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Summary:

"As a broad category of identity, "transgender" has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum. Against the backdrop of the Sinophone Pacific, Chiang argues that the concept of transgender identity must be rethought beyond a purely Western frame. At the same time, he challenges China-centrism in the study of East Asian gender and sexual configurations. Chiang brings Sinophone studies to bear on trans theory to deconstruct the ways in which sexual normativity and Chinese imperialism have been produced through one another. Grounded in an eclectic range of sources-from the archives of sexology to press reports of intersexuality, films about castration, and records of social activism-this book reorients anti-transphobic inquiry at the crossroads of area studies, medical humanities, and queer theory. Timely and provocative, Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific highlights the urgency of interdisciplinary knowledge in debates over the promise and future of human diversity"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Chiang, Howard, 1983- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific [by Chiang, H.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Transtopia in the sinophone Pacific [by Chiang, H.] (New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] — ISBN 9780231549172; LCCN 2020032450)

Subjects:

Transsexuals — China — History

Transgender people — China — History

Gender nonconformity — China — History

Gender identity — China — History

Queer theory

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

HQ77.95.C6 C45 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780231549172 (electronic bk.)
0231549172 (electronic bk.)
9780231190961 [Invalid]
0231190964 [Invalid]
9780231190978 [Invalid]
0231190972 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1248760259

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6185469 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16812805