Imagining Transgender
Imagining Transgender Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Working as a…
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Imagining Transgender
Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during the late 1990s, David Valentine conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, bars, and clubs. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts.
Instead, they self-identified as "gay," a category of sexual rather than gendered identity and one rejected in turn by the activists who claimed these subjects as However, he found that many of those labeled "transgender" by activists did not know the term or resisted its use.
Imagining Transgender
Imagining Difference
Imagining Society
Imagining Sculpture
Imagining Imaging
Transgender Medicine
Imagining Asias
Re-Imagining Animation
Touching and Imagining
Imagining Queer Methods
Imagining the Balkans
Imagining the evident
Imagining the Divine
The Transgender Issue