We believe we know our bodies intimately--that their material
reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an
epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring
and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however,
Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering questions of
transgendered embodiment via phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty),
psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud and Paul Ferdinand Schilder), and
queer theory, Salamon advances an alternative theory of normative
and non-normative gender, proving the value and vitality of trans
experience for thinking about embodiment.
Salamon suggests that the difference between transgendered and
normatively gendered bodies is not, in the end, material. Rather,
she argues that the production of gender itself relies on a
disjunction between the "felt sense" of the body and an
understanding of the body's corporeal contours, and that this
process need not be viewed as pathological in nature. Examining the
relationship between material and phantasmatic accounts of bodily
being, Salamon emphasizes the productive tensions that make the
body both present and absent in our consciousness and work to
confirm and unsettle gendered certainties. She questions
traditional theories that explain how the body comes to be--and
comes to be made one's own--and she offers a new framework for
thinking about what "counts" as a body. The result is a
groundbreaking investigation into the phenomenological life of
gender.
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