TY  - GEN
T1  - Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
A1  - Chiang, Howard, 1983-
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1159891066
AB  - "As a broad category of identity, "transgender" has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum. Against the backdrop of the Sinophone Pacific, Chiang argues that the concept of transgender identity must be rethought beyond a purely Western frame. At the same time, he challenges China-centrism in the study of East Asian gender and sexual configurations. Chiang brings Sinophone studies to bear on trans theory to deconstruct the ways in which sexual normativity and Chinese imperialism have been produced through one another. Grounded in an eclectic range of sources-from the archives of sexology to press reports of intersexuality, films about castration, and records of social activism-this book reorients anti-transphobic inquiry at the crossroads of area studies, medical humanities, and queer theory. Timely and provocative, Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific highlights the urgency of interdisciplinary knowledge in debates over the promise and future of human diversity"--
OP  - 359
CN  - HQ77.95.C6 C45 2021
SN  - 9780231549172
SN  - 0231549172
SN  - 9780231190961
SN  - 0231190964
SN  - 9780231190978
SN  - 0231190972
KW  - Transgender people : China : History.
KW  - Transgender people : China : Identity.
KW  - Gender nonconformity : China : History.
KW  - Gender identity : China : History.
KW  - Queer theory.
KW  - Transsexuels : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Transgenres : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Transgenrisme : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Identité de genre : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Théorie queer.
KW  - Transgenres : Chine : Identité.
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China.
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Gender nonconformity
KW  - Queer theory
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - Transsexuals
KW  - China
KW  - Gender diversity.
KW  - Asian transgender people.
KW  - Transsexual people.
KW  - Transgender people.
KW  - Gender minorities.
KW  - LGBTQ+ people.
KW  - Transgenderism.
KW  - Gender identity.
KW  - Gender.
KW  - Theories.
KW  - Medicalization.
KW  - Medical care.
KW  - History
ER  -