Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the OthersExplore the common ground—and the important differences—between bisexuality and transgenderism! This book, guaranteed to provoke debate and discussion of sexuality and gender, is the first devoted exclusively to the relationship between transgenderism and bisexuality. Combining the work of scholars and activists, professional writers and lay people, Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others proesents ideas, thoughts, feelings, and insights from a variety of contributors who are committed to understanding—and deepening our understanding of—gender and sexuality. You'll find scholarly essays, narratives, poetry, and a revealing interview with four male-to-female transsexuals, two of whom are married to women who also participate in the discussion. In addition, the book includes insightful chapters by well-known advocates of transgenderism, including Jamison “James” Green, Coralee Drechsler, and Matthew Kailey. The editors of Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others make the provocative but crucial claim that the larger queer community looks at “B” and “T” lives as mere “add-ons” to “L” and “G.” In this book they focus attention on bisexuality and transgenderism—moving the “margins” to center stage and exploring how sexuality, gender, desire, and intimacy are constructed and circulate in our society. The book's inclusion of voices and scholarship from Eastern cultures challenges our understanding of sexuality and gender constructions all the more, giving this collection a global scope. Here is a sample of what Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others examines:
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I'm curious, what solid proof do you have to support your position that Angelina Jolie's character "Sway" in Gone in 60 Seconds is actually bisexual? She is a beautiful, feminine-butch mechanic, but there is no other indication to say that she is bisexual. That is speculation based on her profession. I am a model and a mechanic as well, obviously meaning I am a well-kept female that isn't afraid to work on cars either, but I am not a bisexual female. I too enjoy knives, video games, and other activities that men are primarily known for, but I am in no way bisexual. I have been happily married (to a man) for many years, and am rather offended by your inference about "Sway", purely based on the stereotype that a female must be bisexual or a lesbian if she engages in any activity that is men-ruled. Now I have not fully read your book, and the rest doesn't concern me, I am just defending that one section that refers to female mechanics. If anything, I would like to see some solid evidence. Did you talk with the directors and have them tell your first hand that "Sway" is indeed bisexual? Have you interviewed more female beautiful, feminine mechanics and have them tell you ALL girls that work on cars bat for the other team? I would love to hear all of this. Otherwise, you don't have a valid argument in this department.
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User Review - Kathleen O'Neal - GoodreadsThis fascinating anthology explores issues affecting bisexual and transgender people (and the way in which these two categories intersect in the lives of many queer folks). One of the better books about these two important topics I have read so far. Read full review
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Page 9 - ... act" is distinguished from performativity insofar as the latter consists in a reiteration of norms which precede, constrain, and exceed the performer and in that sense cannot be taken as the fabrication of the performer's "will" or "choice"; further, what is "performed" works to conceal, if not to disavow, what remains opaque, unconscious, unperformable.
Page 187 - You can dress as a femme one day and a butch the next. You can wear a crew-cut along with a skirt. Wearing high heels during the day does not mean you're a femme at night, passive in bed, or closeted on the job."19 Seen in this light, fashion becomes an assertion of personal freedom as well as political choice.
Page 81 - If the state and the legal system have an interest in maintaining a two-party sexual system, they are in defiance of nature. For biologically speaking, there are many gradations running from female to male; and depending on how one calls the shots, one can argue that along that spectrum lie at least five sexes - and perhaps even more."3 The right to physical ambiguity and contradiction are surgically and hormonally denied to newborn intersexual infants who fall between the "poles
Page 184 - The replication of heterosexual constructs in non-heterosexual frames brings into relief the utterly constructed status of the so-called heterosexual original. Thus, gay is to straight not as copy is to original, but, rather, as copy is to copy. The parodic repetition of "the original...
Page 45 - While appearing to encompass a wider choice of love objects, he actually becomes a product of abject con-fusion; his self-image is that of an overgrown young adolescent whose ability to differentiate one form of sexuality from another has never developed. He lacks above all a sense of identity, a feeling of group identification.
Page 271 - ... The individual is not to be conceived as a sort of elementary nucleus, a primitive atom, a multiple and inert material on which power comes to fasten or against which it happens to strike, and in so doing subdues or crushes individuals.
Page 79 - Here's how this one works: we're taught that we are literally sick, that we have an illness that can be diagnosed and maybe cured. As a result of the medicalization of our condition, transsexuals must see therapists in order to receive the medical seal of approval required to proceed with any gender reassignment surgery. Now, once we get to the doctor, we're told we'll be cured if we become members of one gender or another. We're told not to divulge our transsexual status, except in select cases...
Page 184 - presence" of so-called heterosexual conventions within homosexual contexts as well as the proliferation of specifically gay discourses of sexual difference, as in the case of "butch" and "femme" as historical identities of sexual style, cannot be explained as chimerical representations of originally heterosexual identities. And neither can they be understood as the pernicious insistence of heterosexist constructs within gay sexuality and identity. The repetition of heterosexual constructs within...
Page 41 - Hart's transformation from female to male "illustrates only too well one extreme to which an intelligent, aspiring Lesbian in early twentieth-century America might be driven by her own. ..acceptance of society's condemnation of women-loving women." That I believe Booth to be the better judge of Hart's character means nothing; I am but a former whore, and Katz an honorable man. Hart's own psychiatrist, Dr. J. Allen Gilbert, wrote of her in 1920, "She is a man. And if society would...
Page 5 - Feinberg's work on trans liberation as a political movement "capable of fighting for justice" must be read against this background.18 This movement, on Feinberg's account, includes "masculine females and feminine males, cross-dressers, transsexual men and women, intersexuals born on the anatomical sweep between female and male, gender-blenders, many other sex and gender-variant people, and our significant others" (1998, 5). Indeed, in the short "portraits...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others Volume 3 of Journal of bisexuality |
| Authors | Jonathan Alexander, Karen Yescavage |
| Editors | Jonathan Alexander, Karen Yescavage |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1560232870, 9781560232872 |
| Length | 298 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / Human Sexuality SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction Social Science / Gay Studies Social Science / Gender Studies |
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