Second Skins Prosser Jay Professor University of Leeds
Second Skins Prosser Jay Professor University of Leeds Do we need bodies for sex? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in…
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Second Skins Prosser Jay Professor University of Leeds
Do we need bodies for sex? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Is gender in the head or in the body?
Showing how transsexuality's somatic transitions are spurred and enabled by the formal transitions of narrative, Prosser uncovers a narrative tradition for transsexual bodies. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies.In this stunning first extensive study of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Sex change is a plot--and thus appropriately transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors.
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