The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia Hegarty Benjamin
The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia Hegarty Benjamin In The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia's trans…
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The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia Hegarty Benjamin
In The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia's trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public sphere. As historical brokers between gender as a technological system of classifying human difference and state citizenship, warias shaped the contours of modern selfhood even while being positioned as nonconforming within it. Combining historical and ethnographic research, Hegarty traces the participation of warias in visual and bodily technologies, ranging from psychiatry and medical transsexuality to photography and feminine beauty.The concept of development deployed by the modern Indonesian state relies on naturalizing the binary of male and female.
The Made-Up State illuminates warias as
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