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Section 7: Being There: The (Im)material Locations of Trans-Phenomena
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Chapter 31: Between Surveillance and Liberation: The Lives of Cross-Dressed Male Sex Workers in Early Postwar Japan - Todd Henry
Further Reading
McLelland, M. (2003). Western Intersections, Eastern Approximations: Living More “Like Oneself”: Transgender Identities and Sexualities in Japan. Journal of Bisexuality, 3(3/4), 205–230.
McLelland, M. (2005). Genders, Transgenders, and Sexualities in Japan (Vol. 1). New York: Routledge.
Mitsuhashi, J. (2006). The Transgender World in Contemporary Japan: The Male to Female Cross-Dressers’ Community in Shinjuku. Trans. Kazumi Hasegawa. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 7(2), 202–227.
Chapter 32: An Ethics of Transsexual Difference: Luce Irigaray and the Place of Sexual Undecideability - Gayle Salamon
Further Reading
Irigaray, L. (1985). Speculum of the Other Woman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Renold, E. & Ringrose, J. (2012). Phallic Girls?: Girls’ Negotiation of Phallogocentric Power. Queer Masculinities, 21, 47–67.
Chapter 33: Touching Gender: Abjection and the Hygienic Imagination - Sheila Cavanaugh
Further Reading
Crawford, L. (2011). Transgender Movements and One Way to Beat a Straight Flush: Building an Art of Trans-Washrooms. In T. Cotten (Ed.), Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition. New York: Routledge, 59–75.
Gershenson, O. & Penner, B. (Eds.). (2009). Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Kogan, T. S. (2007). Sex-Separation in Public Restrooms: Law, Architecture, and Gender. Michigan Journal of Gender and Law, 14(1). 1-57.
Molotch, H. & Noren, L. (2010). Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing. New York: New York University Press.
Links
Gender Neutral Bathroom Directory
http://safe2pee.org/
Chapter 34: Perverse Citizenship: Divas, Marginality, and Participation in “Loca-Lization” - Marcia Ochoa
Further Reading
Álvarez Rosales, N. & Pérez Pérez, C. (2009). Identidad de género en transformistas: Un estudio cualitativo-exploratorio. Límite: revista de filosofía y psicología, (20), 123–152.
Jayme, J. G. (2001). Travestis, transformistas, drag-queens, transexuais: personagens e máscaras no cotidiano de Belo Horizonte e Lisboa. Diss. Tezse de doutorado apresentada ao Departamento de Antropologia do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas. Campinas, Unicamp.
Ochoa, M. (2005). Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela. Diss. Stanford University.
Ochoa, M. (2011). Pasarelas y perolones: mediaciones transformistas en la Avenida Libertador de Caracas. Íconos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, (39), 123–142.
Serrano, J. F. & Fernando, J. (1999). Cuerpos construidos para el espectáculo: transformistas, strippers y drag Queens. In M. Viveros & G. Garay A (Eds.), Cuerpo, diferencias y desigualdades. Bogotá: CES, 185–198.
Chapter 35: Thinking Figurations Otherwise: Reframing Dominant Knowledges of Sex and Gender Variance in Latin America - Vek Lewis
Further Reading
Asencio, M. (2011). “Locas,” Respect, and Masculinity Gender Conformity in Migrant Puerto Rican Gay Masculinities. Gender & Society, 25(3), 335–354.
Lewis, V. (2006). Sociological Work on Transgender in Latin America: Some Considerations. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 12(2), 77–90.
Subero, G. E. (2009). The Silent Scream of the Locas in Mariposas en el andamio. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28(2), 266–283.
Video
Clip from documentary about Brazilian travesti – Boys From Brazil: http://youtu.be/Y8A4cQ_hO6I
Full documentary here: http://youtu.be/O47rYEeumCc