Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality

by Gayle Salamon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023114959X
• ISBN13: 9780231149594
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher