Plemons The Look of a Woman

Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7270-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Eric Plemons explores the ways in which facial feminization surgery is changing the ways in which trans- women are not only perceived of as women, but in the ways it is altering the project of surgical sex reassignment and the understandings of what sex means.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plemons, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Chirurgie Plastische, Rekonstruktive & Kosmetische Chirurgie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. On Origins 21
Interlude. The Procedures 39
2. Femininity in the Clinic 43
Interlude. Celebrate! 67
3. Cutting as Caring 71
4. Recognition and Refusal 89
Interlude. My Adam's Apple 109
5. The Operating Room 113
6. And After 135
Conclusion 151
Notes 157
References 169
Index 185

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Plemons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.