Women's Studies 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lgbt, Leslie Feinberg, Donna Haraway
23 Nov 2016
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Transgender movement has become a core part of the fight for sexual and gender liberation. Transgendered subjects have achieved cultural representation in north america and europe (tv, films, novels) Issues sometimes echo that defined by lesbian and gay liberation, and some are unique to transgender experience. Movement away from the assigned gender at birth. It is the movement across a socially imposed boundary away from an unchosen starting place rather than any particular destination or mode of transition that best characterizes the concept of transgender". Transgender: refers to any and all kinds of variation from gender norms and expectations. Our culture always gets back to having two genders. Importance is the structure, legibility, binaries are satisfying to society. Transsexuality: only disorder" where you are asked to persist in the symptoms in order to be cured. Argued for rethinking of trans-narrative along medical lines. (example: trans people needing a cure)
