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Sex in Transition
2012
Overview
Honorable Mention, 2013 Ruth Benedict Book Prize presented
by the Association for Queer Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2014
Distinguished Book Award presented by the Section on Sexualities of
the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Sylvia
Rivera Award in Transgender Studies presented by the Center for Gay
and Lesbian Studies Sex in Transition explores
the lives of those who undermine the man/woman binary, exposing the
gendered contradictions of apartheid and the transition to
democracy in South Africa. In this context, gender liminality-a way
to describe spaces between common conceptions of \"man\" and
\"woman\"-is expressed by South Africans who identify as transgender,
transsexual, transvestite, intersex, lesbian, gay, and/or eschew
these categories altogether. This book is the first academic
exploration of challenges to the man/woman binary on the African
continent and brings together gender, queer, and postcolonial
studies to question the stability of sex. It examines issues
including why transsexuals' sex transitions were encouraged under
apartheid and illegal during the political transition to democracy
and how butch lesbians and drag queens in urban townships reshape
race and gender. Sex in Transition challenges the dominance of
theoretical frameworks based in the global North, drawing on
fifteen years of research in South Africa to define the parameters
of a new transnational transgender and sexuality studies.
Publisher
SUNY Press,State University of New York Press
Subject
Area Studies : African Studies
/ Gender
/ Gender and Sexuality : Gender Studies
/ Gender and Sexuality : Queer Studies
/ Gender identity -- South Africa
/ History
/ Intersexuality -- South Africa
/ Sex
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
ISBN
1438444087, 9781438444086, 1438444079, 9781438444079, 1438444060, 9781438444062
