Spider city sex

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4884437
AutoresEva Hayward (a Women's Studies, Duke University , Durham , NC , USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume20
Fascículo3
Páginas225-251
Data de publicação2010-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWomen & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0740770x.2010.529244
OpenAlexW1987184997
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas37
Referências citadas33

In her essay “Dungeon Intimacies” (2005) Susan Stryker offers “autoethnography” as a methodology for theorizing embodiment and politics. She invites us to see how corporeality situates more generalizable knowledges. Following Stryker, this essay explores male-to-female transsexual transitioning in an urban setting, San Francisco's Tenderloin, through bodily experience. These accounts might appear as drifts in personal recollection, but they are meant to suggest, however speculatively, and without aiming toward universalizing, the sensuous transaction between body and environment. Apprehending the interplay of sensation and place, I suggest, requires an attention to streets, buildings, and sidewalks, but also other non-humans. Guided by figural and literal spiders and the effects of hormone replacement therapy in the form of horse urine (Premarin), this essay proffers that transsexuality is relational in terms of social, economic, and political milieus as well as spatial, affective, and speciated registers

Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Database transaction · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Transgender · Transsexual · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology