Eric Plemons
Biographic Data
| ID | 103711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Plemons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Plemons |
| SIGNATURE | PLEMONS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7905-1884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gênero, Etnicidade E Incorporação Transgênero
A Cirurgia de Feminização Facial (CFF) é um conjunto de procedimentos ósseos e teciduais moles desenvolvido para feminilizar os rostos de mulheres transgêneros. Na avaliação cirúrgica, características faciais particulares são identificadas como "específicas ao sexo" e marcadas para tal intervenção. Porém, essas características não exibem traços "masculinos" ou "femininos" apenas; elas são complexamente recortadas por morfologias de classificação …
Centering Transgender Individuals in Forensic Anthropology and Expanding Binary Sex Estimation in Casework and Research
Due to disproportionate violence impacting the transgender community, forensic anthropologists may encounter the remains of trans individuals; however, it is unknown how often trans individuals are represented in casework and if practitioners have sufficient knowledge about trans bodies. After contextualizing forensically relevant demographics for the trans community, this study uses survey data of forensic anthropologists to critically explore t…
Barry Reay, Trans America
Barry Reay, Trans America: A Counter-History Barry Reay, Trans America: A Counter-History.Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 317. £17.99. Pbk. ISBN 978-1-5095-1179-2. Eric Plemons Eric Plemons School of Anthropology, University of Arizona E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2021, Pages 339–340, https://doi…
Stonewall Mythology
Can a Transgender Body Be the Body of the Nation
Gender, Ethnicity, and Transgender Embodiment
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue procedures intended to feminize the faces of transgender women. In the surgical evaluation, particular facial features are identified as 'sex specific' and targeted for intervention as such. But those features do not exhibit 'maleness' or 'femaleness' alone; they are complexly entwined with morphologies of ethnic classification. Based on clinical observation, I show how the desire…
A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist
Since 2014, public and private insurance coverage for transgender Americans' surgical care has increased exponentially. Training clinicians and equipping institutions to meet the surge in demand has not been as rapid. Through ethnographic research at a surgical workshop focused on trans- genital reconstruction and in a U.S. hospital working to grow its transgender health program, this article shows that effects of the decades-long insurance exclu…
HHS Transgender Proposal a Shabby Costume
Facial gender confirmation surgery—review of the literature and recommendations for Version 8 of the WPATH Standards of Care
Facial gender confirmation surgery (FGCS), also popularly known and referred to in the scientific literature as facial feminization surgery (FFS), was previously treated as a collection of aesthetic procedures complementing other aspects of gender-confirming surgery. Recent literature on quality-of-life outcomes following FGCS has supported the substantial impact these procedures have on overall well-being and reduction of psychosocial sequelae i…
Transforming Transgender Medicine in the US Prompts Questions of its Aims
Formations of Femininity
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgical procedures intended to feminize the faces of trans- women in order to make their identities as women recognizable to others. In this article, I explore how the identification of facial femininity was negotiated in two FFS surgeons' practices. One committed to the metrics of normal skeletal form and the other to aspirational aesthetics of individual optimiza…
Anatomical Authorities
American feminist health activists in the 1970s created representations of genital anatomy intended to replace the abstracted images of biomedicine's 'modest witness,' with what Michelle Murphy has called the 'immodest witness,' authority explicitly derived from personal and embodied experience. Decades later, a feminist publication in the tradition of the immodest witness called Femalia was adopted into the practice of an American surgeon specia…
It Is As It Does
Description of sex difference as prescription for sex change
This article explores the research project that led to the development of facial feminization surgery, a set of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgical procedures intended to feminize the faces of male-to-female trans- women. Conducted by a pioneering surgeon in the mid-1980s, this research consisted of three steps: (1) assessments of sexual differences of the skull taken from early 20th-century physical anthropology, (2) the application of …
The Surgical Suite
A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist
Since 2014, public and private insurance coverage for transgender Americans' surgical care has increased exponentially. Training clinicians and equipping institutions to meet the surge in demand has not been as rapid. Through ethnographic research at a surgical workshop focused on trans- genital reconstruction and in a U.S. hospital working to grow its transgender health program, this article shows that effects of the decades-long insurance exclu…
Description of sex difference as prescription for sex change
This article explores the research project that led to the development of facial feminization surgery, a set of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgical procedures intended to feminize the faces of male-to-female trans- women. Conducted by a pioneering surgeon in the mid-1980s, this research consisted of three steps: (1) assessments of sexual differences of the skull taken from early 20th-century physical anthropology, (2) the application of …
Centering Transgender Individuals in Forensic Anthropology and Expanding Binary Sex Estimation in Casework and Research
Due to disproportionate violence impacting the transgender community, forensic anthropologists may encounter the remains of trans individuals; however, it is unknown how often trans individuals are represented in casework and if practitioners have sufficient knowledge about trans bodies. After contextualizing forensically relevant demographics for the trans community, this study uses survey data of forensic anthropologists to critically explore t…
Facial gender confirmation surgery—review of the literature and recommendations for Version 8 of the WPATH Standards of Care
Facial gender confirmation surgery (FGCS), also popularly known and referred to in the scientific literature as facial feminization surgery (FFS), was previously treated as a collection of aesthetic procedures complementing other aspects of gender-confirming surgery. Recent literature on quality-of-life outcomes following FGCS has supported the substantial impact these procedures have on overall well-being and reduction of psychosocial sequelae i…
Anatomical Authorities
American feminist health activists in the 1970s created representations of genital anatomy intended to replace the abstracted images of biomedicine's 'modest witness,' with what Michelle Murphy has called the 'immodest witness,' authority explicitly derived from personal and embodied experience. Decades later, a feminist publication in the tradition of the immodest witness called Femalia was adopted into the practice of an American surgeon specia…
Gender, Ethnicity, and Transgender Embodiment
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue procedures intended to feminize the faces of transgender women. In the surgical evaluation, particular facial features are identified as 'sex specific' and targeted for intervention as such. But those features do not exhibit 'maleness' or 'femaleness' alone; they are complexly entwined with morphologies of ethnic classification. Based on clinical observation, I show how the desire…
Formations of Femininity
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgical procedures intended to feminize the faces of trans- women in order to make their identities as women recognizable to others. In this article, I explore how the identification of facial femininity was negotiated in two FFS surgeons' practices. One committed to the metrics of normal skeletal form and the other to aspirational aesthetics of individual optimiza…
The Surgical Suite
It Is As It Does
Description of sex difference as prescription for sex change
This article explores the research project that led to the development of facial feminization surgery, a set of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgical procedures intended to feminize the faces of male-to-female trans- women. Conducted by a pioneering surgeon in the mid-1980s, this research consisted of three steps: (1) assessments of sexual differences of the skull taken from early 20th-century physical anthropology, (2) the application of …
Anatomical Authorities
American feminist health activists in the 1970s created representations of genital anatomy intended to replace the abstracted images of biomedicine's 'modest witness,' with what Michelle Murphy has called the 'immodest witness,' authority explicitly derived from personal and embodied experience. Decades later, a feminist publication in the tradition of the immodest witness called Femalia was adopted into the practice of an American surgeon specia…
Facial gender confirmation surgery—review of the literature and recommendations for Version 8 of the WPATH Standards of Care
Facial gender confirmation surgery (FGCS), also popularly known and referred to in the scientific literature as facial feminization surgery (FFS), was previously treated as a collection of aesthetic procedures complementing other aspects of gender-confirming surgery. Recent literature on quality-of-life outcomes following FGCS has supported the substantial impact these procedures have on overall well-being and reduction of psychosocial sequelae i…
Transforming Transgender Medicine in the US Prompts Questions of its Aims
Formations of Femininity
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue reconstructive surgical procedures intended to feminize the faces of trans- women in order to make their identities as women recognizable to others. In this article, I explore how the identification of facial femininity was negotiated in two FFS surgeons' practices. One committed to the metrics of normal skeletal form and the other to aspirational aesthetics of individual optimiza…
HHS Transgender Proposal a Shabby Costume
Stonewall Mythology
Can a Transgender Body Be the Body of the Nation
Gender, Ethnicity, and Transgender Embodiment
Facial feminization surgery (FFS) is a set of bone and soft tissue procedures intended to feminize the faces of transgender women. In the surgical evaluation, particular facial features are identified as 'sex specific' and targeted for intervention as such. But those features do not exhibit 'maleness' or 'femaleness' alone; they are complexly entwined with morphologies of ethnic classification. Based on clinical observation, I show how the desire…
A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist
Since 2014, public and private insurance coverage for transgender Americans' surgical care has increased exponentially. Training clinicians and equipping institutions to meet the surge in demand has not been as rapid. Through ethnographic research at a surgical workshop focused on trans- genital reconstruction and in a U.S. hospital working to grow its transgender health program, this article shows that effects of the decades-long insurance exclu…
Barry Reay, Trans America
Barry Reay, Trans America: A Counter-History Barry Reay, Trans America: A Counter-History.Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 317. £17.99. Pbk. ISBN 978-1-5095-1179-2. Eric Plemons Eric Plemons School of Anthropology, University of Arizona E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2021, Pages 339–340, https://doi…
Centering Transgender Individuals in Forensic Anthropology and Expanding Binary Sex Estimation in Casework and Research
Due to disproportionate violence impacting the transgender community, forensic anthropologists may encounter the remains of trans individuals; however, it is unknown how often trans individuals are represented in casework and if practitioners have sufficient knowledge about trans bodies. After contextualizing forensically relevant demographics for the trans community, this study uses survey data of forensic anthropologists to critically explore t…
Gênero, Etnicidade E Incorporação Transgênero
A Cirurgia de Feminização Facial (CFF) é um conjunto de procedimentos ósseos e teciduais moles desenvolvido para feminilizar os rostos de mulheres transgêneros. Na avaliação cirúrgica, características faciais particulares são identificadas como "específicas ao sexo" e marcadas para tal intervenção. Porém, essas características não exibem traços "masculinos" ou "femininos" apenas; elas são complexamente recortadas por morfologias de classificação …
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Transgender (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (5 works) · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues (5 works)