Burn the Binary! - Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans... by Riki Anne Wilchins

We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 15.83. It is argued that for this region and period transgenderism provides a valuable window on gender pluralism partly because the vicissitudes of transgendering are broadly indexical of the greater formalization and segregation of gender roles, the distancing of women from sources of power and prestige, the attenuated range of legitimacy concerning things erotic and sexual, and the constriction of pluralistic gender sensibilities as a whole. Buy Burn the Binary: Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans, Genderqueer and Nonbinary by Riki Wilchins online at Alibris. This intervention involves an interpretive framework conducive to the comparative historical investigation of culturally interlocked domains that are often separated or ignored in scholarly accounts, as occurs when gender is construed as a code word for women and is thus stripped of much of its significance before research has begun or when transgender practices or certain modalities of sexuality are examined in relative isolation from other salient components of the more encompassing sex/gender and culturalpolitical systems of which they are a part. Deployment of this concept in the context of an analysis that approaches transgenderism as an optic through which to view such pluralism entails an intervention against the grain of much writing on gender and sexuality.

This article develops the concept of gender pluralism to analyze historical and ethnographic material bearing on Southeast Asia since early modern times. Burn The Binary 19.99 Quantity Sold Out Burn the Binary Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans, Genderqueer and Nonbinary by Riki Wilchins An icon of transgender activism for three decades, Riki Wilchins is the author of four influential books on genderqueer, trans politics, and queer theory.

Burn the Binary! - Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans... by Riki Anne Wilchins