As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life
to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the
Western origins of the field have tended to limit its
cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for
doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central
importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia
challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes
room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.
Against the backdrop of the Sinophone Pacific, Chiang argues that
the concept of transgender identity must be rethought beyond a
purely Western frame. At the same time, he challenges
China-centrism in the study of East Asian gender and sexual
configurations. Chiang brings Sinophone studies to bear on trans
theory to deconstruct the ways in which sexual normativity and
Chinese imperialism have been produced through one another.
Grounded in an eclectic range of sources—from the archives of
sexology to press reports of intersexuality, films about
castration, and records of social activism—this book reorients
anti-transphobic inquiry at the crossroads of area studies, medical
humanities, and queer theory. Timely and provocative, Transtopia in
the Sinophone Pacific highlights the urgency of interdisciplinary
knowledge in debates over the promise and future of human
diversity.
General
Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2021 |
Firstpublished: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Howard Chiang
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
376 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-19097-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-231-19097-2 |
Barcode: |
9780231190978 |
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