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Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment

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Availability:In StockContributor:Aren Z. AizuraSeries:Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam andPublish date:2018-11-23Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478001560ISBN-10:1478001569UPC:9781478001560Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Ethnic StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCNGPEGJJV
The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white, global citizen. In so doing, he shows how understandings of travel and mobility depend on the historical architectures of colonialism and contemporary patterns of global consumption and labor.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478001560ISBN-10:1478001569UPC:9781478001560Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Ethnic StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCNGPEGJJV
Aren Z. Aizura is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and coeditor of The Transgender Studies Reader 2.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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