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Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias (Paperback)
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Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities
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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.
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