Mobile Subjects

Aizura Aren Z. Aizura

Description

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.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Gender studies

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 25 octobre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781478002642
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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à ô Çôéŝŝ Çààô--ûçàô àà àéŝ: Aûà, Aé Z., àûô. é: ôé ŝûéçŝ : àŝàôà ààéŝ ô  éé éàŝŝé / Aé Z. Aûà. éŝçô: ûà : ûé Uéŝ éŝŝ, 2018. |  Sééŝ: ééŝé ôééŝ éiéŝ: lccn 2018014917 () lccn 2018016344 (éôô) Isbn 9781478002642 (éôô) Isbn 9781478001218 (àçôé : à. àé) Isbn 9781478001560 (. : à. àé) Sûéçŝ: lcsh: àŝéé éôé—àé. |  Sé çàé. | éçà ôûŝ. Çàŝŝiçàô: lcc hq77.9 (éôô) | lcc hq77.9 .a39  2018 () | ddc 306.76/8—ç23 lc éçô àààé à ŝ://çç.ôç.ô/2018014917

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é ŝ ô éôé ô àé ééd é  é àô ô ŝ ôôk ŝàŝ é yéàŝ àd éé çôéŝ. î à uçky àd éŝéy àéu ô é à ô ué ôçà àd ééçuà çôuéŝ àçôŝŝ é d àd é ô é àçiç Ôçéà. tôéé é à à àç, uuy çôéŝàô  ç é à ŝ ô çé éàç ôé ô k dFééy à ôé kŝ, àd àŝô ô àŝàé ŝ k dFé- éy ô ôçà àçô ô à kdŝ. Ā é Uéŝy ô Méôué, à Mà, véà Màçké, Bé àé, àd Āudéy Yué ôéŝà y àduàé ôk àd éé ŝu- éà  ô ŝ ôjéç éééd. Bé ŝuéŝéd ààd àŝ à ôŝ- ŝé iédôk ŝé. à àd véà éàd çôuéŝŝ dàŝ, çàééd é ô éxàd é éŝ àd ŝçôé ô y ôk, àd àé é é é- ŝôuçéŝ ô id é ŝuŝàçé ô é ôjéç ô y ô éŝ. Ādéà Wàké àd éé Ā. Jàçkŝô éôéd é  à édé àd ŝéxu- ày ŝudéŝ. My éô àd ŝudéŝ à é Uéŝy ô Méôué— Kàŝukô suàuà, Bôy Béédçô, Màk édéô, Jôàà Wàŝ, àd Ājà Kàéŝé—éé  àççôçéŝ   àd çôàôàô. Çàôy D’Çu àu é ô ô éàç àd àŝ çôŝày ŝuôé àd éçôuà. rééé eçééà dd éôy