Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category

by David Valentine

Book Overview

Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during the late 1990s, David Valentine conducted ethnographic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338696
• ISBN13: 9780822338697
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"