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Title: Unseen Genders

Unseen Genders

Beyond the Binaries

by Felicity Haynes (Volume editor) Tarquam McKenna (Volume editor)
©2001 Textbook 248 Pages
Education
Series: Eruptions: New Feminism Across the Disciplines, Volume 12

Summary

Transsexuals, homosexuals, lesbians, cross dressers, and transgender and intersex persons share an invisibility in their performativities in, through, and across male or female stereotypes. This book explores the pathologizing effects of binary assumptions of sex and gender, of male and female. The first section of this book presents narratives from homosexuals, lesbians, cross dressers, transsexuals, and transgender and intersex persons from a range of cultures. The second addresses ways of recognizing these marginalized groups while the third suggests reconstructing gender theory beyond the binaries to allow celebration of multidimensional and contextual gender identities.

Details

Pages
248
Year
2001
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820450247
Language
English
Keywords
Homosexual Lesbian Cross dresser Intersex person Transsexual
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2001. 248 pp., 3 fig.

Biographical notes

Felicity Haynes (Volume editor) Tarquam McKenna (Volume editor)

The Editors: Felicity Haynes has written The Art of Argument (1987), The Ethical School (1998), and numerous articles in art education, gender studies, ethics, conceptual change, and philosophy for children. She lectures in philosophy of education and has been Dean of Education and Head of the Graduate School of Education at The University of Western Australia. She is founding Co-Director of The International Foundation for Androgynous Studies. Tarquam McKenna, a psychotherapist, lectures in drama and art therapy at Edith Cowan University and directs Playback Theatre. Qualified in education, drama, art therapy, and counseling, he is currently researching heteronormativity, rituals of exclusion for gay educators, and is also a Co-Director of The International Foundation for Androgynous Studies.

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