Patricia Elliot
Biographic Data
| ID | 90565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Elliot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Elliot |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIOT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transphobia as Symptom
Although today most queer and feminist theorists advocate valuing transgender persons, radical lesbian feminist Sheila Jeffreys contests that position, reviving a much older debate that actively disparages transwomen. The authors' intervention in this debate is to investigate the meaning and function of transphobia in Jeffreys's text through employing the psychoanalytic method of a symptomatic reading. This psychoanalytic reading enables the auth…
Conclusion
This chapter presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book aims critically to engage with contested sites in the field of transgender theory as it interacts with feminist and queer theory. It argues that examining the multiple and various ways in which these complex bodies of knowledge encounter, challenge, and inform each other entails confronting the rifts that mark those encounters as…
Feminist Embattlement on the Field of Trans
This chapter explores the relationship of non-trans feminists to trainpersons constitutes a relatively new crisis in the way that differences with others are addressed, differences within what gets considered the collective identity of feminism and differences in understandings of sexual politics. It offers a specific example of what Sandy Stone calls the rage of radical feminist theories. The chapter discusses the author&s;s view by Kimberly Nix…
Desire and the “(Un)Becoming Other” 1
This chapter discusses the Halberstam&s;s and Nobles emphasis on the unintelligible and incoherent as possible ways to affirm the alterity of trans identities. It explores the limits of that position in terms of its ability to transform the unethical practice of securing coherent and intelligible selves for non-trans bodies by abjecting trans bodies. The chapter examines the alternative ethical practice, developed by Kristeva, Butler, Shildrick, …
Revaluing Gender Diversity Beyond the Ts/Tg Hierarchy
This chapter begins with Judith Butler&s;s discussion of the diagnosis of gender identity disorder before turning to Judith Halberstam&s;s intervention in the border wars between butch and female-to-male transexual (Ftm) identities. It examines two examples from the transgender queer perspective that appear to substantiate Viviane Namaste&s;s critique and discusses strategies for challenging the rift. Without promoting what Namaste calls transsex…
Risking the Unfamiliar
This chapter explores two alternative accounts of transsexual identity that addresses both its intelligible and unintelligible aspects. It argues that Devor&s;s discourse of sameness, while it is useful in comparing the gender dysphoria of transmen with the widespread unease non-trans women experience with people&s;s bodies. The chapter argues that Prossers discourse of difference is better suited to elucidating the complexity of trans embodiment…
Still Not in Our Genes
This chapter addresses some of the arguments for and against biological theories as found in scientific studies on transsexuality, materialist feminist re-valuations of biology, and queer theorist&s;s objections to those theories. It focuses on the structural similarities that exist in arguments for and against attributing either sexual preference or gender identity to genes or hormones. The chapter examines debates surrounding Bailey&s;s controv…
Introduction Exploring Rifts in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theories
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the key rifts, which includes: divergent conceptions of trans subjects held by non-trans feminists; divergent and hierarchical relationships between transgender and transsexual persons; divergent and conflicting claims about gender intelligibility; divergent emphases on sameness and difference in theorizing trans experience…
Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory
Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domains of women's studies, sexuality, gender and transgender studies, Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory provides a critical analysis of key texts and theories, engaging in a dialogue with prominent theorists of transgendered identity, embodiment an…
Psychoanalysis
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Engaging Trans Debates on Gender Variance
Transgender studies has emerged from a series of debates that have produced internal tensions, border wars and rifts. The rift I examine here concerns the politically volatile questions of how to think about and how to live gender variance. While some feminist, queer and transgender theorists have come to celebrate the critical potential of the allegedly more transgressive expressions of trans theories and lives, many transsexual theorists read t…
Film Review
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Transsexual Embodiment
Theories of transsexuality developed by cultural theorists tend to ignore the psychic dimension of subjectivity. This article draws on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, transsexual and transgender theory, and autobiographical narratives to reflect on what ought to be included in a psychoanalytically informed theory of transsexuality. Highlighting the work of Jay Prosser (1998), I discuss the importance of sexed embodiment, the problem of sociopolit…
Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment
Research Article| April 01 1998 Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment: Promising Queer Politics? Patricia Elliot; Patricia Elliot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Katrina Roen Katrina Roen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1998) 4 (2): 231–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-4-2-231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Elliot, Katrina Ro…
Politics, Identity, and Social Change
This essay engages in a debate with Nancy Fraser and Dorothy Leland concerning the contribution of Lacanian-inspired psychoanalytic feminism to feminist theory and practice. Teresa Brennan's analysis of the impasse in psychoanalysis and feminism and Judith Butler's proposal for a radically democratic feminism are employed in examining the issues at stake. I argue, with Brennan, that the impasse confronting psychoanalysis and feminism is the resul…
More Thinking About Gender
Nelson argues the best we can hope for in a nonsexist society is to revalue those feminine qualities that have previously been devalued. I argue that those qualities are the result of a sexist construction of gender categories, and that a nonsexist society would have no reason to preserve them
From Mastery to Analysis
Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment
Research Article| April 01 1998 Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment: Promising Queer Politics? Patricia Elliot; Patricia Elliot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Katrina Roen Katrina Roen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1998) 4 (2): 231–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-4-2-231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Elliot, Katrina Ro…
Engaging Trans Debates on Gender Variance
Transgender studies has emerged from a series of debates that have produced internal tensions, border wars and rifts. The rift I examine here concerns the politically volatile questions of how to think about and how to live gender variance. While some feminist, queer and transgender theorists have come to celebrate the critical potential of the allegedly more transgressive expressions of trans theories and lives, many transsexual theorists read t…
Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory
Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domains of women's studies, sexuality, gender and transgender studies, Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory provides a critical analysis of key texts and theories, engaging in a dialogue with prominent theorists of transgendered identity, embodiment an…
Transphobia as Symptom
Although today most queer and feminist theorists advocate valuing transgender persons, radical lesbian feminist Sheila Jeffreys contests that position, reviving a much older debate that actively disparages transwomen. The authors' intervention in this debate is to investigate the meaning and function of transphobia in Jeffreys's text through employing the psychoanalytic method of a symptomatic reading. This psychoanalytic reading enables the auth…
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Transsexual Embodiment
Theories of transsexuality developed by cultural theorists tend to ignore the psychic dimension of subjectivity. This article draws on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, transsexual and transgender theory, and autobiographical narratives to reflect on what ought to be included in a psychoanalytically informed theory of transsexuality. Highlighting the work of Jay Prosser (1998), I discuss the importance of sexed embodiment, the problem of sociopolit…
Psychoanalysis
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
From Mastery to Analysis
More Thinking About Gender
Nelson argues the best we can hope for in a nonsexist society is to revalue those feminine qualities that have previously been devalued. I argue that those qualities are the result of a sexist construction of gender categories, and that a nonsexist society would have no reason to preserve them
Politics, Identity, and Social Change
This essay engages in a debate with Nancy Fraser and Dorothy Leland concerning the contribution of Lacanian-inspired psychoanalytic feminism to feminist theory and practice. Teresa Brennan's analysis of the impasse in psychoanalysis and feminism and Judith Butler's proposal for a radically democratic feminism are employed in examining the issues at stake. I argue, with Brennan, that the impasse confronting psychoanalysis and feminism is the resul…
Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment
Research Article| April 01 1998 Transgenderism and the Question of Embodiment: Promising Queer Politics? Patricia Elliot; Patricia Elliot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Katrina Roen Katrina Roen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1998) 4 (2): 231–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-4-2-231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Patricia Elliot, Katrina Ro…
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Transsexual Embodiment
Theories of transsexuality developed by cultural theorists tend to ignore the psychic dimension of subjectivity. This article draws on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, transsexual and transgender theory, and autobiographical narratives to reflect on what ought to be included in a psychoanalytically informed theory of transsexuality. Highlighting the work of Jay Prosser (1998), I discuss the importance of sexed embodiment, the problem of sociopolit…
Film Review
Engaging Trans Debates on Gender Variance
Transgender studies has emerged from a series of debates that have produced internal tensions, border wars and rifts. The rift I examine here concerns the politically volatile questions of how to think about and how to live gender variance. While some feminist, queer and transgender theorists have come to celebrate the critical potential of the allegedly more transgressive expressions of trans theories and lives, many transsexual theorists read t…
Psychoanalysis
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Conclusion
This chapter presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book aims critically to engage with contested sites in the field of transgender theory as it interacts with feminist and queer theory. It argues that examining the multiple and various ways in which these complex bodies of knowledge encounter, challenge, and inform each other entails confronting the rifts that mark those encounters as…
Feminist Embattlement on the Field of Trans
This chapter explores the relationship of non-trans feminists to trainpersons constitutes a relatively new crisis in the way that differences with others are addressed, differences within what gets considered the collective identity of feminism and differences in understandings of sexual politics. It offers a specific example of what Sandy Stone calls the rage of radical feminist theories. The chapter discusses the author&s;s view by Kimberly Nix…
Desire and the “(Un)Becoming Other” 1
This chapter discusses the Halberstam&s;s and Nobles emphasis on the unintelligible and incoherent as possible ways to affirm the alterity of trans identities. It explores the limits of that position in terms of its ability to transform the unethical practice of securing coherent and intelligible selves for non-trans bodies by abjecting trans bodies. The chapter examines the alternative ethical practice, developed by Kristeva, Butler, Shildrick, …
Revaluing Gender Diversity Beyond the Ts/Tg Hierarchy
This chapter begins with Judith Butler&s;s discussion of the diagnosis of gender identity disorder before turning to Judith Halberstam&s;s intervention in the border wars between butch and female-to-male transexual (Ftm) identities. It examines two examples from the transgender queer perspective that appear to substantiate Viviane Namaste&s;s critique and discusses strategies for challenging the rift. Without promoting what Namaste calls transsex…
Risking the Unfamiliar
This chapter explores two alternative accounts of transsexual identity that addresses both its intelligible and unintelligible aspects. It argues that Devor&s;s discourse of sameness, while it is useful in comparing the gender dysphoria of transmen with the widespread unease non-trans women experience with people&s;s bodies. The chapter argues that Prossers discourse of difference is better suited to elucidating the complexity of trans embodiment…
Still Not in Our Genes
This chapter addresses some of the arguments for and against biological theories as found in scientific studies on transsexuality, materialist feminist re-valuations of biology, and queer theorist&s;s objections to those theories. It focuses on the structural similarities that exist in arguments for and against attributing either sexual preference or gender identity to genes or hormones. The chapter examines debates surrounding Bailey&s;s controv…
Introduction Exploring Rifts in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theories
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the key rifts, which includes: divergent conceptions of trans subjects held by non-trans feminists; divergent and hierarchical relationships between transgender and transsexual persons; divergent and conflicting claims about gender intelligibility; divergent emphases on sameness and difference in theorizing trans experience…
Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory
Transgender studies is a heterogeneous site of debate that is marked by tensions, border wars, and rifts both within the field and among feminist and queer theorists. Intersecting the domains of women's studies, sexuality, gender and transgender studies, Debates in Transgender, Queer, and Feminist Theory provides a critical analysis of key texts and theories, engaging in a dialogue with prominent theorists of transgendered identity, embodiment an…
Transphobia as Symptom
Although today most queer and feminist theorists advocate valuing transgender persons, radical lesbian feminist Sheila Jeffreys contests that position, reviving a much older debate that actively disparages transwomen. The authors' intervention in this debate is to investigate the meaning and function of transphobia in Jeffreys's text through employing the psychoanalytic method of a symptomatic reading. This psychoanalytic reading enables the auth…
Sociology (8 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Transgender (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)