structuralism in order to reformulate the concept of utopia and ground it in the materiality of the present. Through a radically new conceptualisation of the time and space of utopia, it analyses empirical findings from trans video diaries on the Internet belonging to transgender individuals. In doing so, this volume offers new insights into the everyday challenges faced by these subjectivities, with case studies focusing on: the legal/social impact of the UK’s Gender Recognition Act 2004, boundaries of public and private as evidenced within public toilets, and the narrative of the ‘wrong body’.

Contextualising and applying Deleuzian concepts such as ‘difference’ and ‘marginal’ to the context of the research, Nirta helps the reader to understand trans as ‘unity’ rather than as a ‘mind-body mismatch’. Contributing to the reading and understanding of trans lived experience, this book shall be of interest to postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Transgender Studies, Critical Studies, Sociology of Gender and Philosophy of Time.

Caterina Nirta is senior lecturer in social sciences at the University of Roehampton, UK

Introduction

Chapter 1 - How Might It Be?

1.1 Why Deleuze?

1.2 Why Video Diaries?

1.3 Why This Research?

Chapter 2 - Actualised Utopias

2.1 Utopia of the ‘Not-Yet’

2.2 No Future, No Present

2.3 Temporal Immanence

2.4 Future in the Present

2.5 Sustainable Utopian Ethics

Chapter 3 – Logics of Recognition

3.1 Gender Recognition Act 2004

3.2 Shift Gender/Sex

3.3 Until Death Do Us Part

3.4 Dialectics of Recognition

3.5 Limits of Recognition

3.6 Intersectionality

3.7 Will to Be Imperceptible

The Diary Sessions, I - On Gender Recognition

Chapter 4 – Spatial Dystopia. Or a Case Against Public Toilets

4.1 The Monolingualism of Public Toilets

4.2 The Making of Public Toilets

4.3 The Un-Making of Public Toilets

4.4 An Ethics for Public Toilets

The Diary Sessions, II – On Public Toilets

Chapter 5 – Marginal Bodies

5.1 The Monstrous Body

5.2 The othered Body

5.3 Different Bodies

5.4 Perverse Bodies

5.5 Nomadic Bodies

The Diary Sessions, III - On Wrong Bodies

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	16.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-138-22289-5 / 1138222895
ISBN-13	978-1-138-22289-2 / 9781138222892
Zustand	Neuware