Swarr Sex in Transition

Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4408-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Argues that South Africa’s apartheid system of racial segregation relied on an unexamined but interrelated system of sexed oppression that was at once both rigid and flexible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swarr, Amanda Lock

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Transition Matters

1. Prescribing Gender and Enforcing Sex

2. Medical Experimentation and the Raced Incongruence of Gender

3. Redefining Transition through Necropolitics

4. Stabane, Raced Intersexuality and Same-Sex Relationships in Soweto

5. Performing Hierarchies and Kinky Politics: Drag in South Africa's Transition

Conclusion: “Extra-Transsexual” Meanings and Transgender Politics

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Lock Swarr is Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the coeditor (with Richa Nagar) of Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, also published by SUNY Press.