In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of
increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. This
interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue
about bodily transformation and its many potential meanings and
possibilities. Recent high-profile sex transitions, such as Bruce
Jenner's transformation into Caitlyn, have contributed to a
proliferation of public and private debates about the boundaries of
personal identity and the politics of gender. Sexual transition is
only one possible type of bodily transformation, and bodies that
change forms vex many binaries that underpin daily life such as
male/female, gay/straight, well/unhealthy, able/disabled,
beautiful/ugly, or adult/child. When transformations and
transitions involve trauma, illness, injury, surgery or death,
bodies can become culturally and socially illegible and enter the
realm of abjection or even horror. Health humanities, a recent
revision of medical humanities that includes patients and other
nonphysicians, provides an interdisciplinary lens through which to
read such bodily transformation and its representation in public
culture. The authors of the essays in the present volume situate
their work in this interdisciplinary space to enable productive
dialogue about bodily transformation and its meanings in artistic,
literary, visual, and health discourses. The essays in this volume
discuss non-normative bodies from eighteenth-century France to
present-day Iran and investigate narratives of cancer, aging,
anorexia, AIDS, intersexuality, transsexuality, viruses, bacteria,
and vaccinations. This collection will be of key interest to
faculty and students in women' studies/gender studies, cultural
studies, studies of visual and material culture, medical/health
humanities, disability studies, and rhetorics of science, health
and medicine, and will be a useful resource for scholars across
interdisciplinary fields of study.
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