Imagining Transgender China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20043068
AutoresHoward Chiang (0000-0002-3658-3565, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Páginas3-19
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoTransgender China (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137082503_1
OpenAlexW2488306520
ISBN9781137082503
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas62

Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld's Die Transvestiten (1910) and anthropologist Esther Newton's Mother Camp (1972) exemplify a rich tradition of scholarly thought and analysis on gender variance in the twentieth century.1 Nonetheless, it was only in the last two decades that an explosion of academic interest in transgender topics became ever more pronounced. In the 1970s and 1980s, social, political, cultural, and intellectual trends paved the way for some transgender people to increasingly distance themselves from the women's movement and the gay and lesbian movement.2 The emergence of queer studies as an umbrella field in the decade following these developments cultivated the growth and maturation of transgender studies.3 Already in her seminal Gender Trouble (1990), philosopher Judith Butler used drag as a preeminent example to theorize the cultural performativity of gender, thereby reorienting women's studies beyond traditional concerns of feminist epistemology.4 In Female Masculinity (1998), cultural theorist Judith Halberstam recentered women's relationship to masculinity, revealing a long-neglected undercurrent of Anglo-American literature and film.5 Seven years later, the publication of In a Queer Time and Place (2005) enriched her problematization of the heteronormative alignment of sex and gender through the lens of subcultural practice.6 KeywordsFeminist EpistemologyQueer StudyGender TransgressionButch LesbianLesbian MovementThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Art · Lesbian · Literature · Masculinity · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Problematization · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Transgender · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cultural Studies · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law