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A New Hope

The Psychic Life of Passing

Bibliographic Data

ID5843328
AuthorsC Riley Snorton (corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume24
Issue3
Pages77-92
Publication date2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01046.x
OpenAlexW2122242306
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited17

In an examination of the psychological aspect of passing, this essay challenges Sandy Stone's conceptualization and subsequent request for transsexuals to forego the act. Employing an auto-ethnographical approach, this essay contends that considering the "psychic" dimensions of passing requires different, and more hopeful, articulations about transsexual bodies, such that gendered and racialized transsexual bodies are produced not simply in terms of social reading and physical embodiment, but also through psychic affirmation and disavowal

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Unique citing works31
Citations per year2,38
Citation span2013 - 2026 (14)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 31

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