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Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a
dynamic field of interdisciplinary scholarship. First collected in
Routledge's own The Transgender Studies Reader in 2006, the field
has moved on, rapidly expanding in many directions. The Transgender
Studies Reader 2 gathers these disparate strands of scholarship,
and collects them into a format that makes sense for teaching and
research. Complimenting the first volume, rather than competing
with it, the second volume introduces another 50 articles, with
explanatory head notes for each essay, and bibliographic
suggestions for further reading. Buy the two volumes together at a
discount in this bundle, and enjoy both the historic and modern
takes on this rapidly growing, vibrant field.
The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine
Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in
1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams
about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and
the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender
narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to
the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and
documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people
obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the
uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional
health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit
transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a
form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race,
gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and
how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create
the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white, global
citizen. In so doing, he shows how understandings of travel and
mobility depend on the historical architectures of colonialism and
contemporary patterns of global consumption and labor.
The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine
Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in
1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams
about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and
the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender
narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to
the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and
documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people
obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the
uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional
health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit
transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a
form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race,
gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and
how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create
the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white, global
citizen. In so doing, he shows how understandings of travel and
mobility depend on the historical architectures of colonialism and
contemporary patterns of global consumption and labor.
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