Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment

by Aren Z Aizura and Aren Z. Aizura

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001569
• ISBN13: 9781478001560
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary